bad odds (Riley)

[Arden Patricks]

((Lol... I think I've had Melody ten months for pretty much the whole time we've been on this site. ))

"Wow...." I raise my eyebrows briefly. "He can't be already, can he?"

[Riley Pearson]

[[ lol, yay for 10 months then!! that works well ]]

"Nope.. definitely is." I said with a faint smile over to her. It was hard not to talk about my kids and not smile, so maybe this was a good topic for a short moment.

[Arden Patricks]

I shake my head a bit, then smile faintly back at him, partly because it's good to see him smiling and partly because I've just remembered something that I really should not have forgotten.
"Fitzy found Mell, did I tell you?"

[Riley Pearson]

I looked over to her again with another small smile. "That's great!" I said, smiling a bit more as the time passed. "When? Where'd he find her?"

[Arden Patricks]

"I... I don't know, not exactly. I think Lilith found her... at Mungo's or something. But I never thought I'd see him so... paternal. It's weird. I think you'd literally have to kill him if you wanted to take her away from him now." I shake my head a bit, frowning slightly, but then smile again.

[Riley Pearson]

"That must've been weird..." I said looking up to her with a faint smile. "Wow.. that's good then, I guess... Maybe he'll watch her more carefully now and not hand her off to people.."

[Arden Patricks]

"I don't think he'd do that anymore anyway because now he knows he'll get murdered if he tries it," I mutter, then shake my head. "But no... he's different. I think he's finally accepted that she's his daughter and not just... some stray puppy or something."

[Riley Pearson]

"He will.. if not by someone else by me." I said looking over to her. "That's good.. I'm glad he finally can see that.. I'm really not sure how he didn't notice it before." I added, shaking my head faintly.

[Arden Patricks]

"Because that's just how he is, I suppose." I shrug slightly. "We kind of grew up differently than you did, you know? Fitzy in particular. He doesn't really... know how to be human all the time."
I'm not sure what, if anything, to say about the idea that Riley would murder him.

[Riley Pearson]

Of course I wouldn't literally murder him.. but I figured that Arden just understood what I meant.
I nodded slightly at what she said. "That makes sense I guess.. I just.. don't really understand how he thinks." I shrugged faintly.

[Arden Patricks]

"So is it bad that I think that I do?" I ask, laughing very faintly. "Honestly... when I think about how he was treated... not just at home, but later, by me and whoever else... it's no wonder he seems heartless half the time."

[Riley Pearson]

I smiled faintly and shook my head. "No.. I mean, like you just said.. you've lived with him.. you know what he went through.." I paused for a moment and shrugged. "I really have no idea."

[Fitzy Patricks]

"... Probably a good thing," I mutter, looking at the bench.
I wonder if that was a factor, subconscious or not, in my decision of Logan over Riley - the fact that, really, Riley is just from a different world than I am, one I don't quite get sometimes. It's the psychos and the heartless I understand better.

[Riley Pearson]

"Actually, I wouldn't mind being able to understand him.. and you." I said quietly with a faint shrug, looking over to her. ".. a bit better.." I didn't always understand how they thought.. and I probably never would, which was something that sort of bothered me.

[Arden Patricks]

"But I'm not really sure if you can, unless you're fucked up." I shrug slightly. "I don't know. There are some things you just can't explain. Beliefs, love, faith...."

[Riley Pearson]

"Then maybe I'm getting there." I said with a faint chuckle, even though that wasn't even really close to funny. "But yeah... I guess you can't really explain any of those things..."

[Arden Patricks]

I grimace again slightly, because I don't think that's funny.
"Well, there you go then." I shrug.

[Riley Pearson]

"Yeah.. sorry.. not so funny." I said when I saw her grimace next to me. I nodded slightly at what she said, "Yeah.. Just like you probably don't understand half of how I think sometimes.."

[Arden Patricks]

"Mm... maybe not half," I shrug. "But sometimes. And no, it really wasn't."

[Riley Pearson]

I nodded slightly, "If you're ever wondering, I can attempt to explain it.. but I've never been the best at that.."

[Arden Patricks]

"Mm... I doubt that I am either." I shrug yet again. "And I can't even think of anything right this minute where we differ all that much."

[Riley Pearson]

I shrugged faintly, looking over to her. "Yeah.. maybe we don't right now then?"

[Arden Patricks]

"Maybe," I shrug. "I don't know. I still know we do though."

[Riley Pearson]

I nodded a bit, "Too bad we can't think of any of them..." I said with a faint shrug over to her.

[Arden Patricks]

"Or not." I shrug slightly. "I mean, I guess it doesn't really matter all that much."

[Riley Pearson]

I shrugged again, unsure of really what to say about this anymore. "Yeah.. that's true too.."

[Arden Patricks]

"Hm...." I nod slowly, then fall silent and look down at my hands. I really don't know what else there is to say.

[Riley Pearson]

I nodded faintly back, frowning slightly before looking away too with a small sigh.