@fluminas : “ how do you figure out you were … um … ” this isn’t the time to be talking about this. there are vastly more important things both of them should be doing — barbara promised trein damage control, piper looks ready to go on a warpath, and she’d be a liar if she said she didn’t want to join them. “ when i was on tour, one of the assistants called me they, because he didn’t want to assume anything, and it felt — “ barbara wrings her hands out behind her back. “ — really good. so i guess i was just wondering how you … knew. ” // a little 🐛 for u
Piper is not doing well — an understatement were there ever one, anxious and pacing, hands carding through her hair. Piper has precious few loved ones — precious few that she loves and even fewer that she is loved in return by, and Leona is one of them. And Leona is in danger, and Piper can’t —— Piper has to ————
And there’s so little Piper can do for him. Almost nothing, in fact, and isn’t that funny / isn’t that miserable / isn’t that the worst kind of repetition, losing the most important person because she’s useless? The song rhymes and Piper would do anything to change that.
Piper has precious few loved ones — precious few that she loves and even fewer that she is loved in return by, and Leona is one of them. And so is Barbara.
It takes the younger’s words a moment too long to parse past the haze of static, panicked white - noise roaring in her ears and skull. How did you know? ( one of the girls her parents are trying to marry her off to says to a sibling, ‘they’re here because mother wants me to meet more friends’ and her heart does a strange little leap. ) The memory clashes hard with her current panic, and she loves Leona, but she loves Barbara too, and this isn’t the time for this conversation but ———
“I — when this is over, I - I’ll give you a better answer.” Because right now, nothing feels right and the panic is thick and she’s so fucking scared to lose Leona that nothing else in the world makes any sense. “But I think if you like when people call you they, then you get to be ‘they’ until you change your mind.”
( she asks pietro how he’d known, and he says he didn’t, really, he just chose to try. )
“You don’t gotta know anything before you start.”
