"He is an impostor for claiming her, because he doesn't love her. And I know that it's something they both chose in their own right, that she didn't have to say yes and neither did he, and that something like this can happen at all has nothing to do with either of them. But she's my friend, she's someone I thought I was in love with, and I have to sit and watch him hurt her every single day, and I can't do anything to fix it. You can stand there and say 'well that's just how Roland is, because of what he's gone through' but it's difficult to accept something like that when your friend is being attacked, isn't it? No one else will pay attention to what's hurting her so I have to."
Not for the first time it occurred to her that she and Bert had matching positions. They were protecting people who viciously tried to shake off the idea that they needed protecting at all. It didn't make anything better, of course, in fact it might only mean there was always a wedge between herself and the man that had, for whatever reason, currently stolen her attention.
"I don't hate Roland as a person. I hate that he doesn't seem to want to try and understand what she needs, which has nothing to do with being in love with someone or not." But it did have to deal with being close, and that seemed to be Roland's obstacle. "... But you forgave it before I could say the rest of that, so the timing is sort of off."
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Date: 2015-02-19 12:09 am (UTC)Not for the first time it occurred to her that she and Bert had matching positions. They were protecting people who viciously tried to shake off the idea that they needed protecting at all. It didn't make anything better, of course, in fact it might only mean there was always a wedge between herself and the man that had, for whatever reason, currently stolen her attention.
"I don't hate Roland as a person. I hate that he doesn't seem to want to try and understand what she needs, which has nothing to do with being in love with someone or not." But it did have to deal with being close, and that seemed to be Roland's obstacle. "... But you forgave it before I could say the rest of that, so the timing is sort of off."