Heartbreak Town ||Natasha||

[Dakota King]

Dakota was miserable. Cabin leader duties were going horrible, especially after finding out that Mickey knocked up a girl just added extra stress. She was taking on more shifts in the infirmary so she could occupy herself. And thing with Ash completely fell apart before they really got going. That was just stress and Dakota wasn't sleeping welling if she was even sleeping. She was pushing herself to her breaking point. She was exhausted. She was emotionally unstable.

And on this particular day, she was past her breaking point. Her shift in the infirmary was extra hard and she ended up crashing on her bed and burying her head into her pillows. She didn't bother closing the door to her room, but she didn't think any of her siblings would be home soon. But as soon as she buried her head into her pillow, she started softly sobbing. She never cried, but she was emotionally volatile and couldn't hold it back. Not this time.

(tag: Natasha Lannister )

[Natasha Lannister]

Natasha knew better than to mess with Dakota more recently. She wasn't scared of her, but she was over her and didn't want to deal with her. Never stopped her, but she knew better. She was slowly remembering who she was, well before. She had at one point been Dakota according to people. A better Natasha version of her but nonetheless, when she walked into the cabin and heard noises coming form her room, she should have left.

But no, she peeked in and saw the unseeable. Dakota crying. A good minute of Natasha trying to comprehend / form words passed before she inwardly groaned and cursed before leaving. Minutes later she reappeared, stepping in loudly so she knew someone was in,  and placing a cup on the table by her bed. She starred at her sister for a minute, eyebrows pressed in and looked down at her. "I..There... its chocolate." Natasha said awkwardly but firmly. She had no idea how to comfort people, she had no idea why she would cry but she had seen movies since she got back. It seems human behavior is still strange to her. She looked at her sister exactingly  and furred her eyebrows at her sister. "Whatever it is get over it, you are a loud cryer and it's not fun to listen to." at least she was trying?

[Dakota King]

Dakota didn’t notice her sister enter the cabin the first time around. Her face was still buried into the pillows as the tears didn’t seem to stop coming. She was never this emotional, but everything seemed to crash down at her at once. Why couldn’t one thing just go right these last couple of weeks? But then she heard footsteps and she froze. One of her siblings was in the room and probably just witness her crying. She moved her head to the side and viciously swiped away tears from her face, but the damage was already done.

Natasha of all people witnessed her cry. She looked up at her sister and blinked a bit before her eyes wandered over to the cup on her nightstand. Did she really bring her chocolate of all things? Maybe she did have a soul. Or not. She turned her head to glare at her sister. Was she really that loud of a crier that she felt the need to point it out? She rolled her eyes as she rested her head on the pillow she was crying into. “Thanks,” she muttered as she sniffed a bit.

[Natasha Lannister]

Okay, eye rolling was a sign of Natasha not being successful in 'emotionless emotional therapy'. Alright. Natasha shook her head and put a hand to her forehead. She  wasn't very good at this. She was about 5 years out of practice in her defense. She leaned up against the wall in the room and shook her head. Of course, yet she said thanks and that made her look up at her sister. A thanks? Write this day in the record books.  Crying made her, uncomfortable. mostly because she didn't know what caused it. IF anyone upset her before she just ruined them, or ate them.

Well here went nothing. "Look." she said very coldly, before sighing. "I'm not good...at this. Its been..a really long time since I..well...I've felt anything." she said simply before shaking her head. "Before, If anyone hurt me I would have ended them, to put it nicely. But Whatever is going on you sitting here crying isn't going to help you or change it. Action does." she said crossing her arms before moving off the wall and moving closer to her half sister. "dare I ask? Or should will I be cursed to the perfume bath if I do."  Honestly, Tasha didn't know where that joking matter came from. She had been regarding more and more memories yet this seemed so familiar. Helping her sibling over....what was this feeling she felt around her?

[Dakota King]

Look. Dakota lifted her head off of the pillow as she looked at her sister. She was quite surprised that she was still in the room, watching the aftermath of her crying. She furiously swiped her hands across her face trying to get whatever was left from her crying. She probably that her face was blotchy and her eyes were puffy, but she really didn't care at the moment.

"Ending people is kind of ironic for a nurse," she muttered before she sighed and pushed her hair back and out of her face. She gave a sad smile before she shook her head. "No, I don't think I can afford to give you a perfume bath. The Hermes cabin charges too much." She sighed. All joking aside, she needed to get this off of her chest. She couldn't go to Mickey, since he was dealing with his own problems and Dakota wasn't quite as close to her other siblings. Maybe Natasha was her best chance, despite how much they despised each other.

"I was... seeing this guy," she finally said as she looked up at her sister. She wanted to keep the details as vague as possible in case her siblings wanted to seek out revenge on her behalf. "It was nothing serious. I mean, we saw each other and we kissed, but we weren't official, like boyfriend and girlfriend." She sighed as she shook her head. "Well, he told me that he loved me and I freaked out and ended things with him." She glanced off to the side as she pressed her lips together. "Now I'm wondering if I made a bad decision."

[Natasha Lannister]

Joking. Dakota was joking with her. She had a soul in her apparently and it wasn't just a void of bitch. Wow whatever had her messed up, must be serious. "good. I don't think there is enough dirt to handle another one." she said simply, as if playing along with the joke. She may have been serious though, that was a lot of sweating and baths she had to take to get rid of the first one. That was the last thing she wanted again, even know that she was trying to actually be a..well.. person.

As if the strangeness wasn't enough already, she actually started telling her what was going on. Natasha blinked about twice before she realized what her sister was saying. Relationship trouble. The stuff Aphrodite girls were sworn to for their entire life. Something in her clicked and memories of her old part flooded in like rapid shot photos. Glimpses of her old siblings, old problems. It freaked her out for a moment before she remember that Dakota had been talking to her. It all rolled like gears turning for the first time in a millennium.

"So you got a guy to fall in love with you, told him you didn't feel the same way and then now you feel bad about it." she said working over the information in her mind. She thought it over for a second before taping a fist into the palm of her hand. "Sounds like you messed thing up." she said simply before turning slightly more serious at her sister "For you, not for him.  Sounds like you were settled on the idea of not loving him, so when he said that you didn't even bother to see what your own feelings were saying." she said before looking around the room. "You know for the entire time I got back from camp after we met, I was trying to find a way to take you down a notch. Mess with someone you loved or liked. Makes sense now though." she said after scanning the room, just as she thought. Not a sign of anything she cared about. "You've probably never been in love other than with a horse." she said before looking back at her half sister. "Not that it matters. Just plays into the fact that you got scared and messed it up. So you can sit here and cry or go talk to said boy before he has time to ponder over a broken heart scar."

[Dakota King]

Did she make a bad decision? Dakota didn't know but something was completely eating away at her and she couldn't put her finger on it. However, as she let Natasha process all that information she gave her, she looked up at her with wide eyes as she managed to come up with a solution. Was she in love? That wasn't right. That couldn't be right. Dakota never went into a relationship looking for love or else why would she break it off when those three little words came out to play. But Ash... No. That wasn't it. It couldn't be it. She wasn't in love. She had things to do and a boy was just one of those distractions if things got too serious.

Dakota shook her head as she looked at her sister. "I don't think that's it, Natasha," she said with a bit of a a shrug as she glanced off to the side. "I'm not in love with him. There's no way I could be," she insisted, but it was something she didn't quite believe herself. "There's no way I'm in love with him. And I don't know if I should see him again. I usually don't see guys after I break it off with them. It makes things a lot... easier. So I don't think I should go talk to him or whatever."