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aftanithTitle: Irreplaceable
Fandom: Parabellum (original fiction)
Wordcount: 791
Pairing(s): Stelian Frost/Sparrow | Stacey Katharos/Galen Freed, past Stelian Frost/Sparrow | Stacey Katharos/Simon Ides/Nadia Sen
Warning(s): spoilers!, canonical character death
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mission_insane [meta] 8. dead POV character
I don't like him. I've been watching him, watching the way he's slowly edged his way into first their lives and then their bed, and I think it's actually starting to get to me. This is something I expect of Frost, sure, but not of Sparrow--but perhaps I shouldn't be surprised. Sparrow has never been wise when it comes to choosing her lovers; Frost certainly can't be blamed on her, but the rest can. Seth Reinhold, Loretta Donahue, this new victor, and the string of men they've been fucking lately... The only time Sparrow was with someone who was good for her was when she was with Nadia and I, and now that she's not, she's right back to indulging both Frost's and her own worst urges. She's going to get herself in trouble one of these days.
But for now, she and Frost are tangled up in Galen Freed, and I can't begin to understand it. He's not even her type; if anything, he's Frost's--a pretty young man with more money than sense and a libido to match Loretta's. They would be a reasonable couple, but neither one of them is good enough for Sparrow. And I wouldn't even care if I thought she was just fucking him, just wasting her time and getting her rocks off without any feelings attached. But I can see the way she looks at him, and it's driving me nuts; that's the way she looked at me for so long, and I know exactly what that expression is hiding, even if the new kid doesn't.
Sparrow is falling in love with him, and she has been since that very first night they spent together. How it happened, I'll never know; I'm honestly surprised that the boy even brought himself to touch her, let alone please her enough to earn this detestable little crush; he's been making moon eyes at Frost for months, and it's clear to everyone--Sparrow included, I'm absolutely sure--that she's nothing more to him than an afterthought. Galen Freed wants her only as a way to get to her husband, and if I could have my way, I'd jump at that opportunity. Freed can have Frost all he damn wants, so long as I can take Sparrow and Nadia and get them as far away from the wardamn Circle as physically possible.
But that's not an option anymore, and Frost wouldn't have ever let it happen even if it was.
So here I am instead, watching with disdain as Sparrow falls for this redheaded sycophant, and Frost certainly isn't about to do a single thing to stop it. He's always indulged her when he could, and now that what she wants is so close to what he does, there's no way that's going to change. They both want this little idiot, and even I can see that they're getting along better now than they ever have before. It's downright sickening, and it speaks to something much more worrisome.
She's not simply falling in love with Galen; worse, she's finally falling in love with Frost.
I knew it would happen eventually, but I always thought I was going to be around to stop it--or, if not to stop it, to at least slow or dampen it. The last thing in the world I want is for Frost to get this final victory over her (he's already won everything else, after all), but it's not as if my opinions matter to either of them anymore. In that respect, Freed is in a better position than I ever was; he's willing to give himself to them like I never was, unburdened as he is by either Nadia or a sense of self-respect. This boy wants to be their pet, wants Frost to take him and keep him the way he's taken Sparrow, and it honestly makes me sick. I don't think he has any idea what kind of man he's playing with, and I'm sure he doesn't realize that what Frost will be willing to give him isn't the thing that he wants.
Frost is going to take everything from him, every single thing he's willing to offer and that Sparrow could possibly want, and if Sparrow ever loses interest, he'll be gone before he can blink. Someone should warn him, really, but it certainly isn't going to be me. And it's not like he'd listen to a word I'd have to say.
But believe me, if I was still alive at Sparrow's side where I belong, that spoiled little brat would never have come within twenty feet of her. Because he doesn't deserve her, and Frost doesn't deserve to get what he wants.
And I don't appreciate being replaced.
Fandom: Parabellum (original fiction)
Wordcount: 791
Pairing(s): Stelian Frost/Sparrow | Stacey Katharos/Galen Freed, past Stelian Frost/Sparrow | Stacey Katharos/Simon Ides/Nadia Sen
Warning(s): spoilers!, canonical character death
Prompt(s):
mission_insane [meta] 8. dead POV characterI don't like him. I've been watching him, watching the way he's slowly edged his way into first their lives and then their bed, and I think it's actually starting to get to me. This is something I expect of Frost, sure, but not of Sparrow--but perhaps I shouldn't be surprised. Sparrow has never been wise when it comes to choosing her lovers; Frost certainly can't be blamed on her, but the rest can. Seth Reinhold, Loretta Donahue, this new victor, and the string of men they've been fucking lately... The only time Sparrow was with someone who was good for her was when she was with Nadia and I, and now that she's not, she's right back to indulging both Frost's and her own worst urges. She's going to get herself in trouble one of these days.
But for now, she and Frost are tangled up in Galen Freed, and I can't begin to understand it. He's not even her type; if anything, he's Frost's--a pretty young man with more money than sense and a libido to match Loretta's. They would be a reasonable couple, but neither one of them is good enough for Sparrow. And I wouldn't even care if I thought she was just fucking him, just wasting her time and getting her rocks off without any feelings attached. But I can see the way she looks at him, and it's driving me nuts; that's the way she looked at me for so long, and I know exactly what that expression is hiding, even if the new kid doesn't.
Sparrow is falling in love with him, and she has been since that very first night they spent together. How it happened, I'll never know; I'm honestly surprised that the boy even brought himself to touch her, let alone please her enough to earn this detestable little crush; he's been making moon eyes at Frost for months, and it's clear to everyone--Sparrow included, I'm absolutely sure--that she's nothing more to him than an afterthought. Galen Freed wants her only as a way to get to her husband, and if I could have my way, I'd jump at that opportunity. Freed can have Frost all he damn wants, so long as I can take Sparrow and Nadia and get them as far away from the wardamn Circle as physically possible.
But that's not an option anymore, and Frost wouldn't have ever let it happen even if it was.
So here I am instead, watching with disdain as Sparrow falls for this redheaded sycophant, and Frost certainly isn't about to do a single thing to stop it. He's always indulged her when he could, and now that what she wants is so close to what he does, there's no way that's going to change. They both want this little idiot, and even I can see that they're getting along better now than they ever have before. It's downright sickening, and it speaks to something much more worrisome.
She's not simply falling in love with Galen; worse, she's finally falling in love with Frost.
I knew it would happen eventually, but I always thought I was going to be around to stop it--or, if not to stop it, to at least slow or dampen it. The last thing in the world I want is for Frost to get this final victory over her (he's already won everything else, after all), but it's not as if my opinions matter to either of them anymore. In that respect, Freed is in a better position than I ever was; he's willing to give himself to them like I never was, unburdened as he is by either Nadia or a sense of self-respect. This boy wants to be their pet, wants Frost to take him and keep him the way he's taken Sparrow, and it honestly makes me sick. I don't think he has any idea what kind of man he's playing with, and I'm sure he doesn't realize that what Frost will be willing to give him isn't the thing that he wants.
Frost is going to take everything from him, every single thing he's willing to offer and that Sparrow could possibly want, and if Sparrow ever loses interest, he'll be gone before he can blink. Someone should warn him, really, but it certainly isn't going to be me. And it's not like he'd listen to a word I'd have to say.
But believe me, if I was still alive at Sparrow's side where I belong, that spoiled little brat would never have come within twenty feet of her. Because he doesn't deserve her, and Frost doesn't deserve to get what he wants.
And I don't appreciate being replaced.
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