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Oddities are individuals born with extraordinary gifts. Because of this they are hated, feared and generally persecuted across the globe. In an attempt to give them a refuge the billionaire Theodore Ashford has created Ashford Isle. Presented as a Sanctuary for the special some believe their to be much darker motives behind his generosity.
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chapter 64: I Echo that same sentiment (Daphne)
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Feb 11, 2024 15:38:04 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 11, 2024 15:38:04 GMT -5
He wondered could you have both? Could you love and still do what you needed but he knew one could not so today, today he was choosing to let her go and let her be free and hope that she would understand. You see, their time in the underground fairy palace had brought a side of him out that he had not understood in so long that he had to pull away but he did hope that one day she would understand, it was never a one sided love, it was a drop in the ocean but even the ocean washed itself ashore and had to clean itself. Still he hoped that his gift, the tools that the kiss had left her with opened her eyes for his love for her? Eternal, but she had said it herself and it was echoed here today. "A choice," he whispered into the winds as the magical circled him. He picked up a few of the sands and poured them back down. A choice that in the end would be called "An Echo of Truth." However he prefered to call it.... Tell Me You Love Me, Without Telling Me You Love Me You see Daphne Jaxon was going to do great things. The things that she would accomplish would be Echo'd throughout this timeline and many others but he had to push her and his feelings he had to push down, for the echo would forever bind them. "Echo," he said to himself. This was a turning point. "I like it," he said as he gave the winds one last gentle blow. Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 12, 2024 11:35:27 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 12, 2024 11:35:27 GMT -5
She had never liked fancy gifts but this jewelry piece that was now in her skin seemed different. The color green that it was also did not go without notice. "Hunter Green of course," she said as she shook her head. It was almost like she could hear the sounds of sand inside of her head as she looked around. "Great," she said as she went to go stand up but found her balance was off as she had to stand up on her tip toes. "Hunter, really?" she said as she turned and could see him in the distance but the lack of the balance that ran through her toes made it difficult to move so on the sand she went. "Take this off of me," she asked. The things that she did to keep her daughter hidden were above and beyond but she kept telling herself worth it. Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 12, 2024 14:51:00 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 12, 2024 14:51:00 GMT -5
"Always blaming me," he said as he walked off in the distance as the winds still gently blew around. His feelings were a mixture of spilling over and making him want to cry so no more trips for him down into that palace for a few days as he spoke. "I have not done anything to you Daphne though you get off on blaming me it would seem." If anything she was doing things to him that he had to smash down time and time again. "I am sure that will remain the basis of our relationship for time to come again and again and yet here I am, playing with you." As long as he referred to it as play time then he did not have to think of it as that god awful spending time together because that was gross as hell. "It's your ability getting tired of you sitting on it so it's not letting you move," he said as he laughed. "Though the jewelry piece is a nice touch, I can cloak it for you much like the embedding in your hands so no worries." He turned and walked towards her and once he was in distance of her, he took a seat. "I am in a good mood today figured we would play if you want." Him being in a good mood was rare, more than likely exceptional and still he was spending it with her. "Will need something from you first though and that is to know where she is." Her hiding their daughter was all fun and games until he felt like he needed to see the child which he did. "I would like to see her Daphne. I would like to." He stopped trying to figure through this feeling. "I think I need to so please do not play with me about this," he said as he fixed his glasses. "I need you to let me see her." Oh right. "Please." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 12, 2024 17:51:35 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 12, 2024 17:51:35 GMT -5
She was wondering what he wanted but it was not long before the shoe was dropped in a way. "Oh I can not do that Hunter." She turned away from him. "You are a danger to yourself and everyone else so that is not a possibility." She felt bad about it but it was what had to be done in order to protect the most important thing to ever be between them. "I know that it must have taken a lot for you to say please and that does show that you are willing to work when it is necessary but I can not do it." "I mean I can not do it without getting something first, you take me back to the palace and I will allow you to see her." Now that they were here she had to deal with him like this and this him was such an ass. "So what do you say?" she asked as she got closer to him and then hugged him. "I need help up." Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 12, 2024 21:08:23 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 12, 2024 21:08:23 GMT -5
What did she mean? Then she continued on. "You can not barter something that is ours," he said as he looked at her and then she was on him. He pushed her off and stood up as he put his hands in his pockets but the winds did began to blow around him picking up the sands as he spoke. "Get yourself up, strong woman hear you roar and all of that." "If you step back in there now I can not guarantee that you won't grow a sort of an addiction to it. It's a special place but as I told you it is also dangerous but if you want to go back don't let me stop you, you can get there yourself since you've been there once. Well a good oddity would be able to I forgot who I was talking to." Oop. He went on and spoke. "Let me show you how you could possibly use it," he said as he looked at her and gave her a quick but disgusting kiss. "Performance is mostly mind. Music, ballet, dance, intution it is like my mother would say to do something like no one is watching because at the end of the day who cares if they are," he said as he removed his glasses. "You know why my parents come to Hawaii? Because in Hawaii, they hula dance and that dance is the best of both worlds. Now one of us standing here can do it and the other can not, shame if you could I might take you back but I mean if we are bartering we both need something yes?" He shook his head. "I've seen your hips, you'll be a natural." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 13, 2024 12:28:44 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 13, 2024 12:28:44 GMT -5
"I most certainly can and I most certainly am," she said as she heard him. "Get it, you think you are better than me," she said. "Not that you are," she said as she felt his lips against hers. "Hunter," she said under her breath as he was talking and she got caught up with the conversation as she stood up. "They probably made you here too," she said as she laughed. "Over in that corner," she said as she laughed again. "Oh no I don't dance," she said as she heard him. He was a pig still as she shook her head. "On second thought forget it," she said. He was never going to take anything serious. "You can dance?" she said after letting go of her anger because she was trying to teach herself to not let him get the best of her. "Why did you kiss me?" He had never kissed her. "Did you want to?" To her it was the first kiss that they had shared but she did not think that made it special it had simply happened. Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 13, 2024 14:12:17 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 13, 2024 14:12:17 GMT -5
He rolled his eyes and he shrugged. "Does not mean it is fair but fine." He laughed and he shook his head. "I do not think that I am better than anyone but I am confident in what I can do and who I am and that is why it comes across like it does which people can not handle." Maybe, maybe not he had not asked his parents and he most certainly was not going to. "Yes Daphne I can dance." It was the one thing that he had actually liked, never minded taking those classes. He shrugged again. "I thought you wanted me too so I did," God why had he went to that fairy underground. He'd have to pull himself away from all of that later. "Focus Daphne and stop trying to distract me. Our daughter, you will let me see her yes?" he said as he turned his head to the side and pushed his hair to the side. "I'm not going to do anything I just need to see what she is like even in her small state." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 13, 2024 18:10:34 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 13, 2024 18:10:34 GMT -5
She had to think of how to answer this because Hunter was still himself still so caught up in being selfish that she knew that she needed to know better and sadly also be guarded. "I mean it all depends because sometimes I feel that you are performing for me, that no matter what we say and what we do, that this is a performance for you. That's not a man that I can allow around any child." "Then there are other times like in the underground, we need to go back." She would try not to drown him but she could make no promises that all fell on him. "It seemed real and the fact that you are underutilizing it makes me think that you are only so scared because it is real and you do not like real." Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 14, 2024 7:26:18 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 14, 2024 7:26:18 GMT -5
He listened to her as she kept talking. "I," he thought that he could easily take her back but he did not want to push his magic that far in such a short distance so he had to think as he stood up. "I do not want you addicted to that place BUT," he said as he thought about it. "I might could present you something similar to it right here without any magic involved I mean I am smart after all." He needed her to stand up however and stand extremely still. "I," he said as he looked around. "Okay, come on," he said as he took her hand and started walking towards the southeast corner of the land. "If you sit in the corner we can be civil to each other as I will be sitting in the corner as well." Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 14, 2024 8:09:54 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 14, 2024 8:09:54 GMT -5
It was honestly laughable to her the fact that he was offering to be civil but she did want to see if it could work. She carefully went and sat in the corner and watched him carefully because one too many times he had tricked her and that was the last thing that she wanted to happen as she pushed her hair back and up into a bun so that it would be out of her face. This was not even intamate and it felt scary but she was going to do her best to get through it. "Your tun," she said. Maybe if they could be civil then she would not have to worry so much about protecting her daughter so much. Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 14, 2024 8:15:26 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 14, 2024 8:15:26 GMT -5
He was still feeling these weird things but he shook it down again as he rolled his eyes. "Give me a second," he said as he took a seat and he felt the winds start to whirl gently around him. His magic was resting calmly but it did not mean that there were not some after effects as he turned to her. "Okay as long as we are sitting here, you can ask me anything but with each question the winds will slow down so you might want to ask what you really want to know in case it ends after like two or three." It was not difficult to sit here and he was not even scared of what she might ask he simply wondered if he would get to ask things in return. "So what do you want to know?" he asked as he sat still. "But Echo right? That's what you named her?" He seemed pleased with that. "Because of her ability?" He was hoping it would skip a generation but not so lucky with this one. Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 14, 2024 15:15:18 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 14, 2024 15:15:18 GMT -5
"I am the one asking the questions I thought?" she said as she laughed and then she thought about what to ask. Anything because he did not say anything about not this or not that. She did not want to fight with Hunter but her fear was still existing even as she sat on this pretty land. "Well okay." It should not be on any pressure and still she felt that it was but at least she did not feel like it was a test and she thought that meant progress forward but she could not be sure. Still what she had told him was true. "A choice." She knew that it might be something that it seemed she was driving into the ground but she did need him to understand it. There was so much that she did want to know but she wanted him to just tell her in time when he was the most comfortable with it and with her and their situation so she stood up which was harder than when she had stood up earlier because she knew that if she walked out of this there was no turning back and still she stepped out of it before she turned to him. "I don't have any questions," she finally said. It was a lie only in the fact that she was choosing to believe that he might just open up to her not because he had been asked but because he wanted to. "I don't have any questions for you Hunter." She tried to imagine what had changed from the younger him to now and she had decided that right or wrong, maybe people asked so much of him and maybe it was tiring and that pattern would not cause him to change. "Sorry," she said quietly. "I just want you to want to tell me Hunter because that is a choice and not a responsibility." She had to stand on her belief that this would work. "I am not a responsibility for you, I only hope to be a choice and if that is never going to happen then I won't ask because if I asked you anything that would be it but I am not asking because I know the answer and all the other questions, I don't want to know the answer to. I listened to that song Hunter." She also remembered him saying that she was a third of the way there, but what was there? She kept that part to herself as she shrugged. "I am sorry that what you thought would be love for your parents got ruined and confused you, because I think if that had not happened, you would not be so confused on how to do this but I get it now. So, how do we raise her when you are confused on love and I am not sure I blame you for it?" Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 14, 2024 18:15:36 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 14, 2024 18:15:36 GMT -5
"You are" he said still trying to figure it out and then there the fuck she was again breaking his magic. "Daphne," he said because that did upset him but then she was going on as women did. "Liar," he said because everyone always had questions. No that was not how this worked, he gave her the chance to ask questions then she asked them and then they were done. It was to be that simple. "No stop that, stop saying that you are sorry." God why was she emotional. "That is not our issue Daphne that is my parent's issue our issue is you and your demand to keep fighting me and then sneaking off with me to places like this." Hell if she was trying to call a spade a spade. "A choice you keep saying and you keep choosing me," he said. "It is infuriating and slightly annoying not to mention why would you blame me for it? Hell I was just a kid and honestly I do not know, I just know that we need to find a way, so what do you suggest?" Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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Feb 15, 2024 11:08:46 GMT -5
Post by Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell on Feb 15, 2024 11:08:46 GMT -5
"Well I am not sure but the one thing I am sure of is that I do not think it needs to be you or I, I honestly think it is a decision that we need to make together." She was never going to be an overbearing type but she also knew that as far as she remembered they never got along on anything but that did not mean she was against firsts. "Communication is the most important to me, what is the most important to you?" Hunter Quinzell
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Feb 15, 2024 15:39:21 GMT -5
Post by Hunter Quinzell on Feb 15, 2024 15:39:21 GMT -5
He grunted because she was asking him questions that he knew his answers mattered so he turned away from her so he could actually concentrate on his answer. "That is kind of hard to answer when you have not let me see her Daphne." A fact not a guilt trip. "I mean at the moment my answer is just the generic bullshit that any parent says but considering that there is a huge part of me that does not even want to be a parent I am not even sure how to answer that." She sighed. "If I take you back to the underground fairy palace will you bring her?" Maybe they could kill two birds with one stone which was not the most terrible way to do it in the end. "That way we can both get what we want?" He did not think that he would change his views towards parenting but at least he could see the poop factory with legs. He stayed turned away from Daphne though. "Just an idea," he said as he sighed and laid down. "This is already more difficult than I thought." There he was his feelings shedding again without his knowledge. "My normal response would be to just take her and drown her but I find that some part of me is starting to care and yet to see her this is not how I thought that this would go," he said as he put his hands behind his head, the magic flow evident as the colors ran through his palms and under his hair. Daphne "DJ" Carter-Quinzell
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