"It's not a secret," she protests. If he asked her about it, if Amelia said something or if it came up otherwise, Rosita wouldn't deny it.
"But I don't see why I'd need to go running to tell him either. Especially when talking about it fucked him up twice already on top of the actual thing."
"It doesn't have to be an in depth discussion." He looks at her evenly. "It's okay for him to know you care about him and you've got his back, Ro. It might even be good for him to hear it."
She looks back at him, and this isn't even a hard thing. It's nothing she's ashamed of, nothing she needs back from anyone, nothing even complicated on the face of it really, and still she wants to dig in her heels.
She doesn't know why. "He knows I care about him."
"Then why the hesitance about this? Is it because she's one of Grayson's?" He doubts that. Rosita is from Alexandria, they don't care much about that sort of diplomacy.
He has, for the record, never been punched for this behavior. Not that someone along the line hasn't tried, but Jesus is fast and he pays attention even when he seems relaxed.
Rosita shrugs; she would have done it anyway. She's not as forgiving as Jesus. Blood was owed after the way she saw Carver react even after the fact, heard the sound of his voice as he tried to explain and couldn't.
"Turns out we speak the same language after all." Pain was owed to even begin to feel like this could be healed from in a way that didn't end with one or more deaths.
"You're on good terms with her now? She's not going to come after you? Or him, for it?" Because that's the downside to all this: now Amelia knows how far Rosita will go for Carver.
"That's part of why I'm so pissed about it, you know?"
This is more familiar ground. This feels more like Jesus is back on side with her rather than poking at her decisions.
"She's from a different world than us but she thinks the same way. We're square now. We can move on from it if she keeps to her side of the line and I keep to mine. I liked her when we talked before."
"Is she invited to the get together when we have it?" She's one of Carver's, but Jesus hasn't thought much about the guest list beyond the obvious suspects.
Rosita's answer is immediate, because she's not one of Carver's, and things are going to be hard enough with just the core people. She expects things to be hard enough.
That's an easy enough thing to agree with. Carver likely doesn't want to be in the same space as Amelia more than he has to for the Crucible. "Okay. So it's you and me, Carver and Grayson. Vrenille and Vanessa too?"
"That's what I was figuring. I think that's enough for moving forward with." She tips her head at him, raising an eyebrow: "You don't want K or Drake there?"
"Because you like him the most so I assumed you'd trust him most in the room." Had been his reasoning. "I like them all, I'm happy to have any or all of them here."
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"But I don't see why I'd need to go running to tell him either. Especially when talking about it fucked him up twice already on top of the actual thing."
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She doesn't know why. "He knows I care about him."
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In fact it's another part of why she stepped in.
"But he does. It's why he's keeping peace even though he shouldn't have to."
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It's a losing tactic and she knows that, but every time she offers something, Jesus hands her back a question.
"Maybe. Yes. Let's go with yes. It's not that I don't want him to know, it's that I don't see a point in specifically going to tell him."
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She would. But things between her and Jesus are different: if Jesus got into a fight with someone, she'd want to know so she could back him up.
"And it wasn't a fight. I made myself clear, I hit her one time, and we're on the same page now. She says."
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He gives her a quizzical look. "You hit her?"
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"Yeah? I should've done more, but this isn't home."
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"Turns out we speak the same language after all." Pain was owed to even begin to feel like this could be healed from in a way that didn't end with one or more deaths.
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"But that's part of why I need you to keep an eye on them when they have to be in the same building together."
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He doubts Amelia will do anything, but you never know, and he doesn't know her.
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This is more familiar ground. This feels more like Jesus is back on side with her rather than poking at her decisions.
"She's from a different world than us but she thinks the same way. We're square now. We can move on from it if she keeps to her side of the line and I keep to mine. I liked her when we talked before."
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Rosita's answer is immediate, because she's not one of Carver's, and things are going to be hard enough with just the core people. She expects things to be hard enough.
"Unless it's Carver doing it, no."
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"That's what I was figuring. I think that's enough for moving forward with." She tips her head at him, raising an eyebrow: "You don't want K or Drake there?"
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"I just wasn't sure how big or small you wanted the get together to be, now that Grayson's missing two of his people."
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