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
2013-10-15 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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