i guess the closest thing i can compare it to is when i found out chris was in love with jon sims back when we were at odds that was more of a personal fight than general racism, and also chris and i definitely weren't as close as you and methos, but
i felt betrayed. we fought about it. i said i wasn't sure that i could trust him and honestly, it did always live at the back of my mind. i tried not to think about it and chris tried not to let our paths cross, but it definitely wasn't ideal it also didn't stop me caring about him or wanting to be close to him. it didn't ruin our relationship. neither of us wanted it to, i guess we made sure it didn't
so i think, if it was you, it would go something like that. i'd feel betrayed but ultimately i wouldn't want to lose you. i'd want to fight for you and i'd like to think you would want to fight for me too. i wouldnt want this other person to ruin that for us. not after everything we've been through together.
[ there isn't a response for a very long time because hope is reading his response and weighing it with what she's been through, what she knows of nate, and what she knows of methos.
there is a difference, at least to hope, between a personal fight and someone despising the core of her being and having methos overlook that says something about the man himself — he's been avoiding fights for a long time and hope knows that. having been hunted since before she was born, hope is tired of having to defend herself or watch her back; methos has been doing the same for five thousand years, at least. that this woman likes him now means nothing to hope. what does mean something to hope is how he says he loves her but won't defend her because he'd rather avoid the fight in favor of finding new love — something she can't fathom.
after all she's experienced in the city alone... ]
[ Nate knows it's far from a perfect comparison. It's just the closest he can get to knowing what he'd do in that situation.
Ultimately he knows himself. There's little he wouldn't do to keep hold of someone he loves. At times he's done it to his own detriment. Hope would know that, too. She'll have to decide for herself what she can live with.
But... ]
look, whatever you decide to do, i'll be here for you. and i won't think you're wrong if you do something different than i just said, you've got to do what's right for you. whatever that means, i'll stand by you.
Ask me in a week what this conversation meant to me.
Gotta go, love you.
[ and when he does, she'll tell him: rather than sneak away and hide in the forest for a day or two, pouting or being angry, she let herself just feel it and share it and get talked to. ]
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okay, well
i guess the closest thing i can compare it to is when i found out chris was in love with jon sims back when we were at odds
that was more of a personal fight than general racism, and also chris and i definitely weren't as close as you and methos, but
i felt betrayed. we fought about it. i said i wasn't sure that i could trust him
and honestly, it did always live at the back of my mind. i tried not to think about it and chris tried not to let our paths cross, but it definitely wasn't ideal
it also didn't stop me caring about him or wanting to be close to him. it didn't ruin our relationship. neither of us wanted it to, i guess we made sure it didn't
so i think, if it was you, it would go something like that. i'd feel betrayed but ultimately i wouldn't want to lose you. i'd want to fight for you and i'd like to think you would want to fight for me too. i wouldnt want this other person to ruin that for us. not after everything we've been through together.
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there is a difference, at least to hope, between a personal fight and someone despising the core of her being and having methos overlook that says something about the man himself — he's been avoiding fights for a long time and hope knows that. having been hunted since before she was born, hope is tired of having to defend herself or watch her back; methos has been doing the same for five thousand years, at least. that this woman likes him now means nothing to hope. what does mean something to hope is how he says he loves her but won't defend her because he'd rather avoid the fight in favor of finding new love — something she can't fathom.
after all she's experienced in the city alone... ]
I knew I could count on you. Thank you 🩷
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Ultimately he knows himself. There's little he wouldn't do to keep hold of someone he loves. At times he's done it to his own detriment. Hope would know that, too. She'll have to decide for herself what she can live with.
But... ]
look, whatever you decide to do, i'll be here for you. and i won't think you're wrong if you do something different than i just said, you've got to do what's right for you. whatever that means, i'll stand by you.
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I know.
He's gonna have to find somewhere else to fuck her, though, because it's not gonna be my other house anymore.
[ you know, priorities. ]
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this was a dick move, to be clear. fucking a girl who hates everything you are in your own house? not okay.
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Gotta go, love you.
[ and when he does, she'll tell him: rather than sneak away and hide in the forest for a day or two, pouting or being angry, she let herself just feel it and share it and get talked to. ]
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[ He suspects she's going to take care of business, and it won't be pleasant. She'll need space, but...just in case. ]