MCA #1- Tuesday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

While Rey was definitely not new here, this was the first year she'd really experienced the last week or so this way. Pollen had always been a frustration before, and the kids she'd had had been impossible in ways that meant it was harder to get too attached. It was a little different when there was a possibility, even if Cerra probably wasn't ever happening either, and it was making for a weird Tuesday.

Rey had taken these thoughts, bottled them up, spent twice as long training in a futile effort to make up for last week, and then felt like she got back to her apartment too early. Well, she could always put away the things they'd "cleaned up" by shoving them out of sight when the girls showed up...


[For the boy!]

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[long_memory]

"It was a surprise and not a surprise all at once?" he tried. "I mean, her showing up at all was surprising, but it wasn't surprise that she was a possibility."

[thatwaslucky]

"Were you and Madi that serious?" Rey wondered.

[long_memory]

"Things worked a little differently back then. And even then, it worked differently than the rest of the world." It's not like pirates abided by normal courting rituals.

He thought about it for a long moment before responding, "But, yes, I suppose we were that serious. I loved her, and I believe she loved me."

[thatwaslucky]

Was that a little weird to hear? Yes and no. It wasn't like she didn't know he had a life before her. "Can I ask why you broke up?"

[long_memory]

There was another pause as he thought about how to answer that. "We didn't, really. I ended up here, 300 years into the future."

[thatwaslucky]

"Oh." She really hadn't expected that one. "Wow."

[long_memory]

Yeah, probably something he should have brought up before, huh?

"It's not great, I know," he said. "But as time went on, it became increasingly obvious to me that I was not going back there. She most definitely thinks I'm dead by now."

[thatwaslucky]

"That had to be terrible for both of you," she said, frowning. "Why do you say it's not great?"

[long_memory]

"It doesn't bother you?" he asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't know that that's the right word. I'm a little surprised you didn't say anything." But also not, because he didn't really share when things bothered him. "Did I move too fast with you?"

[long_memory]

"No, of course not," Silver said. "If anything we moved too slow."

[thatwaslucky]

"You're sure?"

She didn't know why, but that was what she got stuck on.

[long_memory]

"Of course I'm sure," he said, leaning in to give her a quick kiss. "You don't need to doubt that."

[thatwaslucky]

"Good," she said, smiling a little. "I just... I don't know. I don't want to have started something while you were still getting over her."

Which really had more to do with making sure he got that time to do that than anything else.

[long_memory]

"No, there wasn't much to get over. I don't mean that in an uncaring way," he added quickly. "It's just Madi was very self-sufficient. It would have been harder to let her go if I were worried about her wellbeing, but she's someone who doesn't need anybody else's help."

Honestly, she might have been better off without Silver there.

[thatwaslucky]

"I think I can see that." She wasn't going to think that he'd probably be able to get over her the same way. "I can definitely see that in Jamie."

[long_memory]

At least the excuse sounded complimentary rather than the more truthful 'I bury things quickly and never acknowledge them again'. Even he wasn't truthful to himself about that.

"She handled things rather well, didn't she?" Silver said with a slight smile. "The both of them did."

[thatwaslucky]

"You sound proud," she said, a little teasingly.

[long_memory]

"Aren't you?" he asked with a smile.

[thatwaslucky]

"I am. I just like this look on you," Rey said.

[long_memory]

"I don't know how long it'll last," he joked. "I might forget what they were like in a few weeks."

[thatwaslucky]

"No, because that's when we'll find the rest of the things we hid and the whole weekend will come back," Rey laughed.

[long_memory]

"Fair point," he said, laughing. "We didn't really do a great job cleaning."

[thatwaslucky]

"We did not. At least we know next time to make sure we've cleaned up before anyone can get here."

Notice how her solution wasn't 'don't wreck the apartment.'

[long_memory]

Well not wrecking the apartment was not an option.

"That is a lesson learned," he said with a laugh.