Boundless Limits {B.Durran}

18

"Tell us. Tell us. Tell us."

November has only gotten more annoying with what happened with Ruairi, Tierney's squad won't let her forget about that conversation with him, won't let her forget what they had heard.

Even the squad members who weren't present sought an answer after hearing about it from the others.

"It's nothing, Ruairi is just an asshole," Tierney tells Ridoc who sits across the table from her, where he's reading over her half of the essay for history and jotting down points and sentences to semi-copy from instead of doing the entire assignment themselves. After all, sharing is caring.

"Tier!" Ridoc whines, his eyes still glued on the parchment. "If it's nothing, tell me."

"No," Tierney replies nonchalantly, placing down his essay and sliding it across the table to him, taking her book she begins to write up the draft looking at the notes on a spare piece of paper.

Ridoc purses his lips and looks up from the paper, his eyes softening at her, his expression falling. "Do you not trust us enough with this information? Imogen, Bodhi, Garrick," He lists, "Probably more, know what happened. Why can't we?"

"Are they acting? Are they doing anything to help me with this?" She asks, "No. Because it's nothing and there's nothing anyone can do."

"Why are you going to make him feel the pain you went through then?" Ridoc asks, "What has he done to make them cry? Who is them? What has that asshole done to make you mad enough to hold such a grudge and make such a vow?"

Tierney sighs, finally looking at Ridoc and softening at his gaze. "Thank you for worrying about me, thank you for showing your concern, really." She tells him, smiling softly. "But let it go. I'm not trying to protect you, I'm not trying to deceive you in any way, I can't talk about it."

"Can't or won't?" Ridoc asks, cocking his head to the side.

"Can't," Tierney replies, looking back at the parchment and letting the words flow making the essay different enough from Ridoc's that the professors can't pull them up for cheating. "No one's threatening me if that's what you're thinking. That 'nothing' that happened isn't something I can talk about."

Ridoc sighs and nods, "Fine. But if this gets any bigger I'm going up to someone that knows, whether that's Rauiri, Fola or Anam."

"Anam?" She asks with a small smile, raising a brow in his direction.

"She can see your memories so she'll know what happened." Ridoc points out, "I don't have the balls to go up to her and ask," He says, making Tierney laugh, "But I'll just ask Aotrom to ask for me."

"Will she answer you?" Tierney asks, directing the question to both Ridoc and Anam.

"Depends." Anam answers truthfully as Ridoc shrugs, "If this gets dangerous for you to keep to yourself, I'll tell him."

"Woah, spreading my private information like that." Tierney thinks aloud to the Red, smirking in her head. "It can't get more dangerous than it already is."

Anam snorts at her words, "I hope she does, and truthfully, I can only hope." Ridoc sighs heavily, shaking his head and turning his attention back to the parchment in front of him. "Well, if you won't answer that, answer me this." He says, "When are you getting with Durran?"

Tierney chokes on her spit and places a hand on her chest as she recovers. "The fuck?" She coughs, "Never. Nope. Not happening."

"Lier!" Ridoc sings, not caring for the looks the two are getting from Tierney's reaction and Ridoc's words. "There's sexual tension between you two and you can't deny it. I have eyes."