"I did too," he says with a little laugh. "Does it change anything between you and me? You're my best friend, Ro. The best I've ever had. I never thought I'd be as comfortable with any friend as I am with you."
"I'd change some of my weekend plans to do that with you two again," he admits with a little grin. "Which I guess answers my question about how you're feeling about it all."
"I want to do Thanksgiving again," he says, very quietly. K is gone. K was the reason he went last year, but he has family here still. People still here he wants to celebrate. "Can we do that? Please?"
"Yeah I think I already have," he smirks. "But...I don't think we should have it at Broken Hollow. In case he wants to come home somewhere quiet partway through."
"We'd barely talked at all. And... I could barely talk at that point. I just handed him this plate full of rock hard rolls and three different casseroles and then I staggered the fuck off. Like a champ."
He laughs. "You're such a mess when you're drunk. You're lucky there's no pot here, you'll never see me as a mess." Because he is messy when he's high.
"I think he gets it now though. No explanations necessary."
"I might be a mess, but I'm a hot mess," she throws back, smirking.
It's nice to get to do that again. To let her guard down and not have to always be ready to fight for her life.
"I'm gonna offer a contract to Vanessa, too. I don't know if she'll take it, but if they want to stay together, I don't want them to have to lose each other right now too."
Jesus is still wary about the vampires but he nods--yeah. Vanessa and Carver deserve to stay together if they want. "Have you met her before? I never have."
"No. But we're going to. And regardless -" She rubs at one eye, sighs.
"Back when we were first trying to figure all this out, that was Carver's only negotiation point. He wanted space for Grayson and Vanessa. Said they were his people."
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She bounces her eyebrows when she says it, but she also nudges his knee with her foot.
"I want it to stay that way. It's important to me."
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And she understands Jesus does too, and that's fine; they can, apparently, work around that.
There's also this, which she admits to the currents drawing patterns in the surface of the water: "It's better when you love each other."
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She will run under this water, Jesus.
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"I'm not happy that's true," she admits, because he deserves more. "But you're stuck with me now."
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"Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna do that. I think it'll be good for everyone."
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"I'll bring ice cream cake just to prove I can be creative."
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"Maybe we can talk Carver into it this year."
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He relaxes around them sometimes now, but she's under no illusions about how hard that is for him.
"He didn't like coming to my party, and now things are - worse."
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Her people to be okay.
"I took him food last year. I was too drunk to remember what happened, but he was confused." Probably because she was drunk.
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So many problems could be solved by talking, and no one from their world--except Jesus--is willing to do it.
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Don't you judge her.
"We'd barely talked at all. And... I could barely talk at that point. I just handed him this plate full of rock hard rolls and three different casseroles and then I staggered the fuck off. Like a champ."
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"I think he gets it now though. No explanations necessary."
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It's nice to get to do that again. To let her guard down and not have to always be ready to fight for her life.
"I'm gonna offer a contract to Vanessa, too. I don't know if she'll take it, but if they want to stay together, I don't want them to have to lose each other right now too."
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"No. But we're going to. And regardless -" She rubs at one eye, sighs.
"Back when we were first trying to figure all this out, that was Carver's only negotiation point. He wanted space for Grayson and Vanessa. Said they were his people."
So.
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