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“I suppose but I hope there is less fighting and just more… cuddling?” Well she was going to say something else but she was pretty certain they already did plenty of that. “How about you come to mine tonight and we watch something and order food again? I know it’s pretty plain but I like nights in when its with you.”

“Aiden, you don’t have to parent me,” she commented, but took a seat anyway. “I can take care of myself. Well, sort of.”

“I don’t suppose you have any food on you that isn’t chocolate?” Hugo asked the person who he sensed passing by as he lay on the ground on his stomach trying to coerce the puppy out from the spot where it seemed to be stuck. “Apparently my abilities and baby talk aren’t doing the trick and I might have to resort to food tactics.”

“We’ll both work on this a little bit more. I suppose this is both of our fault after all.” It took two people to have an argument so she could at least own up to the part she played in it. “Mhm… I’ve never been to a vets before so I hope it’s a good one.”

The guilt that had been gnawing at her was all but climbing up her throat now, she felt bad for her siblings, how come she got the perfect life and they ended up on the streets, it wasn’t fair and yet there was nothing she could do to change what happened to them. “But that still shouldn’t factor in her anger towards you, it’s not your fault, Aiden. You had no say to which family you two were sent too-..” She sighed, “Why didn’t you say anything to her when you knew who she was?” She couldn’t help but ask, knowing if the roles had been reversed she would have been wanting to reunite with her siblings as soon as she found them. “It’s not fine, Aiden. We should be celebrating the fact that we’re all here together now, that we’re all safe and relatively happy. That we found one another. Do you want me to talk to her?”

“I’m fine,” Sloane insisted. “Some girl was being a bitch about your cooking and then was talking shit about Darcy, so I took a punch, and well she didn’t have a bad right hook.”

“It’s nothing,” Sloane said to the other, hiding her black eye beneath her hair a little more. “It doesn’t even hurt that much.”

“If you could? It’s not confidential, even if it was, we’d be screwed anyway.”

“I don’t want to though Aiden. It doesn’t make me feel better to put you down. I hate shouting at you.” She stated softly, feeling her anger and frustration slowly ebbing away. “But yeah… enough of this. It’s not fair on the dog to be stuck out her. Clearly they need to be checked out and made sure they are well. We can wait until after that.”

“It’s not your fault we got split up, Aiden. It was the system.” Darcy commented, guilt gnawing at her stomach after having the information on both her siblings and yet doing nothing about it because she was happy, she had a family and they treated her with nothing but kindness. “But why be mad at you and not me? Why isn’t that anger directed towards me either, I don’t want your relationship to be strained and ours to be fine. It’s not fair.”

“Maybe it’s somewhere in HQ. Hopefully.”

Juliet seemed to exhale a hell of a lot of air as she held the dog, turning on the spot. She hated getting annoyed because she’d never been all that good at controlling her anger but more than that, she hated who it was currently aimed at. Aiden was the one person she could always rely on which was perhaps why she’d been so touchy with the subject matter. “I know you are normally. You don’t always agree with me.” And that was fine, he didn’t have to given they were their own people at the end of the day. “I’m sorry I yelled at you, I just hate people thinking I can’t take care of myself. I’ve done it for long enough even if you have been there to help.” Her fingers squeezed his hand. 

“You can totally cheat at arcade games, if you know the right way to beat the system. Or you have some sort of ability that cheats the system for you.” 

“Should it be suspicious that I’m missing a page in this file that I got?”

“Fair, fair. It’s tough sometimes, ain’t it?”

“I’m a combat trainer for HQ, just got hired.”

“To you it was a joke. I don’t know how many times I had to repeat myself and you still didn’t seem to grasp that I didn’t find it funny. If both people aren’t laughing that just makes you the asshole.” Juliet spoke as abruptly as ever, not even holding back for the sake of her boyfriend but he knew what he was getting into when he decided to date her. Juliet had never censored herself for anyone but she also knew she had a hot anger that was liable to burn anyone when she got annoyed. While she didn’t want to push him away, Juliet also knew she wasn’t in the right frame of mind to really have him around right now. “Look, I am not going to force you to leave Aiden but if you are here at least be supportive. You should be the person to build me up not bring me down.”