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[a_shadow]

"I don't know. Maybe it's because..."

She frowns.

"Church said it to me. Before he disappeared that first time."

She looks down, looking at her hand as she drags her finger along the seat cushion, making swirls in the upholstery.

"I don't mean to, but I compare them a lot, in my head."

[infailtration]

York nods, thinking he understands a bit more now. He hasn't exactly had many relationships, but with important ones like this... he can imagine that you would compare the important things. The big things.

"What was he like? Church?"

[a_shadow]

Her expression doesn't change, and she continues to mess with the fabric of the couch as she speaks.

"Outwardly? He's such an asshole. His memories are messed up, you know, from the torture, so he thinks we're exes. Instead of remembering what really happened, he remembers me leaving him to enlist."

A pause.

"I've never told him any different. And I don't think he forgives me for that. Leaving him to fight the war, I mean. He's always sniping at me. Calling me a bitch. Pointing out my flaws."

She blows out a harsh sigh.

"It's all a cover-up though, you know. So he doesn't hurt like he would over it. I don't really blame him for that. We all have our ways of coping, right?"

She stops swirling the fabric of the couch and crosses her arms across her lap, looking out over the top of the TAB.

"I've never explained to him what really happened, but before the EMP, he learned more details from Washington. And he asked me questions, but...it was still kind of always there, this history between us that his false memories have conjured up."

Her lip curls wryly.

"Anyway. When he's here, all we do is fight. It's like he always knows exactly the worst thing to say that'll piss me off. And then I expect Ryuuzaki to act like that, and he always chooses the perfect thing to say to cool me off, instead. I'll be gearing up to fight and he just...defuses the whole thing with one sentence."

She glances back at the TAB's camera.

"Last night was our first fight, really, because of that. After months of being together, that was the first one."

[infailtration]

York listens carefully, filing all the information away -- he sounds different from Carolina's version of Church, at least a bit. But not like a bad person, for being an asshole. And he's Tex's asshole. You can put up with a lot when you love someone.

But then they're talking about Ryuuzaki again, someone who's actually here that York still needs to get to know, and his expression gets a little sharper. Their first fight. York's mouth curves into a gentle smile.

"And you made it through. Good for you guys."

[a_shadow]

"Yeah. I kind of worry a little bit that he takes fighting too seriously, actually. Too..." She fumbles for words for a moment. "...personally."

She shrugs.

"I just told him fighting's not the end of the world."

[infailtration]

"Well... it isn't. As long it isn't a constant thing and as you make up after." He grins a little. "Sometimes that's the fun part. Was it the fun part?"

[a_shadow]

She snickers. "Well, I'd been fighting shadows all day that day, so we just got in bed and I conked out. I presented that to him though, as a reason fighting isn't so bad."