No trace of sound even hinted that he'd left Cait's bedroom until he flicked the plug of the kitchen phone out of the wall. Tadhg looked up to confront the instant fury in Abby's eyes, his own eyes quiet, unflinching and puca-dark.
As she was no longer Da’s funny, playfully sarcastic girlfriend, he was no longer her lover's bohemian, cheerfully mellow youngest son.
"Abby, there's no one, no one in this apartment who doesn't hold Pippa's welfare as their chief concern right now," he said in a voice that made no apology for being more than a century old. "So. I have one question for you, and then if I can't answer your concerns adequately, I'll plug this phone back in and leave you to do what you feel you must." And trigger off a very long chain of consequences, but that will be as it has to be.
He leaned forward slightly, gaze still locked with hers. "What do you think Pippa needs that she's not getting right now?"
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Date: 2008-08-31 05:47 pm (UTC)As she was no longer Da’s funny, playfully sarcastic girlfriend, he was no longer her lover's bohemian, cheerfully mellow youngest son.
"Abby, there's no one, no one in this apartment who doesn't hold Pippa's welfare as their chief concern right now," he said in a voice that made no apology for being more than a century old. "So. I have one question for you, and then if I can't answer your concerns adequately, I'll plug this phone back in and leave you to do what you feel you must." And trigger off a very long chain of consequences, but that will be as it has to be.
He leaned forward slightly, gaze still locked with hers. "What do you think Pippa needs that she's not getting right now?"