It's late when Godric comes back to find Annie, hopefully after her shift at the White Elephant. "Hey," he calls out as he steps onto her boat. "Are you still awake?"
Because if not, he's just going to curl up in bed beside her.
"I'm not gonna rag on your boyfriends. I don't want to put you in the middle." But it does bear some explanation. "I told Sweeney because he's been so big on, so supportive, of me being an alpha again. A wolf queen. And Dorian was kind of an asshole about it so I was a little down on myself."
"Dorian is an asshole. And I would like if you would tell me so I can put him in his place. But Annie - I love him as I loved Quentin. As I even loved Jedao. But he is not you and he is not Archer. And I would rather you tell me the truth than worry about putting me in the middle."
He runs fingers through her hair. He takes a moment to breathe her in.
"You do have a type," she teases, her voice tinged with the same warmth she always feels when he says that. "I like you being happy. I like you having your people. I never want to be a reason you don't have them."
"I want to be with good people. Dorian doesn't have to be an asshole to you," he points out. "But I did talk to him and I hope it doesn't happen again."
He sighs.
"But Sweeney took offense to me being with Dorian still, even after he told me what I did."
Which Godric - hates. Not because Godric is afraid to drop someone for Annie, but because he spent the better part of a year in prison, relying solely on him.
"Don't," he tells her softly. "It's something he and I will work through or we won't. But there's no reason for you to be involved other than to know."
"I don't know why. Things are so good here. We're free here." She has bad days herself, but she never loses sight of that fact. "I don't know what to do."
He sits up and looks down at her in the darkness. "It's permanent," he says. "Unless the memory is asked back. Glamour is used for memory manipulation and for - making someone do something."
"I probably would've asked anyway. But if I went back to being that girl, the human one, here I wouldn't make it." She's fought hard to survive here and however bleak things seem sometimes, she has put the work in and she likes herself for having done so.
"You are who you are because of what has happened, what you've been through. To erase all of that would change you," he agrees, holding fast to her, glad that she's since changed her mind. "Did I ever tell you what Jedao gave me for Christmas? Before he left?"
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Because if not, he's just going to curl up in bed beside her.
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"I saw Sweeney tonight."
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"Good day or bad day?" She doubts he's been around Sweeney enough to notice, but there have been some very bad days lately.
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He kisses her shoulder. "You should have told me."
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He runs fingers through her hair. He takes a moment to breathe her in.
"You know I do not put anyone above you."
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He sighs.
"But Sweeney took offense to me being with Dorian still, even after he told me what I did."
Which Godric - hates. Not because Godric is afraid to drop someone for Annie, but because he spent the better part of a year in prison, relying solely on him.
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"I'll talk to him."
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But he is worried. "You said he's been having good and bad days?"
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"He is having a difficult time here. Not adjusting well."
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"If we were still on the Barge," she can tell him this because it's Godric. "I would've wanted you to do that. Make me forget."
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