Emily Ann 101

I honestly can’t tell you why, but my brain has made up a whole dumb story about how since TGG is set 2 years after TBH there’s time for an established relationship between Gigi and Slate.

Not a romantic relationship mind you, yet. I want to see the friends to lovers take place in the grandest game. I think they became friends, and secret friends, because Eve sent him to spy on but not interfere with both sisters. Mind you, she specifically said “do not make your presence known even if one of them is being murdered. We can use the information on the murderer as a bribe for Grayson, he’ll want vengeance”. While she was probably being hyperbolic, he is still obliged to follow instructions. Until Gigi, who he has grown rather fond of in having watched her for months, is in danger. Then he cannot simply watch, he saves her, and they bond. Furthermore since she knows he’d get in trouble for interfering, she doesn’t tell anyone, but her being her, she suggests keeping in touch with super secret code names and whatnot. Charmed as he is, they do.

No one knows until the grandest game when Eve gets involved, however that happens and Slate is around and there are a couple things off about their interactions, but people mostly let it slide.

Until either Gigi gets rip roaring drunk and Slate takes her home and when Grayson hears about it he’s absolutely livid thinking he’s taking advantage of her and goes storming into her room with his brothers all “I’m gonna kill him” and then they open the door and she’s sleeping peacefully, fully clothed (more clothed in fact cause she’s in his jacket), and he’s literally asleep on her floor like a Labrador cause he wanted to make sure she was safe.

Or an explosion of some kind where he tackles Gigi and covers her with his body to protect her from the flames even though Eve is not only there but was closer at the time. They all live and she’s like “why do I pay you?!?!”

Anyway, that’s my dumb brain. Enjoy

Do you guys remember in the brothers Hawthorne when Grayson was lamenting that Acacia wasn’t in his life and intuited that if he’d lived with her and his father that she would’ve been the one to bandage his wounds, whereas when he and his brothers lived with Skye they always tended each others wounds?

Since that was his simple way of thinking that Acacia was living and maternal in a way that Skye wasn’t and he grieved the loss of that in his life. I think it would be fitting and lovely if there were a scene where he was injured and insisting he was fine and Lyra wasn’t having any of it and made him let her take care of him and patch him up.