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Jul. 28th, 2009 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiery_ringCarlotta did, reluctantly, leave Harris a note before slipping out to get Teja.
She brings him through into the wood shed, hoping they can get out without being seen by anyone.
She brings him through into the wood shed, hoping they can get out without being seen by anyone.
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Date: 2009-07-30 07:57 pm (UTC)"My wife and I had two daughters, your cousins. The eldest is a little younger than you, but if you ever wanted some younger relatives to meet with... I'd understand if you don't want to see me but I thought you should know."
Carlotta looks up at him. She understands the story now. Her mother could never have got rid of the pull back to the circus, the pull that Carlotta feels every day. Michael's encouragement enabled her to escape, however selfishly intended it was.
"I forgive you." she says quietly, just like that. "Mum died in childbirth, I would have lost her either way. You meant to hurt Father, but you gave my mother the last thing she wanted and me the upbringing that I would never have gone without. I'm lucky; I've had the best of both worlds, the circus and an education. It angers me that you caused such pain to my father, but it sounds like you've been punished for that for sixteen years.
I'd like to meet my cousins, but you have to make peace with my father. I'm done sneaking around."
"I should hope so." says a man who just entered the cafe and has come up to the pair. Teja may recognise him as Carlotta's father.
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Date: 2009-07-30 08:24 pm (UTC)And gets ready to pounce, if necessary, if the brothers get into a physical brawl.
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Date: 2009-07-30 08:41 pm (UTC)They all go outside. Carlotta hesitates, and when her father isn't looking, ducks behind the cafe wall and climbs up the drainpipe. She peeps out from over the roof in time to see her father punch her uncle in the face.
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Date: 2009-07-30 08:56 pm (UTC)Carlotta is out of sight, and the brothers are fighting.
He steps back into the doorway, so the brawling men cannot see him, and looks around for Carlotta.
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Date: 2009-07-30 09:04 pm (UTC)"Stop it!" she shouts. "The past is past, you have to let go, you have to forgive! You're brothers, you're family, and no matter how different you are family is precious. I can forgive him, why can't you?"
Her father looks speechless, her uncle gets up.
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Date: 2009-07-30 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 09:14 pm (UTC)"Home, now!" he says, his voice calm but dangerous. "I won't hit him again."
Carlotta this time goes, and the brothers talk. Then they turn and go in opposite directions.
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Date: 2009-07-30 09:25 pm (UTC)He has his cuff, but still, Charlie and the cats might miss him.
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Date: 2009-07-30 09:31 pm (UTC)"Quickly!" she says, grabbing his arm and running across the fields.
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Date: 2009-07-30 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 09:36 pm (UTC)She leaps the fence at the end of her garden, hoping Teja can get over it.
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Date: 2009-07-30 09:39 pm (UTC)He follows her closely.
"Shall you be in great trouble?"
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Date: 2009-07-30 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-30 09:57 pm (UTC)Pause.
"There is no way that I can help you deal with your father; but if you need anything from me, it is yours!"
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Date: 2009-07-30 10:01 pm (UTC)"Quick, through the wood shed, and I'll let you know what happens."
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