Suzy’s Strange Saga
You already put up with one bullying asshole of an older sister who basically threw you out your house, you’ll be damned if you’ll let someone else do it again.
You turn your head to address Diana.
“Hey, you know what your brother also realized? That I’m more fun in the bed than you are. Told me you were about as fun as fucking a log and about as lively too. Yeah, I’m crying alright, I’m crying tears of laughter at your fucking stupidity if you actually think you have a chance at getting Bobby back.”
If Diana were a cartoon character you’d imagine this would be the part where steam shoots out of her head and her face goes completely red.
“You’re fucking dead blondie!” Diana shouts and runs at you with the knife in hand.
You grab one of the plates on the table and throw it at her. She dodges, but it’s enough to get her a bit off balance while you grab a fork and plunge it into the side of her arm.
“Agh SHIT!” she shouts , but manages to swipe at you with her knife which barely misses your face. You don’t have time to retrieve your fork from her arm.
You throw another plate at her, which causes her to drop her knife when she blocks her face with her hands. She recovers quickly however and pulls the fork from her arm and lunges at you with it.
As the pair of you struggle, you and Diana have made enough noise for others to take notice of it. Helen comes walking into the room with a couple of kids behind her and freaks out.
“Wha…Stop! Stop it! Don’t fight!” she exclaims and then screams for help and runs over to attempt to disarm her sister.
“Please Diana, don’t…” Helen utters before Diana shoves her aside. At least this allows you to grab Diana’s wrist and slam it hard on the edge of the table, causing her to drop the fork. Doesn’t stop her from punching you with her free hand though.
Helen once again tries to pull the two of you apart, but fails to do so. She ends up shouting at the cheering children who are enjoying the violent display to go fetch help.
Meanwhile Diana is slightly getting the better of you in this fight as she lands a kick to your stomach, flooring you. You wheeze and have a hard time catching your breath.
“You actually thought you could challenge me? What was that about me being the stupid one?” Diana taunts as she picks up a nearby chair. You barely manage to roll out of the way when she tries to bring it down on your head.
Desperate to gain the advantage again, you struggle to get back up and start throwing plates at her again. She manages to deflect them with the chair, but then with all your energy you charge at her and holding on to the other end of the chair you slam her into the wall.
You manage to pull the chair away and then it’s just you and her again. At first you’re scratching, punching and slapping each other upright and then soon the pair of you are rolling on the floor.
“By Tiamat’s Chaotic Cunt, quick grab ‘em both!” you hear a male voice shout.
A mass of various arms and hands grab you and Diana and after a bit of prying, the would be peacemakers succeed in keeping you and Diana from doing anymore damage.
“I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU AND I’M NOT FUCKING LEAVING!” you scream at Diana who is being pulled away by Helen and another well dressed man you don’t recognize.
“Whoa, easy! Easy! I gotcha.” The male voice says that spoke earlier. You look and see the one who has pulled you away from Diana and see a scruffy looking man.
“Let go of me!” you exclaim and pull away from the man who lets you go.
“Okay, okay, you’re free, now I heard you two don’t like each other, but already? What the hell happened?”
At this point you and Diana both start accusing each other of starting the fight. After some shouting you demand to know where Bobby is.
“Bobby isn’t here. He actually left an hour ago to go gather some stuff from the old house. (Sigh) I wish he was here though, because this is definitely his problem not mine.” The scruffy man says.
“Yeah, well who the fuck are you anyway?” you exclaim.
“Wow, you’re actually a little different than I expected considering what Bobby has said about you. Though if you need to the introductions, I’m William. Mr. fancy over there is Brandon.” William remarks.
“Hey.” Brandon says.
Diana interrupts this temporary break in the hostilities by attempting to attack you again, but Brandon and Helen manage to hold her back, meanwhile William grabs you since you attempt to defend yourself.
“Let me go! Why the fuck are you all holding me back?! You should be letting me kill this fucking outsider and serving her heart up to Tiamat!” Diana exclaims.
“Yeah, while that would normally be the plan, you know damn well this is Bobby’s bride to be and he’s the head of the family. Now I know your pissed about that but them’s the rules.” William remarks.
“Shut the fuck up William you don’t know shit about how I feel! And since when do you give a shit about the rules for anything?” Diana says.
“Okay, I’ll give you both of those. However I DO respect your brother and he loves this woman so you and nobody else will be sacrificing or harming her in any way…besides given how she was fighting, I’d say she shows promise of fitting right in in this family.” William laughs.
Diana shakes her head, fumes and huffs about her situation. She looks like she’s about to attack you again, but instead she pushes Helen out of the way and storms off. Despite being pushed Helen follows her sister in an effort to console her.
“Well. That was exciting. If we’re all done here, I’ll be checking on Veronica and making sure the young ones aren’t getting into the armory or something. Um, nice meeting you Suzy.” Brandon remarks straightening out his suit and walks away.
You sit down on a nearby chair rubbing the upper left side of your face, which is probably sporting a bruise or soon will be. You still feel angry, but you’re too tired to go chasing after Diana at this moment. You notice William still lingering around and staring at you.
“What?!” you ask.
“Okay, just settle down now. I’m not the enemy here.” William remarks.
“Maybe not, but I don’t really care for your staring right now.”
“Fair enough. Like I said, you’re just much different than what I expected. Bobby mentioned to me you were this gentle quite girl. More like Helen actually. Never expected you to be giving Diana a good fight. On your second day here no less.”
“Yeah, well everyone has their limits.”
“Guess that’s true too, though I’m sure you know why Diana doesn’t like you.”
“Yeah I know, and you know what? That’s tough shit and she needs to just get the fuck over it. Bobby wants to marry ME. Not her. It isn’t my fault that she’s not woman enough for him. To my understanding she had YEARS with him. If she couldn’t hang on to him with that much of a head start, I’d say the problem was with her, not me.”
William smiles at your remark.
“Man, I wasn’t sure if I’d like you, but shit if you weren’t Bobby’s bride to be, I’D marry you. Well if I was the marrying type. Anyway, I’d say you handled the situation with Diana the only way you could have. She at least knows she can’t just bully you like she does with poor Helen. Still, I’d watch out. It isn’t over with her. She’s not going to just let this go.”
“I’m going to tell Bobby about this and he’s going to just have to straighten her out once and for all.”
“Well, that MIGHT work in the short term, but Diana doesn’t let go of grudges and given that you’ll officially become family soon, she’s likely to ignore him. Look, it’s like this. Diana is definitely going to try to do something to you before you can marry Bobby because if she succeeds in getting you out of the picture before that happens, she won’t suffer any repercussions. Granted Bobby will probably be pissed at her and she’ll get passed over for Helen I suppose, but as a follower of Tiamat she technically has got the right to kill an outsider. It’s just out of respect for Bobby that we accept you.”
“Okay, so as soon as Bobby gets back, I’m going to demand he marry me now.”
“Heh, well due to some sort of alignment of the stars on Friday I don’t think it’s going to be moved forward. Though, given how pissed Diana is about all this, I really wouldn’t put it past her to just wait years to get revenge on you and make it look like an accident or make up some sort of bullshit about it being Tiamat’s will or something.”
“So…what…am I going to have to kill her to get any fucking peace?” you blurt out.
William waves his hand down a bit as if to tell you to be quiet and looks around.
“Shhh, don’t talk that way out loud. You’re not officially family yet. You talk like that around some of the others here and they’ll throw you on the sacrificial altar. Hell, even Helen would probably go tell on you for talking like that.” William says.
“What the hell? What about Bobby? Doesn’t his leadership mean anything?!”
“Well yeah, but in case you hadn’t noticed, he’s very observant of certain rules and rituals. As much as he loves you, I don’t even he would be able to help if you actually killed Diana.”
“Well I gotta do something! I can’t just sit around with a thumb up my ass constantly looking over my shoulder thinking Diana’s going to do something to me.”
“I know and I get it. (Sigh) Quite frankly if I was running things, I’d go back to the old ways of Tiamat where we had less rules and ritual and more adherence to primal urges. What I’d do is have you and Diana enter a steel cage and nobody left until one of you was dead, but that’s me.”
“Great. Glad to know I’d be better off under a more anarchic regime.” You say with a tone of defeat.
William exhales deeply and then speaks.
“Well blondie, this is how I see it. You can either hold out until Friday after which point you can probably get rid of Diana a little easier or at least with less repercussions. Or you can, shall we say…find an opportunity before then. I’m not saying anymore, but if you really feel like you’re in immediate danger then you know what to do.”
With those words, William leaves you alone to ponder his advice.
You turn your head to address Diana.
“Hey, you know what your brother also realized? That I’m more fun in the bed than you are. Told me you were about as fun as fucking a log and about as lively too. Yeah, I’m crying alright, I’m crying tears of laughter at your fucking stupidity if you actually think you have a chance at getting Bobby back.”
If Diana were a cartoon character you’d imagine this would be the part where steam shoots out of her head and her face goes completely red.
“You’re fucking dead blondie!” Diana shouts and runs at you with the knife in hand.
You grab one of the plates on the table and throw it at her. She dodges, but it’s enough to get her a bit off balance while you grab a fork and plunge it into the side of her arm.
“Agh SHIT!” she shouts , but manages to swipe at you with her knife which barely misses your face. You don’t have time to retrieve your fork from her arm.
You throw another plate at her, which causes her to drop her knife when she blocks her face with her hands. She recovers quickly however and pulls the fork from her arm and lunges at you with it.
As the pair of you struggle, you and Diana have made enough noise for others to take notice of it. Helen comes walking into the room with a couple of kids behind her and freaks out.
“Wha…Stop! Stop it! Don’t fight!” she exclaims and then screams for help and runs over to attempt to disarm her sister.
“Please Diana, don’t…” Helen utters before Diana shoves her aside. At least this allows you to grab Diana’s wrist and slam it hard on the edge of the table, causing her to drop the fork. Doesn’t stop her from punching you with her free hand though.
Helen once again tries to pull the two of you apart, but fails to do so. She ends up shouting at the cheering children who are enjoying the violent display to go fetch help.
Meanwhile Diana is slightly getting the better of you in this fight as she lands a kick to your stomach, flooring you. You wheeze and have a hard time catching your breath.
“You actually thought you could challenge me? What was that about me being the stupid one?” Diana taunts as she picks up a nearby chair. You barely manage to roll out of the way when she tries to bring it down on your head.
Desperate to gain the advantage again, you struggle to get back up and start throwing plates at her again. She manages to deflect them with the chair, but then with all your energy you charge at her and holding on to the other end of the chair you slam her into the wall.
You manage to pull the chair away and then it’s just you and her again. At first you’re scratching, punching and slapping each other upright and then soon the pair of you are rolling on the floor.
“By Tiamat’s Chaotic Cunt, quick grab ‘em both!” you hear a male voice shout.
A mass of various arms and hands grab you and Diana and after a bit of prying, the would be peacemakers succeed in keeping you and Diana from doing anymore damage.
“I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU AND I’M NOT FUCKING LEAVING!” you scream at Diana who is being pulled away by Helen and another well dressed man you don’t recognize.
“Whoa, easy! Easy! I gotcha.” The male voice says that spoke earlier. You look and see the one who has pulled you away from Diana and see a scruffy looking man.
“Let go of me!” you exclaim and pull away from the man who lets you go.
“Okay, okay, you’re free, now I heard you two don’t like each other, but already? What the hell happened?”
At this point you and Diana both start accusing each other of starting the fight. After some shouting you demand to know where Bobby is.
“Bobby isn’t here. He actually left an hour ago to go gather some stuff from the old house. (Sigh) I wish he was here though, because this is definitely his problem not mine.” The scruffy man says.
“Yeah, well who the fuck are you anyway?” you exclaim.
“Wow, you’re actually a little different than I expected considering what Bobby has said about you. Though if you need to the introductions, I’m William. Mr. fancy over there is Brandon.” William remarks.
“Hey.” Brandon says.
Diana interrupts this temporary break in the hostilities by attempting to attack you again, but Brandon and Helen manage to hold her back, meanwhile William grabs you since you attempt to defend yourself.
“Let me go! Why the fuck are you all holding me back?! You should be letting me kill this fucking outsider and serving her heart up to Tiamat!” Diana exclaims.
“Yeah, while that would normally be the plan, you know damn well this is Bobby’s bride to be and he’s the head of the family. Now I know your pissed about that but them’s the rules.” William remarks.
“Shut the fuck up William you don’t know shit about how I feel! And since when do you give a shit about the rules for anything?” Diana says.
“Okay, I’ll give you both of those. However I DO respect your brother and he loves this woman so you and nobody else will be sacrificing or harming her in any way…besides given how she was fighting, I’d say she shows promise of fitting right in in this family.” William laughs.
Diana shakes her head, fumes and huffs about her situation. She looks like she’s about to attack you again, but instead she pushes Helen out of the way and storms off. Despite being pushed Helen follows her sister in an effort to console her.
“Well. That was exciting. If we’re all done here, I’ll be checking on Veronica and making sure the young ones aren’t getting into the armory or something. Um, nice meeting you Suzy.” Brandon remarks straightening out his suit and walks away.
You sit down on a nearby chair rubbing the upper left side of your face, which is probably sporting a bruise or soon will be. You still feel angry, but you’re too tired to go chasing after Diana at this moment. You notice William still lingering around and staring at you.
“What?!” you ask.
“Okay, just settle down now. I’m not the enemy here.” William remarks.
“Maybe not, but I don’t really care for your staring right now.”
“Fair enough. Like I said, you’re just much different than what I expected. Bobby mentioned to me you were this gentle quite girl. More like Helen actually. Never expected you to be giving Diana a good fight. On your second day here no less.”
“Yeah, well everyone has their limits.”
“Guess that’s true too, though I’m sure you know why Diana doesn’t like you.”
“Yeah I know, and you know what? That’s tough shit and she needs to just get the fuck over it. Bobby wants to marry ME. Not her. It isn’t my fault that she’s not woman enough for him. To my understanding she had YEARS with him. If she couldn’t hang on to him with that much of a head start, I’d say the problem was with her, not me.”
William smiles at your remark.
“Man, I wasn’t sure if I’d like you, but shit if you weren’t Bobby’s bride to be, I’D marry you. Well if I was the marrying type. Anyway, I’d say you handled the situation with Diana the only way you could have. She at least knows she can’t just bully you like she does with poor Helen. Still, I’d watch out. It isn’t over with her. She’s not going to just let this go.”
“I’m going to tell Bobby about this and he’s going to just have to straighten her out once and for all.”
“Well, that MIGHT work in the short term, but Diana doesn’t let go of grudges and given that you’ll officially become family soon, she’s likely to ignore him. Look, it’s like this. Diana is definitely going to try to do something to you before you can marry Bobby because if she succeeds in getting you out of the picture before that happens, she won’t suffer any repercussions. Granted Bobby will probably be pissed at her and she’ll get passed over for Helen I suppose, but as a follower of Tiamat she technically has got the right to kill an outsider. It’s just out of respect for Bobby that we accept you.”
“Okay, so as soon as Bobby gets back, I’m going to demand he marry me now.”
“Heh, well due to some sort of alignment of the stars on Friday I don’t think it’s going to be moved forward. Though, given how pissed Diana is about all this, I really wouldn’t put it past her to just wait years to get revenge on you and make it look like an accident or make up some sort of bullshit about it being Tiamat’s will or something.”
“So…what…am I going to have to kill her to get any fucking peace?” you blurt out.
William waves his hand down a bit as if to tell you to be quiet and looks around.
“Shhh, don’t talk that way out loud. You’re not officially family yet. You talk like that around some of the others here and they’ll throw you on the sacrificial altar. Hell, even Helen would probably go tell on you for talking like that.” William says.
“What the hell? What about Bobby? Doesn’t his leadership mean anything?!”
“Well yeah, but in case you hadn’t noticed, he’s very observant of certain rules and rituals. As much as he loves you, I don’t even he would be able to help if you actually killed Diana.”
“Well I gotta do something! I can’t just sit around with a thumb up my ass constantly looking over my shoulder thinking Diana’s going to do something to me.”
“I know and I get it. (Sigh) Quite frankly if I was running things, I’d go back to the old ways of Tiamat where we had less rules and ritual and more adherence to primal urges. What I’d do is have you and Diana enter a steel cage and nobody left until one of you was dead, but that’s me.”
“Great. Glad to know I’d be better off under a more anarchic regime.” You say with a tone of defeat.
William exhales deeply and then speaks.
“Well blondie, this is how I see it. You can either hold out until Friday after which point you can probably get rid of Diana a little easier or at least with less repercussions. Or you can, shall we say…find an opportunity before then. I’m not saying anymore, but if you really feel like you’re in immediate danger then you know what to do.”
With those words, William leaves you alone to ponder his advice.