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Post by Specs on Feb 3, 2012 0:17:00 GMT -5
Specs needed a break. He loved going to Sheepshead Races just to clear his head. And, maybe, he might just get some more money along the way. He didn't mind the extra cash - it just meant more money to send home.
After buying a ticket, he headed off towards the stands, hoping that he was lucky this time around.
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Post by Violet on Feb 3, 2012 1:26:59 GMT -5
Vi loved horses and that wasn't the only reason she went to the races. She went because Brodie liked to go or because she wanted too but that day had been to watch the horses run. They were free, they were powerful and they were amazing. As she stood on the fence rail something caught her eye and she turned to the side, raising a brow before she snuck up behind the body quiet as you could please. Reaching out and snagging his glasses off of his face.
"Well Ry yer lookin well," her brother through his studying lost the irish brough in his voice but his baby sister clung to it like a second skin. "Didja come ta see me now?" It was almost an accusation she hadn't seen him in weeks.
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Post by Specs on Feb 3, 2012 20:42:02 GMT -5
Ryan squinted, his hands reaching out to grab his glasses despite his blurry vision. It was, then, that he noticed a very familiar voice. He listened closely, his eyes widening once he figured out who it was.
"Violet?!" he muttered, both in surprise and anger. "Give me back my glasses!"
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Post by Violet on Feb 3, 2012 20:43:49 GMT -5
She put them on her nose for a moment then shook her head back and forth before putting them back on her brother, "Hey now, still soundin' all proper.." she grinned, though she knew he was mad, it didn't hurt. She often kicked Brodie out the front door-- literally.
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Post by Specs on Feb 3, 2012 20:48:21 GMT -5
"How'd you get here?" he said, still in awe that his little sister was standing right in front of him. How was she so calm right now?
"When did you get to New York? How's Ma? Everyone? Vi, you didn't tell me you were here!"
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Post by Violet on Feb 3, 2012 20:58:12 GMT -5
She stared at him for a moment and shoved her hand over his mouth, "Woah woah, lad. Didn' Da tell ya? I been here for--" Blimey how long had it been. "Ma.. Ah..." She stared at him, when he'd been sent to school all those years ago she hadn't thought that it would be this terrible. She was calm sure, but. "... I'm still... Da didn' tell ya?" Not about her being there for near the last-- god nine years? She'd been in New York nine years. "Da said ya were always too busy ta come ta mass an then have dinner with the rest of us.." He needed to sit down she she dragged him over to a bench and for some reason felt like her father had kept things away from her brother on purpose. But why? "Ya need ta sit.."
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Post by Specs on Feb 3, 2012 21:27:36 GMT -5
"Sit? Why? What's wrong?" he said, concern written all over his face. If something had happened to his family and he didn't know about it...
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Post by Violet on Feb 3, 2012 21:30:49 GMT -5
A lot had happened so she shoved him into a chair and took his hands in hers meeting his eyes, "Ry... Mam... she's..."
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Post by Specs on Feb 3, 2012 21:31:15 GMT -5
"She's... what?" he said, looking at her expectantly.
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Post by Violet on Feb 3, 2012 21:37:02 GMT -5
"Gone.." she replied quietly. "She caught influenza.. got really sick..."
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Post by Specs on Feb 3, 2012 21:39:50 GMT -5
Specs froze, unable to focus on anything else but what Violet just said. Why didn't Da tell him? Was he worried? He didn't want him to go back home? He looked down on the ground, his hands clenching into fists, completely forgetting why he came to Sheepshead in the first place.
"Why didn't you take care of her?" he said firmly, unable to look at her directly.
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Post by Violet on Feb 3, 2012 21:48:22 GMT -5
"Ry it was near six years ago," she'd been a little girl and worse, she had been. It was a wonder she hadn't died right along with her but she didn't even try to explain that to him. No she frowned and shook her head. "Maybe Da tried ta tell ya but.. he couldn't.." Their old man was a boxer and a gangster, there were a lot of things he didn't tell his younger kids. Brenna was the one that made it a point to find out, especially the older she got. "Da's in five points, came over to fight with the saints and for them in the ring... Ryan.. I didn' know ya didn' know that we were here." Most of the family if not all of it after their mother had passed.
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Post by Specs on Feb 4, 2012 1:06:59 GMT -5
"No one ever told me!" he snapped, looking at her fiercely. "So, what? Where did all the money I was sending go to? No one? Somewhere in Ireland? Or did you all waste it all at Five Points?"
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Post by Violet on Feb 4, 2012 2:51:29 GMT -5
"What money?" she asked turning her head confused, she had no idea that he'd been sending money. Hell she had no idea he was even still here. "I thought you'd gone to chicago! I thought you were visitin.." That was enough his temper had her own sparking and she got to her feet. "Ya got a problem doncha be takin it out on me.... maybe Gran's gettin it."
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Post by Specs on Feb 5, 2012 1:27:01 GMT -5
Specs sighed, his head in his hands. Maybe they did send him a letter about it. Maybe he didn't get it. Maybe Ma didn't want him to know. Maybe Da was to scared to admit what happened...
"Maybe," he muttered after a couple moments, his heart sinking. So, what the hell was he doing these past couple years? Work his ass off for nothing?
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