invisible threads are the strongest ties

[lastdragomir]

WHO || Lissa Dragomir & Rose Hathaway
WHAT || The Moroi and the Guardian finally talk.
WHERE || Breakfast nook
WHEN || October 22nd, lunch
HOW || Prose

Lissa and Rose are like magnets. There is an undeniable pull between them, something that ties them together just by existing, as if they're meant to be together, a set. Bonded.

But the thing about magnets is that if you turn one, both magnets flee in opposite directions. Which is pretty much what happened with Rose and Lissa. It was too hard and too awkward even just being near each other so they simply weren't. For days and then weeks and then months.

But stubborness and fear isn't much of a match against people who keep insisting Lissa talk to her so one day, out of the blue, she gives up. Orders Chinese food, gets it delivered and settles into the relatively secluded breakfast nook.

Sipping a water, she carefully reaches out, letting down all her defenses. Rose? Come find me?

And if that isn't enough, there is always the note shoved under her door asking her much the same. (She tucked a note addressed to Rose under Dimitri's door, too -- just in case.)

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[littledhampir]

She heard the message, just like she heard almost every other thought or feeling that had gone through Lissa's head from the very moment she'd come through the veil. It was disturbing to Rose how well she knew her and yet, didn't actually know her at all.

She heard the message yes, but didn't come immediately. What? Just because Lissa summoned her didn't mean she had to jump... Except that maybe it did because everything she could remember from her training told her that she should go to her except Rose had a way of twisting the rules to better suit her needs, or stubborn whims as the case may be.

"This one way communication thing is kind of lame, you know." Meaning the fact that Lissa could call for her and yet Rose had to come all the way here to tell her no - which - rather lost its impact.

She stood there for a long moment, torn between sitting and trying the defiant stance but in the end, with a twitch of her lips, Rose slid into the seat opposite Lissa, letting out a heavy sigh as her hands moved from her lap, to the table before folding across her chest, not adding anything else to the conversation but waiting for the Princess to speak.

[lastdragomir]

"You could have just ignored me," Lissa retorted, calmly twirling her noodles around her chopsticks. When Rose sat, she nudged one of the boxes toward her. She hadn't checked what was in it, so she had no idea if she'd like it, but. She wasn't against bribing Rose with food.

But really. It wasn't like they weren't very good at ignoring each other.

[littledhampir]

"Would that have stopped you from sending messages?" Already eyeing the food as the scent made her stomach grumble. Using her love of Chinese take-out against her was cheating, but it turns out Rose was okay with that. If they were going to be doing this, she might as well get something out of the deal.

Rather than try and resist any longer, she brought the carton closer, grabbing the spare set of chopsticks and stifling a sigh.

"I assume you didn't ask me here to eat." Rose not exactly making things any easier by being her usual charming self.

[lastdragomir]

Lissa snorted out a brief laugh, almost derisive, as she kept twisting the noodles before bringing them up to her mouth. "You say that like I've been sending you stalker messages. I did it once. Today, so. Yeah, I would have given up. And then had twice as much food."

She didn't say anything to the second point, chewing neatly. Obviously she invited Rose to eat since she'd ordered Rose her own food. She just didn't invite Rose specifically to eat.