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Well, you're already here, so you may as well keep observing!

Once the two of them are inside, and each takes another cautious look around at the empty stone walls and the dirt floor, Amelia glares daggers at Harmony as she says, "Save any rehearsed non-apology you were going to spew out. I just wanna know three things from you about all this."

Harmony's face twitches in a way that you have come to recognize is her frustration over being thrown off whatever game plan she had in mind. "And what are they?"

"First of all," Amelia snarls, raising her forefinger, "Did you really not know about what me and Gloria's... rivalry was like?"

"No," Harmony replies, still frustrated but standing firm as she crosses her arms under her chest and meets Amelia's glare with her own, "I probably should have surmised something more was happening based on your OTHER relationships but I only ever saw your track and field results that were on the public record."

Amelia nods before raising a second finger. "Second question then. If you HAD know, would you have still used it?"

Harmony outright growls, baring her teeth at the skinnier girl as she snaps, "What kind of woman do you TAKE me for?!"

"The kind who doesn't care about the feelings of the people she wants to stomp on so they get out of her way. A heartless bitch who'll say and do ANYTHING to keep herself on top!"

That seems to hit something in Harmony and, for a moment, her shoulders sag as she looks away from Amelia. "I..." she hesitantly replies, "would like to think I am above such... unsavory tactics. I... am an Ashcroft, after all. Those at the top need not stoop down so low..."

Amelia snorts. "Sounds like even YOU don't believe that very much."

Now it is Harmony's turn to snort, turning her back to Amelia as she is now very interested at one particularly large cobblestone in the wall. "Just ask your third question so we can be done with this."

Amelia closes her eyes, taking a deep, shuddering breath as she fights down her own temper. It is actually a little upsetting to see how much she is trying to hold back her own anger. Her fists are clenched so tightly that her knuckles are turning white and she visibly shakes for a moment before regaining her cool. "Fine," she says once the worst of her rage has subsided, "Then tell me... is this half-assed apology or explanation or whatever the hell it is you're going for, something YOU want to do or something HE told you to do?"

Harmony stiffens and you blink in surprise, not having expected to come up as a topic... or at least not in specifically this context. She turns around to fact Amelia once again, still angry herself but in a much more petulant way. "Why would you EVER think I would let some... some WORM tell me what to do?!"

"Because you're as much his bitch as I am!"

You fight down making a gasping **** and you feel your pocket rustle as Tara sits up, suddenly a lot more interested in the conversation she had been only half paying attention to up until this moment. If you are surprised, Harmony is completely floored by the proclamation. Her face turns beet red and she pretty much loses her voice for several seconds as only a few sputtering squawks escape her lips before she can finally **** out, "H-H-H-HOW DARE Y-Y-Y-YOU!"

"Oh come on," Amelia smiles, but more one of satisfaction from hitting a sore spot than anything friendly, "I saw your invitation for a free fuck session AND know that he took you up on it. Now, after what should have been a wham-bam-thank you ma'am one and done you're suddenly checking up on him out of concern for his well being? Yeah, no. You want more. Bet you haven't been able to fully stop thinking about how good it felt when he stuck it in you ever since."

It is not a question. The confident way Amelia says it makes it clear she is stating it as a fact... and it is a fact that again brings another slump to Harmony's shoulders even as she yells, "I AM NOT SOME VAPID PENIS ADDICT! I'M NOT LIKE YOU!"

"Never said you were like me," Amelia replies, the cruel, suddenly calmer smile on her face growing a bit unnerving as she takes a few steps closer to Harmony, "Just that we share a similar interest. And you still haven't answered my question."

After a few quiet moments of the two continuing to glare at each other, Harmony takes her own turn to close her eyes and take a deep breath before responding. "... He did not order me to do anything. This was my decision to make," she says, pausing before adding, "Though... how angry he was in the moments after you left was what first made me consider it."

"So even if he didn't demand you do it," Amelia responds, "It was still more for his sake than mine."

"I..." Harmony starts to say before stopping and frowning, though it is more of a self reflective one, "... suppose it was. I do not like you very much. You are so... crass. But please believe me that, after the consideration was in my head I truly did begin to think that I had no right to rip open such a personal wound as I did, accidental or not. So for that unbecoming action I am... sorry."

The two women fall silent, still glaring but somehow it feels as if at least some of the anger in the moment has dissipated. "I don't like you very much either," Amelia finally says, "Your head is shoved way too far up your ass most of the time... but I appreciate you being honest with me. That matters to me more than the fact you're doing this to smooth things over with him than any real concern for me."

There is another pause before Harmony awkwardly asks, "So what now? This... does not seem like it has solved the root problem."

"Apologies are usually just the start for making up with someone," Amelia sighs, now looking a bit more like her normal self as she takes another few steps towards Harmony, "But you're right. We probably should find some way to co-exist, both since we're in some of the same classes AND because I don't have any intention of giving up Stud's dick... and I don't think you do either."

"My situation regarding that Worm is more complex than yours," Harmony huffs, now also looking a bit more like her normal, haughty self again, "Yet you are not wrong about the need for co-existence, either."

Amelia suddenly places her hands on Harmony's shoulders, having gotten close enough to do so and looks directly into the blonde's green eyes with her own blue orbs. "Then for the sake of that," she says, "Let's try making out."

Once again, you have to struggle to suppress the gasp of surprise that wants to tear itself from your throat, Tara now looking even more interested at this unexpected turn. You had only been JOKING about that in your image session with Harmony... but at least the real Amelia is asking first?

For her part, Harmony stiffens like a board, her eyes widening in disbelief as she stares back at Amelia. Too shocked for any of her usual insults or proclamations, all she can get out is, "W-W-W-What the-- WHY?!"

"Because if we're both gonna be fucking him," Amelia replies her smile growing, "We gotta be able to be comfortable around each other. Especially if a day comes where he wants to fuck us both at the same time. So getting this kind of awkward stuff outta the way might help... and who knows, we might both enjoy it."

Harmony seems to be processing the surrealism of the the situation and cannot answer right away. Eventually, she licks her lips and nods once "T-That he might suggest that is not impossible," she agrees, "Or that either of us might find it impossible to resist going along. S-So... very well. Let's... try. But you'll stop the second I say no more, understood?"

"Of course," Amelia coos, starting to lean in for a kiss.

As you continue to watch, unable to believe this is all actually happening yourself, you wonder...