<div class="floatleft">(http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/tom-ford-evans/chris-evans-tom-ford-suit-01.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>David Stryker<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Outside Pool<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Sophie<br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/>“Sometimes you just have to go with your heart and do what you want to do, instead of what everyone else wants you to do.” David remarked casually.  “It's your life in the end.”<br/><br/>He fell silent for a few moments, reflecting upon her words.  The old David, pre-Break-Up, pre-Downfall, would have been just like his brother and father, pushing with a firm hand his cousin into her training of being a proper young woman.  An ass that he was then, he would have pushed and coerced her into it like the others.  But he couldn't help but to feel a bit of sympathy towards her, knowing how she didn't want to be their like he didn't want to be there in the same house.<br/><br/>And in some ways, he couldn't help but to admit, she reminded him so much of the ex, of how she, like his cousin, had grown up away from training, had questioned the need for it.  Never once did David push her into it.  He might have wanted it, might have openly said how he'd like for his own family to grow up as he had when they came of age, but never once did he force it onto her.<br/><br/>“It can be pretty tough growing up around this.  Pretty different.” He commented, reflecting quietly on the life that could have been.  “Just have to give it time.  Who knows, you might love it.  Just takes time, patience, and a bit of tenderness.”