Redhawk Caldera He's just a different kind of kid

Oh, thank fuck, he hadn't taken it badly. In fact, she could hear the smile behind his voice and it made her stomach flutter, just a bit. She'd missed that.

It really was a "when". Talking didn't sound any different from what they normally did, but despite still questioning if it was really going to be that easy, she decided to drop it. It wasn't like she wasn't going to go with, and it wasn't like they weren't going to have to cross that bridge sometime.

Giving up any and all of her expectations for their relationship going forward had sucked, but it meant that now, she was going into this without that fear. She'd already lost him once and survived it, already fucked up more than a few times, and already made her peace with ending things where they were. Thankfully Bronco seemed keen on taking a different route, but the desperation with which she'd asked him to be her mate had been replaced with a much quieter (and slightly guarded) acceptance.

She wanted to trust him, wanted him to trust her. And she wasn't sold that it had been that easy, no matter how good what he was saying sounded.

Yeah. The pack shit sounded fine, and she couldn't see herself ever having too much opinion on things like family counts. Trespassing might be a little more of a discussion, but that wasn't this talk and she wasn't sure she had the energy to get into that tonight. She was a little overwhelmed already, in the traditional Fennec 'fuck that shit' manner. They could talk details later.


And if it isn't working, or one of us has to bail for any reason, we say something. No matter what. She smiled wryly. This wasn't her calling him out and they should both know that. Dipping and being dipped on was a pattern that dotted her history and last time she'd taken a trip like this, it hadn't ended well. Felt like a lifetime ago, though. It can't be that hard. Right? She'd already promised this ages ago to herself but maybe it deserved saying out loud.

It was kind of decided. Fennec fell into silence, mulling over the idea as she listened for his response. The only Redhawk that she wanted to invite along was Killdeer... the rest would only bring the same problems along that prevented them from trying to lead here. They'd have to tell her mom if they were really doing this. Fennec didn't want to lie about it, no matter how tempting it was to just ask forgiveness later.