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WHO: Greed & Zoe
WHEN: Thursday evening
WHERE: Zoe's apartment
WHAT: Zoe went away for three days and has just got home
WARNING: Sure, why not.
NOTE: We're impatient brats okay.

Zoe had to get out of the city because it was too much. She was hugely depressed over losing her grandmother's locket and she hated the fact that she let Greed's callousness hurt her. She knew from the start he was trouble, he was a player, and he was interested in just one thing. She was an idiot for letting it go as far as it did and she'd take the blame on herself. Why not, it wasn't Greed's job to care and actually back off and not break her heart. He had to go after what he wanted. It was human nature.

So Zoe ran to get some space and distance while she still had control over her emotions. Except her phone wasn't letting her forget him. She wanted to call Gabe but knew he was unavailable and she was starting to hate her phone. Greed was going to be the death of her. One minute hot, one minute cold... AUGH. She'd gone for a few days by the water which always settled her nerves except every time she got a message, she wanted to chuck the phone in the ocean. She'd tried turning the phone off but when she turned it back on, she'd have a slew of new messages from him. And though she didn't respond to any of them, she read every single one. And she hated that she missed him.

On the ride home she didn't even look at her phone, just miserably out the window of the bus. The person next to her said, "I think you have a message." Zoe didn't even look at them just said dully, "I know." a few minutes later, the phone buzzed again and the man said, "Could be important.." Zoe said in the same flat voice, "It's not." she closed her eyes and let her head thunk against the glass lightly as the phone buzzed again.

When she reached her apartment building, she pulled out her phone to scroll through the texts Greed had sent her today. She sighed and put the phone in her duffel along with her shoes so she could start the long climb up the stairs to her apartment. She'd cried already on her little trip away but all she wanted to do now was crawl into her nice bed and cry some more. If she really wanted to forget and move on she might have to change her number.

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"No, you didn't." she automatically countered. "Mm.. I think I like the Virtues. I bet they don't go around kissing innocent girls." she jabbed him again with her foot.

She smiled a little when he said it turned him on when she called him by his namesake, "Really? Then we'll stick with Chance."

She sighed and folded her arms on her knees, "Ever ever. And I don't mean this apartment. You obviously can't stay here ever ever but I mean.. my life." she looked at him somberly, "If you can see yourself walking out of my life at any point.. then do it now. You might be a sin," god, was she really going with this, "But there's something human in you, I wouldn't-- I wouldn't feel about you the way I do if there wasn't. So I'm talking to that guy. The guy who came to rescue me at one in the morning. I'm asking him to find some mercy." her eyes were wet again but it wasn't breaking down tears, this was something different, her words were soft, she wasn't angry or hurt, she was making a plea, "If you're going to just end up leaving.." she gave him a winced look and shook her head, "..do it now." it would save them both a lot of trouble. This was a very dangerous path they were gonna set foot on otherwise. She didn't think she could throw him out, she knew she couldn't. But she knew if he left now she'd survive it. Down the road she wasn't so sure. She hoped that if he gave even half a damn about her then he would grant her this one request.

"The Virtues are total bores." He yawned. He grabbed her foot at that last jab, rolling his eyes. "You could go with Avarice." Smile. "I'm fond of that name too."

He crawled up (forget the towel). "You're mine, Zoe," and he meant that possessively. He had branded her as his whether or not he'd used influence. He wasn't going anywhere right now. He pulled her closer, dragging her legs over him until she was practically in his lap.

Zoe let him pull her closer but didn't touch him. She tilted her head and just asked, "For how long?" she wasn't thinking about forever or marriage or anything ridiculous, but she didn't want to try with this guy and have him obliterate her in a week or a month because he found something new. She wasn't going to do this as a she was his and when he got bored it was done. They both needed to understand what they were getting into. And Greed didn't strike her as a look before you do anything kinda guy.

Greed couldn't really do promises. It was within his nature to find new things. "Admittedly I don't want to give you up quickly." He wanted to hang onto this one for a little while. "But...most wear out." That was if he didn't get bored first. He did want to try because she was so exotic for him with these 'feelings' she carried. It was for personal gain with him (of course it was) but he wanted to try.

Zoe gave him a look, if she thought of him as a sin, he made a lot more sense. But it also promised a lot more heartbreak. "The only thing you wear on are my nerves."

She stayed in his lap and just looked at him. She wasn't accepting it fully but even if he was making it up, she was curious about the answers, "What do you feel when we kiss..?" he always claimed he didn't want to stop but seemed like he was dying when it happened, it was a bit of an oxymoron. Plus she wanted to know if he had any feelings at all for her. Otherwise what was this..

He was eying a pile of cds on a shelf just opposite to them when she asked him a question. He snapped out of his little daze which was honing in on what he could loot home. "Hmmm...uh..." he scratched his head just behind his ear. "Well, it's not like you. It's kind of like exotic food going into my body. It's new, it tastes good, but it burns like hell." He kept eying the shelf. "I just know I want it. Because...well because I don't have it. It doesn't feel like what it does for you." Not even Josie had asked him those kind of questions. Then again Josie had been his own plaything whose feelings he'd manipulated.

Zoe again was torn, the words.. so wrong, but the tone, honest. And he was off again like a kid who needed riddilin. "Hey." she said softly and touched his cheek to make him stop looking around and just look at her. "Promise me one thing, okay?" she kissed his cheek,"When you break my heart," because there was going to be no way around it, "It'll be after you know you have it. And you'll feel what I feel. Even if it's just for a split second, when you feel it, you'll know." she wasn't angry or upset, it was sort of the way things would happen because Zoe didn't get to keep good things in her life. But if she was going to walk into the fire, she wanted the burn to be worth something to someone.

It would never end pleasantly with Greed just because he wasn't guaranteed to ever do anything for anyone but himself. He was selfish, like many of his siblings. It was in what was in the gain not in what it felt for other people. And while she could feel on a level he could only wonder about, he knew what she had was real. It was honest. He nodded, closing his eyes at that touch. It was that kind of thing he was jealous of. It wasn't money, it wasn't a material possession, but with how he categorized 'things', people fell into those spots. She was already a prized possession that he wanted to keep and display proudly. It hadn't been the necklace he'd wanted (though he'd easily used it as bait), it was her.

Zoe looked at his closed eyes and closed her own, just to have a moment of peace. "I think.. it's been a long night. I still can't tell really what's going on. But.. I know I don't want to think anymore." she rested her head in the crook of his neck, "Tomorrow we're gonna have to have a long talk." she sighed at the thought and said again as if to push the thought away, "Tomorrow." and after a couple of moments she added quietly, "I still hate you.."