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[bravebartender]

	✔ Cʀᴏssᴏᴠᴇʀs/AU ✔ Aᴄᴛɪᴏɴsᴘᴀᴍ ✔ Pʀᴏsᴇ	✔ Pɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴘʀᴏᴍᴘᴛs ✔ Oᴛʜᴇʀᴡᴏʀᴅʟʏ ✔ Sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇʀs	♥ F/M, F/F ⏰ Uᴘ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴀᴛᴇ

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[bravebartender]

[The problem is, she doesn't see it as protecting her. Messing with her mind, as far as she is concerned, isn't protecting her. It made her feel like she was a losing her mind.

Her sanity is so important to her, especially after what happened to her brother. Couldn't he see that?

She looks up at the sound of her name, her spine stiffening at the sight of him, but she keeps herself calm, focusing on the matter hand hand.]

Klaus.

[lovewhentheyrun]

[There's a part of him that gets that; another part of him that was trying to keep his word to her uncle; another part that simply...is used to having things his way and gets cranky when people don't appreciate that.

He occasionally works on that, when he remembers to.

Today seems to be one of those days--or this is one of those hours.

He's unsure, and it shows, which bothers him, but then it also bothers him how much he's shared with her that she remembers now.]

Are you all right? [Stupid question, perhaps, but it's what comes out.]

[bravebartender]

[It is a stupid question. But she just exhales slowly and nods. She can keep her game face on.]

Never better.

[lovewhentheyrun]

[His jaw firms a bit, a flicker of temper showing, before he pushes it back.]

You should have left. It's not going to be safe here.

[bravebartender]

I'm a big girl. I can take care of myself, and I don't need you mind controlling me into making my choices for me.

[lovewhentheyrun]

Apparently I've got some bad habits I'm still working on. [He tries a wry smile, because, well, that has to be the understatement of the year.]

[bravebartender]

[You think?!]

Well, considering you've had a thousand years to build them, I'm not counting on that changing anytime soon.

[lovewhentheyrun]

Probably not. But my brother seems convinced I can make progress, grow as a person.

[bravebartender]

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Some things are just lost causes.

[Funny, how she had just been saying otherwise not that long ago.]

[lovewhentheyrun]

[It's a hit, and there's a flicker, a moment where it shows, before he tosses it away with a careless smirk.]

I try to tell him that, but he's overly sentimental sometimes.

[bravebartender]

Maybe one day he'll learn.

[Or maybe one day she will. She'll learn how to better protect herself, quell her mind and try to keep herself from overanalyzing the things that will hurt the most. She needs to learn to recognize the lost causes before it's too late.]

[lovewhentheyrun]

I thought that the first five centuries. Began to doubt it over the next four. Thought he had the last couple of decades. Apparently not. I've quite given up hope of curing him of it.

[He sounds like it doesn't matter. It does. It bemuses him, and makes him...feel, and he hates that part of it.]

[bravebartender]

[Cami is still unimpressed. She watches him carefully with a critical eye before stepping away, reaching for a glass behind the bar.]

Can I get you something?

[Or are you just there to bother her.]

[lovewhentheyrun]

[He is...mostly there to bother her, but.]

Whatever your best whiskey is.,,

[bravebartender]

[Yeah, that's what she figured. But she has a job to do so she's just going to keep on doing it. She grabs the bottle to pour him a glass, before placing it down in font of him.]

Anything else?

[lovewhentheyrun]

[He gives her a sad sort of look, then shakes his head.]

I don't suppose forgiveness is on the menu?

[Too soon, Klaus, too soon.]

[bravebartender]

[She considers facetiously for a moment, before shaking her head.]

Sorry. We're fresh out.