Falls of the Hinterlands and if you don't love me now, you will never love me again

She didn't hear Tegan approach. After the way she'd behaved herself on his family's borders, she didn't expect him to come after her. She would have been mortified if she'd stuck up for him only to have him act that way in front of her family - whatever was left of it, at least. It was only when he said her name that she looked up, startled both by his presence and by his use of her new name, rather than her childhood name.

"I'm so sorry," was the first thing out of her mouth. She turned her face away and dunked it under the water, hoping to erase the evidence of her tears. Obviously, he would know that she'd been crying, but at least she could maybe not throw it in his face. "I just didn't know what to say and I panicked, and I thought... she was already angry..."

Blackbear sniffled, mortified as she felt the waterworks coming on again.