Suzy’s Strange Saga

And suddenly all your instincts cry out “DANGER.” You also remember Bobby telling you that you shouldn’t listen to William since he’s a shit stirrer and he’s certainly doing a good job here.

William seems too eager to help you given everything you’ve heard him spout about survival of the fittest and wanting to embrace pure chaos. Technically you still aren’t “family” and if you aren’t with Bobby, what’s stopping him from just gutting you and tossing your corpse along side the road or worse when you leave the compound? And that’s not even counting that creepy Aaron guy who is going to be travelling with him.

Even if he is on the up and up, you have no idea where to go. Going back home isn’t really an option, in fact going back to town sounds like a bad idea all around given what Bobby told you yesterday. And you certainly don’t want to be travelling around with William while he raises hell, since again he’s libel to “raise hell” on you.

You still don’t know about the whole wedding sacrifice, but you do know that running away with William isn’t the answer. You’re going to just have to deal with your situation another way.

You take a deep breath and hand William his keys back.

“I thank you for the offer William, but I’m staying.” You say.

William looks a little surprised at first, but then his face turns to a smile.

“Well… Tiamat certainly sent a blessing to Bobby when he met you. I hope he realizes it.” William remarks.
“If he doesn’t, I’ll be reminding him.” You answer.
“Of that I have no doubt. Okay. Well it was nice meeting you Suzy, and may Tiamat’s blessed chaos always swing in your favor.” William says and then gets up. He makes a head gesture to Aaron who apparently has been watching the pair of you the entire time.

The pair of them leave the room and you get the impression they’re not going to bother telling Bobby they’re leaving the compound either. Perhaps William figures you’ll mention to Bobby that he attempted to whisk you away, along with confronting him about the wedding stuff, which you will most certainly be doing.

As soon as you can at any rate since Bobby is still talking with Diana, or at least he was until you see her running out of the kitchen and trying to cover her face. It’s obvious she’s crying or at least about to.

Bobby soon comes out of the kitchen as well. He doesn’t look in the best of moods.

“Food’s in the kitchen, serve yourselves.” He says. Nobody says anything, except Helen who asks what’s going on when she enters the room. Bobby just waves her away and tells her to see to the children as usual then he slumps down by the chair next to you. Bobby’s family at this point heads into the kitchen, not wishing to

“It’s done.” He says.
“Well don’t look so down about it. And what’s done exactly? Did she get the message? Am I still going to have to worry about her?”
“No. For the last time no. It’s done. It’s over. I made it quite clear that it’s over between her and I. So clear in fact that she probably hates me more than you now.”
“I seriously doubt that, but do you think it’s wise to let her run around this house if she hates you?”
“(Sigh) Suzy, I’m not throwing her out and I’m not killing her okay?”
“Okay fine. If you want to live dangerously…”
“Suzy, how about this. If you REALLY hate her that much, then why don’t YOU kill her? Seriously, you have my permission if it will get you to stop bitching about it.”

You didn’t really expect Bobby to say that, but then…

“Well I suppose that would make the wedding sacrifice a lot easier.” You say which causes an eyebrow raise by Bobby.

“Great, so you know. Who told you? Wait, I know. William did right?” Bobby says.
“Yeah, I think he hoped to scare me into leaving with him…speaking of which I think he and Aaron left.” You answer.
“Figures. (Sigh) I don’t even know why I’m bothering trying to hold this family together. Most of them aren’t even here. One of them hates me, and the rest aren’t exactly sterling examples of Tiamat’s Chosen. In fact the ones that are here are probably here because it’s safe and filled with enough supplies to live comfortably.”
“Well, what’s wrong with that?”
“Nothing I suppose, but supporting about bunch of freeloaders wasn’t really part of my plan to honor Tiamat.”
“Well maybe you need to change your damn plan. I mean its still early, but if you really feel like someone isn’t pulling their weight around here, then you need to just kick their asses out, family or not. I mean you’re the boss around here and your word is supposed to be law.”

Bobby sits up a bit as you continue to speak.

“Look, you know you’re a leader and you know the head of this family. So you can’t give into all this self-doubt. You NEEDED to lay down the law to your sister Diana., but you know that’s just going to be a temporary fix. Now I think you KNOW what you’re going to have to do with her, but your past with her is preventing you from doing it, which is why you made your outburst about me doing it a few moments ago.”

Bobby continues to listen intently.

“Now, I’m not going to do it for you unless she gives me cause to, but she’s going to have to be dealt with by our wedding day. Whether that means you exiling her ass or killing her, that’s up to you. Love isn’t one-sided Bobby, and if I’m going to have to ultimately submit to your beliefs and everything that goes with it including murdering innocent people, well you’re going to make a sacrifice to me as well. If not, well you can throw me on that slab and thrust that dagger in me and get it over with.”

Bobby looks a little overwhelmed by your ultimatum. He’s never heard you speak like this before and really; you’re a little surprised you’re saying what you’re saying yourself. You’re rolling the dice and betting everything here. You think you’ve got the inner strength to go through with all this, you just hope that Bobby proves to be just as strong.

“Suzy, you are the love of my life and what you’ve just told me just confirms that Tiamat’s chaos did favor me when I met you. You’re right. I know I have to do something more permanent with my sister Diana. I’ll come to a decision tomorrow though. I think I need the rest of the day to recover from all the shit I’ve already had to go through. It’s not even night yet!”
“Well, okay. I understand. Well, should we go eat with the rest of the family?”
“Might as well.”

You and Bobby briefly kiss each other and go join the rest of the family who have congregated in the dining area. None of them say anything to you or rather none of them ask any questions if everything is okay or anything. Diana isn’t here and Bobby makes the announcement that Aaron and William have left and then tells Brandon when he’s done eating, he can go check the front gate to make sure they closed it properly.

The remainder of the day is a bit out of the norm for you since you spend it mainly with Bobby’s family. They’re surprisingly really into board games. Unsurprisingly most of the board games seem to involve conquest or killing everyone else.

While you never really played many board games before, you catch on quick thanks to your years of playing strategy games on your computer and its fun enough that it keeps your mind off other things. You even manage to win a game of Scorched Earth.

Diana never joins in, and at one point Helen (who was playing separate games with the kids) goes to check on her out of concern, but she remains in her room.

Eventually you start to get tired of socializing and you feel you’ve bonded enough with Bobby’s family for one day so you return to your own room. Bobby tells Ronald to take watch for the night and goes with you.

Before you settle down for bed, you check your phone out of curiosity to see if anyone has tried to call you.

“Somebody call you?” Bobby asks.
“Nah, though I didn’t really expect anyone to. Pretty much says it all about my ties to my own family.” You say.
“Well I think we both know you’re already with your new family now.”
“Yeah. Still, I can’t help but wonder how they’re all dealing with the situation in town. Though who knows, maybe its calmed down now. Anyway, doesn’t matter.” You say and get into bed.

Bobby follows and it doesn’t take long before he’s grabbing and grinding up against you. You return his affection and have pleasant round of passion before going to sleep.

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