Evelyn isn't sure what she meant, but his stillness suggests that her word choice could have been better. She can hear the click of his jaw as it clenches, feel his fingertips tense against the small of her back and what she really feels is better relegated to conversation with someone she trusts intimately. Evelyn slides her arm under his lifted head - it was starting to cramp something awful.
Fixing him with a dispassionate look her fingers rake through Dean's hair, fisting a handful and holding it tightly. Baseless accusations aside her tone is calm, quiet, but in the silence of the room is as thunderous as a storm.]
Do not presume to know my type.
[They all lie, eventually. Even the honest ones. Small lies, white lies, or deceptions so riotous and earth-shattering she is left shaken and betrayed and lonelier than before. The standards she sets for herself are high and she knows it is unfair to expect others to live up to the same level of honesty, integrity. People will let Evelyn down, and her capacity for forgiveness has accepted that.
What she cannot forgive is slander, gripping his chin with her other hand and holding the ire firmly, but carefully.]
You, who lacks delicacy in all things and wants what he cannot have.
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Evelyn isn't sure what she meant, but his stillness suggests that her word choice could have been better. She can hear the click of his jaw as it clenches, feel his fingertips tense against the small of her back and what she really feels is better relegated to conversation with someone she trusts intimately. Evelyn slides her arm under his lifted head - it was starting to cramp something awful.
Fixing him with a dispassionate look her fingers rake through Dean's hair, fisting a handful and holding it tightly. Baseless accusations aside her tone is calm, quiet, but in the silence of the room is as thunderous as a storm.]
Do not presume to know my type.
[They all lie, eventually. Even the honest ones. Small lies, white lies, or deceptions so riotous and earth-shattering she is left shaken and betrayed and lonelier than before. The standards she sets for herself are high and she knows it is unfair to expect others to live up to the same level of honesty, integrity. People will let Evelyn down, and her capacity for forgiveness has accepted that.
What she cannot forgive is slander, gripping his chin with her other hand and holding the ire firmly, but carefully.]
You, who lacks delicacy in all things and wants what he cannot have.