duplicity ic inbox - FIRST STAY

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[perfectible]

[ betty studies her cousin, trying to figure out what she's not saying.]

Look, Cheryl, I don't want you to die either and you're not going to... there's a lot of us here and we're not going to just abandon you here, okay? [ she pauses.] Plus, you and I are family...

[atbombshell]

As touching as that is family doesn't solve what they want.

( and though she pauses it isn't for long. she's going to have to spell this out )

But I won't cheat on my girlfriend.

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... Okay. [ yes, she's going to have to spell this out.]

You don't have to have sex with who you're contracted with, Cheryl. [ pause.] So where are you going with this?

[atbombshell]

( betty, for someone so smart-- )

I'm not having sex with anyone that isn't Toni. Don't make me get more specific.

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You're going to have to because I have no idea what you're trying to say to me...

[atbombshell]

You have your boyfriend. You can get past what these freaks want.

( sex with the person you loved was simple. no one would bat an eye about it )

I can't.

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Not always. [ she knows she's lucky but at the same time there are times get out of control.]

But you're a Dominant, aren't you?

[atbombshell]

So?

( she has some idea of what being a dominant allows her to do but not everything )

[perfectible]

You’re the one with the most control, you don’t have as many restrictions on you. And no matter what designation you are, you can set the rules of the contract.

[atbombshell]

If I wrote a contract.

( which she didn't intend to. playing into their sick desires? )

I can't believe you think I'd go along with it.

[perfectible]

So you’re planning to go to jail? Cheryl, you can’t be serious. Do you know what they do to people there?

[atbombshell]

And give up my life otherwise?

( she was someone that clung to control, particularly after the family she'd had to fight with for something in her life )

I'm not you, Betty. I can't-- I can't think of doing that.

( of just taking someone else into her life. it'd been hard enough opening up the first time )

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[ well there's a jab into a particularly sensitive part of betty's psyche. she blinks before she frowns at her cousin.]

So you'd rather be tortured and experimented on? Because while I don't know Toni that well, I don't think that's what she'd want you to do. And for the millionth, you don't have to be intimate with someone you're contracted with. [ it just... happens.]

If we weren't the same designation, we could be contracted. [ she sighs.] Cheryl, there's nothing wrong with doing what you need to survive.