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Dad had never gone this far before. Normally it was just a slap, backhand or forehand, brutal enough to humiliate but never enough to scar. Never to leave any lasting damage.
This was going to leave a mark. This was going to stay.
In the sultry summer of 2007, an incident occurs at the Cyprus estate, and Roman gains both a scar and a memory he will never forget.
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20 Jan 2024
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He glances at the screen before answering. "Yeah, Rome?"
He's not sure what he's expecting from his brother at this hour. Last minute hail mary ideas to tank the Gojo deal, complaints about Connor's neurotic funeral planning, an apology for the blow-up at Matsson earlier that Kendall isn't looking for, really. What he doesn't expect is Roman's voice to be shaky, a little panicked. "Ken, I think I fucked up."
or: Roman isn't handling his father's death well. Kendall is forced to deal with it.
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20 Jan 2024
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There’s a keening whine waiting for him somewhere at the back of his voice box; he can feel it there, tugging, pushing. That’s the patent Roman Roy Sound, after all. Not his strident listen-to-my-Logan-voice CALL IT, not even an incest dick joke. It’s the whine of a skinny beagle at the sight of the needle injecting it with weed killer — scared fucking stiff, though that’s what it was bred for. Coward.
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20 Jan 2024
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He can taste old wine on his tongue and there’s a hollow feeling (not hollow enough) inside him, evidence, the way he’s something of a crime scene. Shiv’s face is shiny with ointment, the aloe vera she uses when she burns. “It’s ten past midnight. Happy birthday.”
— for one summer only, Roman's ambiguous disorder manifests itself uncharacteristically enough that people notice. (that's not to say they're competent at doing anything about it.)
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20 Jan 2024
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The sentence "Shiv's being a bitch" is usually enough for Roman to shake shit like this off, but maybe it's the several consecutive jetlags, or maybe the fact that he hasn't slept since his brother blew up the only thing that gives any of them any significance in the world, but he's really not feeling up to it tonight.
But he's not hiding in the hallway. He's not. And if anyone finds him, whatever. Because they're not finding him, because he's not hiding.
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17 Jan 2024