The Outcasts ((Accepting))

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"You were faking it?" Daniella asked, trying to keep the hurt out of her voice. She wasn;t sure why thinking that hurt her. But it had seemed like Syth was having fun hanging out with her. If it turned out he had just been pretending all along, really thinking how annoying and stupid she was, how pointless and dumb her idea's of fun were...Daniella swallowed nervously.

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"It wasn't you that I wasn't having fun with, it's just this century that confuses me and prevents me from... fun. When I was young....er... simple things were fun, not all of this. I've forgotten what fun is now that I'm older. But I appeared happy because I was spending time with someone I was beginning to like, a friend for the first time in my life. You understand, don't you?" Syth murmured quietly as he looked at her, his eyes appearing a bit silverish.

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Daniella gave a sigh of relief in her head. Not out loud. She didn't Syth to know about the feeling of dread in the pit of her stomach, the one worrying that he pretended to like spending tikme with her, had been lifted. She didn't want him to know that it was there in the first place. She nodded. "Yeah. I get it. Sort of. What did you do for fun when you were younger? Like, before you drank the elixir?" She asked. Maybe they could do somthing he liked to do for a change, that way she'd be sure he'd be having fun. And she'd done all this stuff anyway, it would be great to try something new.

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Syth watched her silently for a moment before he gave a quiet, long, drawn out sigh as he tried to remember back 400 years. He didn't have much luck, and shook his head. "I do not remember much of that. I was... busy, most of the time, and didn't have much time for fun, or anything in that nature." he murmured, and shook his head again as he gazed down at the ground, then looked back at her.

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"Really? Oh," Daniella said. Her eyes wandered around a little bit, taking in the scenery as they countnied to walk. Then she looked back to meet Syth's eyes again. "I wonder what it will be like four hundred years from now when I'm talking to someone from that century who just took the elixir. Will I be able to remember things like water parks and roller skating?" She shivered a little. Thinking about the future had always kind of scared her. Mostly about the enviornment, like in the movie Wall-E. Would the whole human race have to leave because of how trashed the planet was? But another that freaked her out was thinking about death. But now she didn't have to worry about that. And thinking about staying alive forever was scaring her now.

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Syth tilted his head a little bit, his hair gently sweeping to the side. "I'm sure you'll be just as perky and mad when you first met me, yelling 'Watch where you're going', even though they were standing still," he murmured, teasing her although his calm tone never changed, and smiled a little bit. "But yes, if you had fun doing something, you'll probably remember what you did. Or if something hurt you. Like how I remember my father beating me, and..." he trailed off, his small smile fading as he looked down again.

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At first Daniella was smiling softly as he spoke, but when he brought up his father, her smile faded as well as his. "I'm sorry," She said, not knowing what else to say. "Hey, um," She wasn't sure if she should say this. But she was wondering. She was tricked into drinking the elixir, but he took it by chose. "Do you ever regret taking the elixir?"

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Syth sighed and shook his head at her apology, she had nothing to do with it, he didn't get why people always apologized for something they had nothing to do with. Maybe a sympathy act. He took a deep breath at her question, and thought for the longest time. "Yes," he murmured. "I regret it everyday of my never ending life. I wake up everyday, and stare at an elixir until I get sick enough to drink one. I know the only way to kill myself is to stop drinking it, but it hurts not to,"

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Daniella nodded. "Yo ualready know my story. God, I wish I was still normal," She said bitterly. "But I can't bring myself to stop. Almost everyday I tell myself, 'I'm stopping today.' And then I start feeling dizzy, sick, it hurts. Like, pain. Stabbing pain in my heart. And I think this is it. I'm going to die. But I can't do it. I'm too weak. I drink some, to stop the pain."

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"Daniella," Syth murmured as he tilted his head, watching her, remaining silent for a moment. "You shouldn't let yourself die by not taking the elixir. You're a good person, lots of people would like you if you venture around, and I'm sure no one would be happy if you were to die. With me, no one knows who I am, and everyone I ever once knew, are dead and long gone. I wouldn't be missed at all, and that's why I wish to die. It wouldn't hurt anyone."