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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2007 6:24:41 GMT -5
"Oh," Gambit said, "I nearly had a heart attack."
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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2007 6:51:19 GMT -5
Shade laughed. "Oh, please don´t." she said. "everything aside, what I feel for you and all that, I trust in what you do up there at the mansion."
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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2007 7:12:55 GMT -5
"Hm," Gambit said, "I hope ya don't make any mistake in trustin' Gambit."
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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2007 7:22:32 GMT -5
"I trust in your thieving skills and all that." she said, staying a little vague, but convinced that Xavier could not wish for a better man to do the security checks. The all that included trusting him as a person. He was still secretive towards her although not as much as he had been but she trusted him when it came to taking care of her. However strange his means to do so were at times, Shade was sure that ´parts of Gambit´s motifs were to protect her. He had let that shine through at several occasions already. And besides that - they had been together for a good two and a half months now. She was not the sort of person to keep a relationship with someone she did not trust.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2007 7:27:51 GMT -5
"Ah, den you're pretty much safe," Gambit said. "It's somethin' in which even I trust." He kissed her on the temple, just above her ear.
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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2007 7:32:29 GMT -5
She smiled at the kiss. "See?" she said. "Told you so." She nuzzled a little closer. She wondered what exactly it meant for him to actually trust someone and if there were people he really trusted. "Are there people you trust?" she asked, not intending a too deep running conversation but simply being curious and thinking aloud.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2007 7:35:57 GMT -5
"Two or three," Gambit said. "There might be more, just these few dat first come t' mind."
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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2007 12:12:45 GMT -5
Shade tilted her head to the side a little and glanced up at him. "Would I be a candidate for that category?" she asked.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2007 12:18:40 GMT -5
"Maybe," Gambit said, "but I really haven't tested you in dat sense yet. It really takes a lot of time."
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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2007 12:22:45 GMT -5
It was a typical Gambit answer and according to this a "maybe" was acceptable after his standards. Shade took her sausage which seemed good by now off the fire and stuck the end of the stick it was on into the ground so it could cool down a little first. "What does it mean for you..." she asked. "to trust someone?"
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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2007 12:28:03 GMT -5
"Well, same thing it means t' anybody, I suppose," Gambit shrugged, then got his sausage closer and blew on it to make it cool off a bit. "When you can rely on someone no matter what. When ya don't expect a knife into your back. When you can expect help or at least attention at any time, in any circumstances. Even if you commit worst things in de world an' you know dey won't turn away."
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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2007 12:34:01 GMT -5
Shade nodded in understanding, some images of their relationship immidiately popping up in her mind, most prominently of all, that moment in the hotel in Tunisia after the kidnapping. She had seen guilt in his eyes back then, but she had never really held him responsible for anything that had had to do with it although he surely saw this differently. Responsibility was connected to intention for her and he had not intended this to happen. She had not seen him kill but knew he had done so. But she had not pushed him back.
"Everyone needs people like that." she said. "And it´s better to have few you know you can trust, few good friends than a whole lot of people who act friendly but where you don´t know how far they would go when it comes to you."
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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2007 14:19:21 GMT -5
"Definitely," Gambit nodded. Trust was a touchy subject, and he resorted to a brief answer now because he didn't want to go too deep into it.
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Post by Shade on Jul 10, 2007 14:39:16 GMT -5
Something told her Gambit did not want to talk about that issue too much. She had not intended it to become a difficult thing to talk about, what she had just said had just been a general statement about how she saw things and how she had always seen them when it came to friends and people she found trustworthy. She did not trust too easily herself although she could be rather sociable. Shade knew he would have contradicted her in some way or the other but the enumeration he had given her about his definition of trust earlier ... these were things that counted for herself as well and that she was willing to offer to him if he only was willing to accept. She knew she loved him too much to let him down at the first occasion when there were difficulties. Was she getting blue eyed? She couldn´t tell, maybe she was but she didn´t care. She had decided for him, her heart had and it didn´t decide so too easily. She leant a little closer towards his shoulder and absent mindedly reached over with an arm to hug him a little closer.
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Post by Gambit on Jul 10, 2007 17:33:19 GMT -5
Gambit pulled her yet closer to him, studying the sausage he had fried with scrupulous gaze. "What happened first, ya started trustin' Gambit or ya fell in love wit' 'im?" he asked.
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