[for rian]

[fairywren]

Wren is kind of a teenager when it comes to processing emotions sometimes, complete with flopping on the couch. Where it comes to exes (The Ex, there's only really the one and he's an ex-everything, as Wren tried to explain in spelled out sign language once to Hana), there's no exception there, just more dancing around the subject. He fights it, hides himself in music, makes faces at Hana who gives him a look like he's being a little stupid that doesn't make him feel like it. (Apologizes to Hana for talking about his ex. Gets looked at like he's being a little stupid.)

But after the - whole mummy thing - the gut reaction to Rian in danger, in maybe danger, it's running in his veins. They've got to talk. There's got to be some middle ground. They're not the naive children they were once upon a time, they know better than to expect fantasies about each other, and that means acting like it.

So he leaves a terse message on Rian's machine, and a weird text conversation later he's sitting at Quill watching the colors of coffee and milk swirl into each other and waiting, and thinking.

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[wastelandflower]

It takes Rian a little longer to get there, a consequence of having to arrange a baby-sitter. He's not entirely sure that that Audrey girl is exactly fond of kids, but he'd promised her new guitar strings and a repaired case and she'd taken Sophie on with the dubious look of someone handling a bomb.

They'd be fine.

He makes eye contact with Wren but goes to the counter first. Whatever the conversation they're about to have, Rian already knows he needs coffee.

A quadruple espresso over ice with milk later, he sits down across from Wren. "So..."