"I'm glad to hear it, truly. I do my best not to bother you when I approach." Hector knew that he'd leave the moment she seemed even slightly uncomfortable with him, but that moment just didn't seem to happen. Lifting her basket, Hector was distracted by looking at what she was showing him when she stumbled, the former prince reacting instantly, a hand moving to her side to steady her while his other hand lifted to the basket's bottom. "Are you alright?" He was looking at her with concern, not having processed just how close they were until he met her eyes and found himself nearly nose to nose with her, blushing softly. "Apologies, I just..didn't want you to fall..."

"Oh, you could never bother me, Hector, I know I may be busy at times, but I will always find time to speak with you." She honestly admits, a warm blush heating up her cheeks once she recovers from the stumble with his help, nodding in response. "Yes, and you have no need to apologize, I wanted to give my apologies for having fallen for you-i-into you, I mean." Briseis quickly clarifies with another soft smile, her lips slightly parting as she notices how close they are. "Thank you, for helping me."

"Hello Briseis. I can't say I'm surprised to find you here anymore. Seems you like spending time at this market as much as I do. Find anything good today?"

"Hector, it's wonderful to see you again, and I'd really only be lying to the both of us if I denied it." She admits with a warm laugh. "This place has such delicious fruits and vegetables, it'd be far more difficult to get me away from here." Briseis muses, lifting up her basket and tilting it a bit to show him, but her fingers slip and she nearly drops it, stumbling forward. "Oh!"

Taking a breath, he spoke sincerely. "Hope, I've been falling in love with you since the moment we met. Every day I think about you. What you're doing, if you're having a good day, smiling to myself when I think about your cute furrowed brows and the scowl you give me when I'm being annoying. It makes my day every single time I'm able to get you to smile, or laugh. I love your laugh so damn much, I dream about it at night. I don't know the moment I fell for you, but...I looked at you one of those nights where you were growling at me and knew I'd fallen in love with you. I know I'm annoying, and snarky, and not that great at sharing too much about myself, but to say I deserve someone good and amazing when I'm already looking at you sounds like I've already found who I supposedly deserve. I just hope that someday, one day....you let me try to be even a little deserving of you."

Shaking her head, she sniffles, unaware until this very second, that she had begun to cry, happy tears of course, as she steps closer to him and places gentle hands on his cheeks. "Chase, never think that your beautiful words and feelings are not mutual, because I swear to you with everything that I am, that they are. You frustrate me to end but that's what I love about you most, and I don't growl." Hope muses with a laugh as she wraps her arms around his neck and presses her lips against his.

"I know I'm allowed to feel those things, and I do. In a tight little ball that I shove deep down inside of myself." Randall smirked a little before sighing as she moved closer, getting the idea she wasn't going to let this drop. He also expected she likely wouldn't accept the reasoning that he wasn't gonna live long anyways so why bother dealing with stuff like that, or take that well for that matter. So, he just poked her shoulder. "I know I'm not a robot. I definitely make way too many mistakes to be a robot. But there's no benefit, for anyone around me, to deal with every angle of my negative or unnecessary feelings. I've always been like this Melinda, no reason to get upset over lil' ole me now."

Melinda makes a face at that response, sighing softly. "Randall.." She starts, moving her shoulder away slightly when he pokes her, before reaching over to poke him back. "Are you sure you're not a robot? Beep borp.." She weakly muses with a small smile and shake of her head. "You'd feel better not having to keep it all in and you have people who care about you so deeply, here, I can't be the only one who wants to be there for you with whatever is going on. I'm not going to apologize for caring about one of my closest friends." Melinda replies as she turns towards him. "Take me for example, I've always been open about my feelings, and let me tell you, a while ago, I met the most frustrating man ever, mind you, this all stems from the fact that he saw that I'm a witch and immediately started judging me and practically wished he still had his werewolf form just so he could kill me!" Her tone gets louder as she speaks and huffs after her rant. "There, I'm still a little annoyed, but I feel better. Now, you go."

                    leia  couldnt  let  the  laugh  that  slipped  past  her  lips  ,  since  it  wasnt  something  she  had  thought  about  before.  but  now  that  it  was  brought  up  leia  did  think  it  was  pretty  funny  ,  she  also  didnt  have  halloween  back  home  so  it  was  a  bit  of  a  culture  shock.  ‘  that  actually  is  the  worst  once  you  think  about  it.  im  gonna  have  to  tell  my  husband  that  one  ,  he  would  get  a  good  laugh  out  of  it. ‘

Luc shifted uncomfortably, used to talking with her bluntly but unused to trying to verbalize his existence. "I am changed because I remember mortal memories. A life, with family and loves that this place has given me, and what those relationships looked like. I am different because I understand how those relationships should be, and have mortal feelings and responses to those relationships. I'll never be fully human Adeline, but my thoughts aren't as...unexplainable, as they were when I was just the dark god you despise, I'm more now."

As she listens to him, she takes in a deep breath and almost hesitates in her movement, but moves forward towards him and looks up. "If you are more now, then I want to try something." She muses, stepping up and pressing her lips against his softly, wrapping her arms around his neck and letting herself enjoy this moment.

He let himself hug her for just a moment longer before he leaned back, taking her in and making sure she was alright a moment before he spoke again. "I'm so sorry Briseis, I tried to survive and make it back, I never...I didn't expect it, I'm sorry I left you." Patroclus knew he was being slightly ridiculous, apologizing for dying, but things had gone so badly after, he couldn't help but feel responsible for the pain that had followed after.

Sniffling, she uses her sleeve to wipe her face a bit before leaning back just enough to really look at him, a couple of hiccups escaping. "I never thought I'd see you again." She admits, trying hard not to burst into tears again. "What? Patroclus no, I do not want you blaming yourself for any of this, I do not blame you in any way." She quickly shakes her head and frowns. "I know how much you love Achilles so I will apologize only to you for this, but he is the only one I blame for your death."