[ emma leans her hip against the table, crossing her arms over her chest with a slightly exasperated scoff. ]
Suits you? Rather it hides that self-satisfied look you wear so well.
[ things have changed with faraday — but so steadily that emma hardly pays it any mind to how effortlessly she stands near him now, how unbothered she tends to be by the moments of contact, how half-hearted even her annoyance with the man comes out. certainly, that irksome behavior hasn't vanished, and faraday is just as capable of the obnoxious antics that before would've inspired icy disdain from emma, but...
it's different now.
she's not sure when or how she'd become fond of the gambler, but the months and months that he'd spent in her home, by her side, had softened her to him — had made him important.
probably why the idea of him up and disappearing bothers her so terribly now. ]
And I think I could do with a touch less of that.
[ teasing. always teasing.
but she reaches to take a card from the deck, intends to just flick it right back at faraday — because she can. ]
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Suits you? Rather it hides that self-satisfied look you wear so well.
[ things have changed with faraday — but so steadily that emma hardly pays it any mind to how effortlessly she stands near him now, how unbothered she tends to be by the moments of contact, how half-hearted even her annoyance with the man comes out. certainly, that irksome behavior hasn't vanished, and faraday is just as capable of the obnoxious antics that before would've inspired icy disdain from emma, but...
it's different now.
she's not sure when or how she'd become fond of the gambler, but the months and months that he'd spent in her home, by her side, had softened her to him — had made him important.
probably why the idea of him up and disappearing bothers her so terribly now. ]
And I think I could do with a touch less of that.
[ teasing. always teasing.
but she reaches to take a card from the deck, intends to just flick it right back at faraday — because she can. ]