wadcock (wadcock) wrote in valesco,
@ 2013-10-08 20:13:00

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Michal!
It was clear that Michal was still upset with Seth. With Michal out, they hadn't even spoken since he showed up on his doorstep and punching him in the face. Which Seth was fine with letting that go on as long as it needed to for Michal to get over the fact that he had dated his sister secretly a decade ago. All in all, that could have ended in a thousand ways that were worse than him dealing with the silent treatment and a broken jaw (that was quickly fixed).

Seth was willing to let it go on as long as Michal needed right up until things happened with Savannah at the charity gala. He was meeting up with her to discuss the fact that he kissed her, not at all drunk and completely meaning to as soon as he had a free moment. Which would be after practice the day after next. In two days, Seth would have to have a very real, and hopefully mature conversation with his ex-wife whom he kissed, and he hadn’t even told his best friend about it yet.

He needed Michal, if anything to just listen to him. Because other than knowing that he didn’t regret kissing Savannah, he was so unsure about everything else. Did he still love her? Or was he just lonely and falling back into something familiar. He needed to talk it out with someone he trusted before he talked to Savannah. This was too delicate for him to just show up and hope he said the right thing. That he meant what ever it was he was going to say. Though he could possibly go to Henry, he’d really like the opinion of a friend at the moment.

Seth spotted him in the weight room on his way out of the pitch and couldn't pass the opportunity up. “I need to talk to you.” Seth said simply, standing in the doorway effectively blocking his only exit. This was bigger than a grudge being held over something that had happened ten years prior. “It's important.”

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conways
2013-10-09 02:20 am UTC (link)

He sucked his cheeks together sourly. Oh, it was important was it? Well, excuse him. It was wonder what actually constituted as being important, because if having a full-blown relationship with your sister wasn't considered in there, Michal could only imagine was was held within that category in Seth's mind.

Michal dropped his bag to the ground with a thud, and crossed his arms over his chest. It was true, he still had not been cleared to return to the pitch (some cobswallop about not having fulfilled enough outside therapy), he had been seeing Seth less. And, Michal had believed that to be for the best, for when he did see his best friend, he felt like throttling him, and most of those times he really just wanted to ignore him and waste the no energy that he deserved. So. There they were.

But, Seth had turned the tables, with his serious and determined face. Michal continued to watch Seth silently, weighing his options. Finally, he rested on a response that felt comfortable, and appropriate.

"Have you come to tell my you eloped with my sister now as well?" he grumbled, face contorting with a bit of pent up emotion. "Had a jolly wedding in Poland five years ago? My invite got lost in the mail did it?"

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wadcock
2013-10-09 02:55 am UTC (link)

Seth rolled his eyes at Michal's response. Always one for the dramatics. "Like I would get married in Poland." he let out before he could think better of it. Now was probably not the best time to rile Michal up. "I don't think I can apologize anymore for not telling you about that, and you've already broken my jaw. If it would make you feel better to do it again, go for it, but after that I'm considering it done with."

He rubbed the back of his neck at a loss of what to do. He needed his best friend, not some smart ass remark when he told Michal what had happened. How did his life have such atrocious timing that his past was always screwing up his present. He had thought by now, everything would have caught up with him.

"I need it to be done with, because as selfish as it is, I need you to be my best friend right now, not a twat who can let something that happened when we were barely out of school go." His face twisted as he heard what he had just said. Thinking before speaking was something he was still learning to master.

"I kissed Savannah at the Mungo's Charity Gala. I kissed her and I don't regret it. And now I need to figure out ---what it all means." Seth said quickly before he could change his mind or Michal could go on a tirade about his sister again. "So, yeah." he shrugged his shoulders hoping his friend wouldn't take the option of punching him again.

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conways
2013-10-14 12:20 am UTC (link)

Twat? A twat? That couldn't let--- Michal felt his face begin to burn. Liddie was his little sister, his only sister, and Seth his (former) best friend. For him to not say anything about their 'relations' for years after the fact, after everything they had been through was a deep burn of betrayal that Michal hadn't felt in a very long time. His face began to screw up significantly, ready let Seth know exactly just how much of a burn exactly when Seth's next words derailed him.

He had snogged Savannah?

Against his best control (and therefore much to his dismay), Michal's brow popped with surprise and intrigue. That was... a development. A definite development. His lips pursed as he wrestled with how to respond. If there was anything, bringing up a recent hook up with your ex-wife was definitely something to drop all hostilities for. Michal tightened his arms across his chest, as he felt a burgeoning, heavy emotion sweep over him.

Damn him.

Michal's face broke miserably, and his arms fell to his sides briefly before his hands reached up to rub his own face. His face heated up again, but this time for a different reason. "I slept with Larkin," he mumbled, palms pressing into his cheeks. "At Mungo's, when I was in Mungo's she came for a visit and..."

He realized, a bit too late, that this revelation was meant as a kind of giving in, to show Seth how when they were apart, fighting, they always seemed to make dangerously unwise choices, but somehow, he couldn't quite make himself continue to establish that out loud. It was with a weak hope that Seth understood that. His shoulders pressed together tightly as he continued to be unable to move his hands, or, Merlin-forbid, look at Seth, but perhaps that was for the best. He'd rather not remind himself this discussion was taking place in the middle of Falmouth's stadium, and not someplace a bit more private.

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wadcock
2013-10-14 01:32 am UTC (link)

"I-- wait what?" Seth blinked at Michal unsure that he heard correctly. No. He definitely misheard. Otherwise, Michal just said he slept with Larkin while he was laid up in Mungo's. And didn't Larkin flee the ---oh. Oh. Didn't that timing line up oddly well.

"I don't know how to respond to that." Seth said sinking down onto a bench across from Michal. Could you congratulate someone on finally resolving years of pent up sexual tension? Normally that would be Seth's go to remark, but this definitely felt a bit more delicate than that. He'd ask how it was, but that felt a bit awkward as well given the circumstances and his past. Really a surprise they were even still friends. "Aren't we quite the pair."

He was so bad at feelings. At things that really mattered. It's why him and Michal made such good friends. Make jokes until the seriousness went away and then they could just laugh at it. But now, that seemed like the worst thing they could possibly do. "I think I might still love her." Seth offered up after letting a quiet spell settle over them, since he didn't know what say about Michal's revelation. Maybe it would be best to just go on with his own. "Savannah. Maybe I never stopped, but after everything I can't--" He ran his hands over his face, not even sure where he was going. Changing tracks again he turned the subject back to Michal. "What are you going to do? Do you want to make something more of it?"

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conways
2013-10-15 01:59 am UTC (link)

Michal forced his palms to press harder into his own face. Seth didn't know how to respond to that? He didn't know how to respond to that, and he had been the one there, present three weeks ago and effectively felt the same way now he did then. Well, perhaps now there was a bit more bitterness, and reserve within him than, say, a hour after the fact, but. That didn't change the fact that he continually felt... unfulfilled, or at least not in the way he had thought he would after all these years. It hadn't... his expectations...

He was glad that Seth spoke first, breaking Michal out of his descending thoughts. His hands dropped for the first time in the past ten minutes, and his face contorted to that of disbelief. Seth thought he had never stopped---

"What?" His voice rumbled. "You can't be serious." Michal's elbows tucked sharply into his own sides, turning more to face Seth. In fact, he was so glad of Seth's sudden reveal, that it made it easy for him to completely ignore his own. "Do you hear what you're saying? You haven't even---"

Michal pursed his lips together tightly. "She's your ex-wife."

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wadcock
2013-10-15 05:27 pm UTC (link)

Seth's shoulder's hunched slightly at Michal's reaction. He should have expected it, even if it wasn't what he wanted to hear. "Which means nothing other than she was once my wife." He bit out defensively. He loved her enough once to marry her.

And what was the reason for their divorce? That he just stopped loving her? He was to focused on continually annoying Odette? The added complication of Leanne just made it all too hard? Honestly he couldn't remember what prompted him to break it off anymore. He did remember that he was tactless enough to do it via journal because he wasn't man enough to say it in person. Maybe because he knew that had he tried to in person, he wouldn't have been able to.

"I can't even remember why I ended it Michal. Except for it happened during the time of my life I really wish I could forget. Or redo altogether." He didn't know what else to say. "It was just over. And I can't even remember why. Everything I put before my marriage then certainly isn't important to me now."

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conways
2013-10-16 01:43 am UTC (link)

Seth could very obviously not hear the words that were tumbling out of his mouth. He didn't remember why it had ended? Oh, Michal could think of plenty of reasons right off the top of his head, and it was what, over three years later? He and Seth might not have had the luxury of being on the same team then, but that didn't change the fact that Michal had been there through the entirety of Seth and Savannah's relationship, beginning to end.

He thought back sourly upon their impromptu elopement, and withheld evoking the judgmental thoughts he withheld then. For the time being.

Michal crossed his arms over his chest, still keeping his elbows tucked tightly into his sides. For the most part, he had dealt with that part of Seth's life delicately. Seth hadn't, or wasn't even able, to discern his own actions, and it wouldn't have been right for Michal to interfere, but now? Perhaps delicacy was what had gotten him here in the first place.

"Odette MacFarlan," Michal spoke thickly, and with a hint of tiredness. Seth's inability to accept, what Michal believed, to be his deeply-seated feelings for the seeker was baffling, even after all these years. "It ended because of her, and you know it."

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wadcock
2013-10-16 07:56 pm UTC (link)

Seth froze at Michal's words. He shouldn't have been surprised that his friend threw that in his face, but he was. It wasn't like he didn't know that was a reason. But he certainly qualified that as part of his life he wished he could redo.

He knew where Michal was going with it though. He harped on enough times that it was obvious. "I am not, nor have I ever been in love or even have feelings for Odette Boot." Seth said slowly and clearly. "That was a life crisis. A shame spiral of epic proportions. I was miserable on the Magpies and I wanted to drag down the one person who initiated my life being a living hell with me. That's not feelings, that's me being childish and petty and generally a despicable person."

It took Seth a long time to come to terms with how he acted during his time on the Magpies. To come to a reason why. He still believed it was completely two sided, but he could have walked away at any point in time. "Even if it was, what did I just say? Nothing, nothing that I thought was important then is important to me now. Except maybe Leanne, but that didn't honestly really happen until after my marriage was already over. Everything else, being captain, the magpies, Odette, the fact that my entire team hated me," he ticked each one off on his figures. "Doesn't matter. Don't care. Haven't thought about it in years."

Except maybe the captain thing, but that was completely different topic that Seth was not going to bring up. "I should have never left the United. If I hadn't, I'm almost positive that I would still be married to my wife, and who knows maybe I would be captain instead of Drystan. But I did, and you can't change the past."

Seth folded his arms across his chest bitterly. He wanted to make some scathing remark about Michal and Larkin now. How he didn't have to sleep with Odette to get over his non-existent feelings for her or something equally biting. But Michal wasn't trying to be rude, he was probably just trying to help the only way he knew how. "My marriage ended because of me and no one else. So, just drop the Odette thing. Don't bring it up again."

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