Send my love to your new lover
06-02-2016, 12:04 AM
Athena listened as Vereux spoke much the same way he had for her. Married with a litter of pups. Her brows raised at that fact that he seemed to brush past. He was going to be a father again. She pushed any other feelings other than excitement out of the way. She wanted to be excited for him and Avalon. He deserved that much from her. He hadn't shown any kind of upset at the mention of her daughters so she had no right to be that way over his new children. The only thing she couldn't fight off was the smallest twinge of jealousy. She couldn't even pinpoint what her jealousy was about. It felt like it was caused by a lot of things. The fact that these pups would grow up really knowing Vereux where her boys hadn't, the fact that he and Avalon could have children whenever they wished while she and Amalia couldn't, the fact that they had that excitement of meeting their new children to look forward to and they may never have that again... She shoved it away. She couldn't think about all of that right now. He listed off names that she had been positive that she would never hear again, surprise coloring her face. She hadn't seen any of their family in so long... Then he mentioned that he would be taking Avalon's last name. She wasn't expecting that to bother her, but it did. Neither of them had a reason to have pride in the Armada name, she knew that. She quite often tried to ignore her heritage and hadn't spoken of her side of her and Amalia's family much, if at all, to Diana and Jayne. Despite all that, she had kept her name. Kept her bracelets and the dyed marking on her hip. They were her last connections to her siblings and her family that she loved so dearly even though she hadn't seen them in years. She closed her eyes for a moment as he offered that sibling relationship they had been lacking to her, swallowing hard around the lump in her throat. She was so overwhelmed by everything. The memories that being here brought back, everything she had found out in such a short time frame, reconnecting with her brother. All of it. She kept getting flashes of memories from when she had been a queen or a sovereign. Back when she had been confident in herself and what she and Vereux wanted to create. She didn't miss those days, but she did miss the confidence she used to have. She blinked open her ruby and emerald gaze, her eyes settling on his face again. She got up then, moving toward him so she could curve her neck around his in an embrace if he'd let her. She squeezed her eyes shut again once her face was out of his sight, leaning into him and swallowing hard again. "You've always been my brother," she told him quietly, her voice thick with emotions. "I've missed you so much." That was more true than she wanted to let herself believe. "And I'm happy for you. I really am." |
