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Moiraine ([personal profile] blue_ajah) wrote2012-07-19 10:26 pm

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She wakes early enough that it is still full dark outside, although the first stirrings of birds hint at the dawn to come.

Some few minutes later, Moiraine is seated at the small table in her kitchen, a cup of tea steaming untouched near to hand as she looks out the window, watching the trees and waiting for enough time to pass that she can make a phone call without waking the person she wishes to reach... and without disturbing his morning meditation session.
tibetanmethod: (in need of answers)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"No." Cooper's answer is immediate and sincere. "Why would it?"
tibetanmethod: (o rly?)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Cooper knows Moiraine's rules.

"Why would you think it would?"

He's got to be better about that.
tibetanmethod: (rumpled in body and spirit)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
To recap:

Cooper received a phone call from Moiraine just past five o'clock in the morning, with details she didn't want to get into on the phone, and when he showed up at her house she told him before he had his coffee that she was talking to the ex-husband who, in one aspect, did its damndest to ruin his life from childhood -- and then she began to speak cryptically about her own status in Twin Peaks. And then she turned away from him.

Dale Cooper is a patient man.

"But you want to leave."

With him.
tibetanmethod: (odd man out)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
And that's the thing. He can't assume -- he has never been able to assume -- that a declaration like that means what he thinks it means. What it might mean. What it could mean.

Because there have been hurdles and there have been barriers, the first and foremost being that for quite some time, Moiraine was under his care, or in some way his responsibility. She stayed in his apartment. She worked as the dispatcher at the station. It would have been deeply unethical -- immoral -- to say or do or think anything. And even if that barrier no longer exists -- and it doesn't, because Moiraine has her own job that has nothing to do with Twin Peaks law enforcement, and her own living space, and she isn't dependent on him any more --

There's still the small matter of the ex-husband.

This town has a bad history of marriages gone poorly, and new flames snuffed.

Not to mention Cooper's own history.

And Dale Cooper cannot, must not assume.

And yet --

"Of course I want you to stay," Cooper says, holding very, very still. "You've built a life here."
tibetanmethod: (rumpled in body and spirit)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It is not even six o'clock in the morning. Dale Cooper is two sips of coffee in for the day.

This is extremely unfair.

"What do you want me to say, Moiraine?" Only now does his voice take on a glimmer of frustration. "What are you trying to make me say?"
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[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Cooper's mouth flattens.

"Moiraine, I can't read your mind. You asked me to come and I came. What do you want me to say? Or what are you trying to say?"

So much for avoiding heightened anxiety.
tibetanmethod: (:O)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Cooper is frozen, for a moment.

Then, very slowly, he puts down his coffee mug on the counter.

And says, quietly, "At least a little. Yes."

This conversation is not happening.

"What did he tell you, Moiraine, that we're having this conversation right now?"
tibetanmethod: (:O)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"What does that have to do with what you just asked me?"
tibetanmethod: (:O)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a part of Dale Cooper that absolutely cannot process what just happened, and that's the part that wants to ask, How could you feel that way, knowing what happens to the women I love?

Fortunately, the logical part is still in operation. "You told him," he says slowly, "that he was welcome to return to Milliways. Where you still go. Where presumably you'll see him. Why would you say this to me now -- what are you planning to do?"
tibetanmethod: (i'll see you and you'll see me)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Silence.






"So you don't think," Cooper says, "that he's going to... remain possessive. Do you?"
tibetanmethod: (i'll see you and you'll see me)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Even if someone -- if the other party has his own bad history with the entity called Dream of the Endless."

Cooper's voice is not entirely even on the last few words.
tibetanmethod: (in need of answers)

[personal profile] tibetanmethod 2012-07-21 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"What makes you so sure?"

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