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Reunions: Chapter 9
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But, almost immediately, another image of Tasha opening Alice’s apartment door sprang into her mind, seeming to taunt her with its vividness.
Opening her eyes again, she retrained her gaze on the water in front of her. Try as she might, she couldn’t seem to stop her mind from replaying that moment over and over again in a torturous cycle. With a heavy sigh, she decided the only way to deal with it was to confront the thought head-on.
As she forced herself to relive the scene at Alice’s apartment again, she realised two things: firstly, Tasha had invited her inside – that hardly seemed to be the typical reaction of someone who had just slept with someone else’s girlfriend… unless she wanted to gloat about it, but that didn’t seem like Tasha’s style.
Secondly, and most importantly, Alice loved Lara. She wouldn’t just randomly sleep with Tasha, not after everything that had happened between her and Lara over the past few days.
Thinking it through logically, one thing seemed clear to Lara: Tasha most likely had some perfectly good reason for being at Alice’s apartment at 8:30 in the morning. Maybe she had forgotten her keys and was locked out of her building last night. Maybe her apartment was being fumigated and she needed a place to crash. It didn’t really matter what the reason was – what mattered was that Alice wouldn’t have slept with Tasha behind Lara’s back.
That wasn’t what was really bothering Lara right now.
What disturbed her most was that she had run away from the situation… again. After promising herself that she would never leave Alice again without explaining herself, she had done just that. What was worse, her most natural and immediate reflex had been to run away, when she should have stayed and waited for Alice to explain.
Lara frowned deeply as she stared at the waves breaking on the shoreline in front of her. She felt knots forming in her stomach as she forced herself to examine what seemed to have suddenly become a pattern of abandonment in her life over the past year. She had left Dana when she was sick, and she had left Alice when she was grieving. And, she had given serious thought to leaving Alice again in the past week. Lara had always justified her actions by telling herself that external circumstances had forced her to leave those she loved behind; but, if she looked at each of those situations objectively, she could see that her reaction had always been based on a fearful need to protect herself from being hurt.
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awww!!! that was so cute….i hope that is the last of a running lara we will ever see!! although…im sure it would be a nice view from the back of lara running away…hmmm….what? oh sorry, got lost in my own fantasies!! lol great post keep it up.
I did not see that coming but I am glad to see that lara has started to open up to alice in will help them both in the long run as long as the both talk to one an other great update I love it please post soon
Love it. Really, Lara should be kept around for season 4. Looking forward to the next champter (or two). Excellent chapter.
Blue, you do not disappoint (my knickers are back in order, thanks;)) I love how your fanfics unfold and how you’ve portrayed the Lace journey so far. Excellent update!! Very asute weaving in of Tasha’s backstory, consistent with the cues we’d been given before. Bravo to Tasha for being mature about realizing that she and Alice are bound for friendship, and to Alice for being there in that capacity. Could it be that our heroines are growing more self-assured and trusting? I say amen to that. And hey, it does seem to be true that couples with that ‘i have to have you right now’ vibe are not to be messed with, isn’t it? And helloooo, Lara’s history-slash-demons, revealed to us through her self-reflection on her relationship with her family, herself, Dana, and also Alice was just damn tasty. I almost want her to give Alice that smooth shell she found, as metaphor for her new self-awareness and continued journey. I liked the touch of her not having even told Dana about her father situation, but then now willing to first admit it to herself and also realize she needs to share with Alice (again, suggests growth). And I, the total SAP, got all warm fuzzy about her letting her sadness out in the form of some honest CRYING into the arms of Alice: the one she loves and the one who loves her back. Sigh. Oh and btw, the tidbit about Alice finding Lara on the STEPS? Brill. Wow. Wow. Wow. Looking very forward to seeing how this tale continues, maybe even plenty of room for further, to swipe Gold’s sexcellent term, Laranlysis (paging Dr. Alice…paging Dr. Alice…) and of course, crazy hot lovesex? But I’ll leave that up to you as to when that fits in most appropriately, tee hee. Cause with these two…it’s gonna be special. Like your fics!
Excellent! Really like these Lace stories! PPS :)
hey blue! Well done, and to be honest, I don’t think you lifted anything from my story…I love the look at Lara’s history, and it certainly helps explain her actions in Reunions! So, if you want to give me credit…I’ll take it :) ….but it’s really not necessary! There’s plenty o’room in the Lara-nalysis department! (ugh, I can’t believe I just typed that!). I love that Alice was so patient, and I think the whole Tasha thing made great sense as well…..really, the whole coming out makes sense in light of the break-up, I think you’d alluded earlier that Tasha’s closeted nature was problematic for Alice, so it makes sense she might want to debrief with Alice…and I can see the whole getting drunk and passing out after such a bad scene with the parents. So….the flow, great, the resolution, very satisfactory! looking forward to the next chapter, as always!
Well, at least the Tasha thing is cleared up. And as for Lara, I’m glad she’s going to stop running. She’s got more than enough reason to stay put. Chapter was ace, blue. More, please!