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A Long Talk

     


    Puppet Show, Episode 20.   Finally, after the crew had given up interrogating Carmilla.  Laura and Carmilla are left alone to talk.  Laura, wanting to know everything about Carmilla shows her a little compassion and gives her a little blood, and removes the duck tape from her mouth.  Laura at this point is almost an open book so Carmilla knows most everything about her.  Carmilla begins to tell her story.  The story doesn't particularly apply to L and me at all.  It's essentially a retelling of the original book and the mistakes that Carmilla made over time.  So how does a retelling of the book have to do with me and L?  Not much but, the moment does remind me of a very important night.

        The long talk, every couple has it and it usually comes at or after a very significant moment in their relationship, but it happens.  For Carmilla and Laura, this was Carmilla's back story.  Let's be honest Laura is a bit of an open book and Carmilla is a closed book.  Now I'm guessing but, bigger conversations are to come.  For them, I don't believe this is the big talk.  More like Carmilla opening up to someone she likes.  Expressing who she is and what she had been through and giving her side of the story.  

    So for L and Me, this big conversation came on one night specifically.  It didn't start till late and was very unexpected.  L at the time was pledging a sorority and that night was one of those long nights.  So I went to bed expecting to see her the next day.  There is an old saying nothing good ever happens after midnight.  It's wrong I can verify this.  Around 1 am there was a quiet subtle knock on my door.  My roommate at the time had gone home for the weekend so I was alone.  Unlike the first time L knocked on my door, this time I answered the door.  There at the door was L and she had a look of relief on her face when I answered.    

        She walked into my room and we started to talk.  I ask how her night was and she said "miserable".  I ask.  "Why what happened?"  Usually, these nights were the highlight of L's week.  "You weren't there," L said.  A strict greek only party was held introducing pledges from both sororities and fraternities to mingle together.  L then told me all these people were having a great time and all I could think about was you not being here.  She missed me.  The thing was I was thinking about her all night too.  Now, this sounds like we're headed to our first kiss right.  That happened like a month before this (will get there).  L's and mines timelines aren't very similar to Laura and Carmilla, but a lot of the same beats happened just at different times.  So, L says to me.  "I want to be with you,"  I asked, "what do you mean?"  She then continued "I want us to be girlfriend and boyfriend." Remember those stairs (It's a Trap Kind of.)  "I would like that too," I replied.

        After this, she pulled out a change of clothes and headed for the girl's bathroom to change.  I lived on a co-ed floor quite scandalous back in OT 4 well to my parents at least.  When L got back she asked if she could stay the night already knowing the answer.  So, I got back up into bed and up came L, mind you this is a one-person bunk bed, and mine was up high.  Knowing after this grand statement there was no way either of us was going to sleep any time soon.  So we began to talk about everything all the big stuff our hopes our dreams our fears.  Most embarrassing moments what our lives were like before college.  Basically, a deep dive into who we were at that point.  We also talked about the future.  What we wanted kids and so forth.  We talked the rest of the night and as dawn broke I had to run to class as L slept peacefully in my bed till I returned.  

    For Carmilla, she already knew everything about Laura to this point, but Laura knew nothing about Carmilla other than she was an old Vampire.  So Carmilla told her everything about her life up to that point.  How she had been murdered at a young age only to be resurrected as a vampire by "Mother", how love found her only to lose it, and then finally how she ends up back with her "Mother." These long talks have a way of advancing a relationship even though we may not be ready for it or are prepared for it.  Carmilla has opened Laura’s eyes that something much bigger is happening Silas and that Carmilla may also be a victim in this plot.      



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