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Deputy US Marshal Givens ([personal profile] tinstar) wrote2020-10-28 08:36 pm

Slingin' from the hip, never the heart. | Open Post



Raylan's job took him everywhere, from Harlan to Los Angeles to Paris. The Marshals service was demanding but Raylan leaned into the work, traveling as needed to get to get his man.

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[personal profile] citharede 2022-02-26 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That does relax her a little bit, the fact that people won't mob up with Boyd and storm Raylan's house.

She chews her lip for a second, catching a bit of loose skin in her teeth and wincing. "Do you think he'll want to kill me or catch me more?"
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-02-26 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
She scowls. "If he thinks he can control me for shit he has another thing coming."

The scowl fades a little as Raylan talks. She looks up at him sidelong, something really starting to register for the first time.

"I'm the only one with the Gift here," Athena says quietly. There's shock in her tone. A fresh new wave for a fresh new reason. "I'm literally the only person in the world with the Gift. Fuck."
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-02-27 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
She presses her face against him, the way she would have in Mathias. The was she would if he were Jeff. Except he's not, he's Raylan, and she loves him, but a horrible, selfish part of her wishes that it was Jeff sitting with her right now instead.

"I'd rather be with you than someone else, if I have to be somewhere where no one knows about the Gift," she mumbles.
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-09 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
“I’ll be okay,” she says softly. She drags in a deep breath and straightens up. He’s right, about the dangers of staying still too long when there’s so much emotion hanging in the air. It’s a panicked smothering waiting to happen.

Athena helps him bring in the groceries, puts things away, showers and changes into properly clean new-old pajamas before returning to the kitchen. “How do you brine chicken anyway? I want to learn so I can impress and confuse Aunt Nory with my culinary acumen.”
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-10 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Athena snorts. “God no, Nory can’t cook for shit. Except for spaghetti. She does make killer spaghetti.”

She peers into the bowl. “What kind of spices do you use?”
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-18 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
“Hell yeah, bring on the teenage recklessness and boiling oil.”

She ticks herself up under his arm as soon as he’s not using both hands, studying the amounts of spices like that will help her remember what to use next time. “And hey easy isn’t easy when it comes to stuff like this, you know? Have to get the timing right and all that.”
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-18 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Athena keeps up a commentary on what they watch practically until she falls asleep sitting on the couch, snuggling in against Raylan and pretending to be unconscious. She lets him move her to the mattress like she's a ten year old who's properly asleep instead of a nearly-eighteen-year-old who's faking it.

It doesn't take long for her to actually fall asleep after that, though.

She wakes up earlier than she wants to at the sound of the front door opening. Athena scrambles to her feet, not sure what she's on the alert for but knowing there's something.

...It's Raylan. Raylan, going somewhere, with car keys in his hand.

She stares for a second, then gives an affronted, "What the fuck?"
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-24 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
She scowls. “Fuck that. I’ll nap later. Where are we going?”

She casts around for her tennis shoes, pulling them on unevenly as she seesaws over to him.
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-24 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
“That’s exactly why I should go with you!” She glares up at him. “What if he gets ideas or something and… I don’t know, sends people here while you’re gone?”
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-24 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
She doesn’t really have a counter argument for that. Athena bites her lip, feeling her throat tightening up, her eyes starting to burn, and she tries to swallow it down.

“…I don’t want to be by myself,” she finally whispers.
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-28 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
She doesn’t want to. She wants to stay with Raylan, she wants to stay with someone familiar, but she makes herself nod. Athena looks down so he won’t see her face. “Yeah, I’m. I’m okay with that.”
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-28 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Athena looks up abruptly. “Option two. Door number two. Whatever the game show reference is, that’s the one I want.”
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[personal profile] citharede 2022-03-28 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
That takes the wind out of her sails, even though it’s also weirdly comforting to know that he cares enough for it to be a risk. Of course he does, she scolds herself, but it’s one thing to know and another to know.

Still: he’s planted the seed.

Which means as soon as she has a moment at Ava’s, she’s sneaking into Raylan’s trunk.

So, to buy the time she’ll need there: Athena glares at the ground, not feeling a quarter of the anger or resentment she’s pretending at. “Fine. You can take me to Ava’s place.”

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