"So I'll send a gift basket to Taylor. She didn't put you in Zero?" He assumes he would have heard of it by then, but Taylor might not have known to call him the way Shaw does.
He laughs, but it's almost a sigh. "Do we have to talk about me as a kid? I was...I just... I was a different person then. I'm sorry if I stole from you."
"We're trying," he agrees, with a soft huff of agreement, of resignation. It's hard for him. "I've just tried for years to put distance between who I was then and who I am now. But... I got a tattoo. From a boy I liked. That's who I used to be."
He rolls up his sleeve to show her a beautiful but obviously hand pecked drawing of a Tree of Life. "I like it a lot. But I did it to impress a cute boy."
He looks away, down at his hands. "It means he won't get too attached. Makes it easier when we have to part ways. He won't really miss me when it's over."
"I'll watch for him," she agrees, but then, she was going to figure it out anyway. Jesus is an adult, he's more experienced here than she is, but that doesn't mean she isn't going to pay attention to the people he's close to here.
"Vampires aren't what the movies promised, are they?"
"Humans work that way too," she reminds him, dry. It would have been her second choice regardless, if she was lucky enough to get a second chance.
"Malcolm tried to apologize to me but it was bullshit, and Shaw doesn't think she should have to talk to me directly, but other than that people have mostly left me alone."
He frowns. "I wasn't trying to handle you or handle things for you. She was concerned you were hurt. But yeah next time I'm pretty sure she'll go straight to you."
"She said she went to you because I'm more aggressive than you are and she 'didn't want to deal with defensive posturing,'" she answers, her tone... unimpressed.
"And she didn't come to me. I contacted her. If you were having a problem with someone, would you want people to only come to me about it, to not even try to talk to you because they think you're difficult?"
"Of course not. And I don't expect you to like it either. But I don't mind helping while you figure things out. I know this place is...a lot. And the people are- difficult." Rosita isn't the only one with that label.
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She just didn't want to stop once someone else had.
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"I don't think she'll escalate."
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She knows life isn't fair. She wouldn't have really blamed the girl if she had thrown Rosita somewhere, the way she was acting.
It just wouldn't have mattered, which is why she changes the subject: "You were a cute kid."
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"We're trying, remember?"
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He rolls up his sleeve to show her a beautiful but obviously hand pecked drawing of a Tree of Life. "I like it a lot. But I did it to impress a cute boy."
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"You still like him?"
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"That's a bonus?" she asks.
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"Well," she answers finally, well aware that it's pathetic. "As long as he's kind to you."
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"Vampires aren't what the movies promised, are they?"
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Which means it's a dice throw if Rosita will get along with him, but they can cross that bridge when their feet get wet.
"I talked to Astarion. He's pretty much the only person besides you that's talked to me, and not at me."
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"He told me he's not allowed to drink from humans. I told him if he tried I'd stab him in the head, and he said I should aim for his heart."
So. That happened.
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"Malcolm tried to apologize to me but it was bullshit, and Shaw doesn't think she should have to talk to me directly, but other than that people have mostly left me alone."
Which is what she wants.
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"And Shaw's usually pretty direct? What did she do?"
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"You two tried to handle it between yourselves. And I get keeping me and Root apart, but I can answer are you okay."
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"And she didn't come to me. I contacted her. If you were having a problem with someone, would you want people to only come to me about it, to not even try to talk to you because they think you're difficult?"
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