Perhaps you and Athena should both consider the idea.
I know you said you get to work together in at least one of your jobs, but...if all you're doing is work, then I can imagine how difficult it must be to be able to really spend time together.
Well I kind of... work a normal amount of hours but it isn't for the money. For me, I mean. When you work with people you get to learn about them. Everyone here has so many different experiences, it's kind of... nice?
But we find time. [ Now he just looks sheepish. ] Though she did fall asleep while we were together once.
[Now, some people might interpret while we were together as something...different. Unless they were actually correct in their assumption. Iris, on the other hand...]
What were you two doing that made her fall asleep like that?
[Iris, of course, then assumed he was just teasing her for the nickname.]
That doesn't mean you have to. Everyone else I talk to either calls him Phoenix or Mr. Wright. Oh, except for Mystic Maya--she calls him "Nick" for some reason.
[And as for his question:]
He's more than taken care of me. In a way, I owe him my life.
[What happened, indeed. Where does she even begin?]
There was...somebody was killed at the Temple where I live. Somebody very close to a lot of the people involved. I was blamed for it--[a story in and of itself]--and taken away.
Feenie...at one point, I was sure I would be found guilty, but because of him and his friends, the...truth came out. [A painful truth, yes, but one which shed light on so much of their respective and shared pasts.] He believed in me, when he had...every reason not to. [Yet another story] For that, I owe him my life.
Sorry-- [ He maybe thought she was talking about something... not as catastrophic as that but... ]
Then I'm glad he was there for you. It can't have been busy, if you were blamed for it. You didn't have to say anything either so-- [ He presses his lips together, kind of awkward, then says: ] Thanks.
[...well, technically she would have been hung, but semantics.]
I know.
But...it's alright, Merlin. I've spent so much of my life having to hold things inside and keep secrets from people...it's almost a relief to have someone to talk to about everything.
[Even if he never did share his own thoughts. Long as it had taken her to reach a point of openness, she would hardly expect the same from him if he wasn't ready.]
Goodness, though. There's...just so much. I know you already know some of it--[Thanks to a few momentary outbursts in the past.]--but...well, I suppose you can say my life has been full of extreme ups and downs.
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Within the last five years, I'd both found a love I'd never though I'd have the chance to feel...and been betrayed by the people who should have been closest to me.
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I know you said you get to work together in at least one of your jobs, but...if all you're doing is work, then I can imagine how difficult it must be to be able to really spend time together.
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But we find time. [ Now he just looks sheepish. ] Though she did fall asleep while we were together once.
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Unless they were actually correct in their assumption.Iris, on the other hand...]What were you two doing that made her fall asleep like that?
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We went to the cinema. ...We probably should have just stayed in though.
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Was she able to at least make it home alright?
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Of course I made sure she got home safely.
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She's very lucky to have someone like you looking out for her.
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That wasn't the point I was trying to make though.
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[Accept the compliment, Merlin.]
There are some who can go an entire lifetime without finding someone like that.
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[ Eyebrows raise... he better, or he's going to find himself tripping over odd vines that weren't there minutes before!!! ]
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I didn't know anyone besides me called him that.
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...And you aren't answering the question.
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That doesn't mean you have to. Everyone else I talk to either calls him Phoenix or Mr. Wright. Oh, except for Mystic Maya--she calls him "Nick" for some reason.
[And as for his question:]
He's more than taken care of me. In a way, I owe him my life.
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Well I call him Mr. Wright to his face. [ Though ... he isn't sure he wants to go with this topic when she says she potentially owes him her life. ]
...What happened?
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There was...somebody was killed at the Temple where I live. Somebody very close to a lot of the people involved. I was blamed for it--[a story in and of itself]--and taken away.
Feenie...at one point, I was sure I would be found guilty, but because of him and his friends, the...truth came out. [A painful truth, yes, but one which shed light on so much of their respective and shared pasts.] He believed in me, when he had...every reason not to. [Yet another story] For that, I owe him my life.
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Then I'm glad he was there for you. It can't have been busy, if you were blamed for it. You didn't have to say anything either so-- [ He presses his lips together, kind of awkward, then says: ] Thanks.
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...for what?
[She had been ready to tell him he hadn't needed to apologize, but then the expression of gratitude caught her of-guard.]
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For saying? I mean... you didn't have to.
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I know.
But...it's alright, Merlin. I've spent so much of my life having to hold things inside and keep secrets from people...it's almost a relief to have someone to talk to about everything.
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Well you can. Whenever you want, I mean. I don't mind listening. [ Even if he isn't sharing his own thoughts... ] With anything, really.
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[Even if he never did share his own thoughts. Long as it had taken her to reach a point of openness, she would hardly expect the same from him if he wasn't ready.]
Goodness, though. There's...just so much. I know you already know some of it--[Thanks to a few momentary outbursts in the past.]--but...well, I suppose you can say my life has been full of extreme ups and downs.
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They definitely seem like extremes, anyway.
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[She also did not mind admitting that much.]
Within the last five years, I'd both found a love I'd never though I'd have the chance to feel...and been betrayed by the people who should have been closest to me.
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No one deserves to be betrayed. Though the love is definitely an upside to things, right?
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I only wish...it hadn't taken us so long.
But then, that was my fault as well.
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