#daniel juniper 1.

Juniper does not resent or regret frequently — but she is furious with Spirit for giving her phone number to Daniel Romano. 

There is an awkward text message exchange — tense and formal. Juniper plays nice with the man who shook Harris to the core, the man who Spirit wants to spend the rest of her life with. But she does not like the way he talks to her, talks down to her. She’s sensitive to such things, and she notices them immediately in Daniel’s communication style. 

He wants to meet, and he wants to meet at the Harris household. He sent you to the hospital once, and I don’t want to watch him do it again she almost tells him, but she doesn't want to seem casually cruel or like she holds this over his head. Juniper is nice. She is gentle. She will let Daniel come over on this weekend, when Harris spends most of his time in the city, when she doesn't work until later in the day.

So she's anticipating his knock on the door — but it still makes her flinch, makes her want to crawl out of her skin.

She opens the door slow enough for it to creak and sees Daniel. Then — she sees the boy. Eyebrows furrow, mouth parts slightly — her confusion is impossible to hide.