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[darkart]

Nathan?

[pushfall]

I'm adopted.

[ That's not what he asked, Claire. ]

[darkart]

That would explain 'Bennet'.

[pushfall]

Don't be a dick.

[darkart]

I thought it was very kind of me not to inquire about your potential divorce.

[pushfall]

[ Maybe he can hear her laughing all the way down the hall. ]

I hate you so much.

[darkart]

It's not often someone tells me that and I don't believe them. Merlin only knows why, in your case.

1/2

[pushfall]

[ Lol Merlin. ]

Maybe because I've been nothing but stubbornly persistent since that first batch of brownies.

[ And yet she doesn't know WHY. ]

[pushfall]

I like you. You aren't nearly as terrible as you like to think that you are.

[darkart]

[ Fuck. What does he even say to this. It's not offensive enough for his self-sabotage instinct to kick in properly, so he has no idea how to proceed. So: a bit of a lag on this reply. ]

I haven't got anything else to think.

[pushfall]

[ She'd been expecting a disconnect, so Claire is a little surprised to get anything back in any time at all. ]

Yeah, well, I've got enough for the both of us, so just go with it.

[ It's not true, of course, not entirely, but Claire thinks that having anything that isn't brimming with vitriol and thrown elbows is an improvement. The reality of it is that she knows very little about him, but what she does has laid framework for wanting to know more. In her long and colorful history of bad ideas, this one might only make the footnotes. ]

[darkart]

[ There's an awful lot he has to say about this, but he thinks of typing it and feels even more bloody exhausted at the very idea.

Soon, though. There are things he needs to explain-- things like If you're open about this to people from my home, they'll think you're a terrorist. ]

I'll make an effort.

[pushfall]

[ He isn't alone on that end. Declarations aside, there's no room in a text message to explain to someone the extent of what she is, or that she's started to learn to stop caring about what other people think of her. Another time with less of a hangover, maybe. ]

Okay. Good.