Move On {Terrance}

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Felicity stared into the dark colored liquid. The steam gently rising towards her face with the aroma of whatever coffee bean was in season. To her they all seemed to smell the same unless they were flavored, like cinnamon of vanilla. But her coffee had the distinct scent of peppermint. While it was true most people generally drank such a drink during winter with the holiday season it was something that brought the brunette comfort year round. And boy, did she need some comfort, no matter in what form it came in.

She hadn't been sleeping well. Too afraid to. Not after what happened the last time, and of course Remus had been there to be a witness to it. Gods, she felt stupid now. But it just... she just didn't want to think on it. It had been months already, yes, but she had been so god at hiding it within the back of her mind behind so many walls she didn't dare to scratch at. Though it seemed that the moment she did scratch at it a flicker of her powers appeared again. She didn't want to thin she needed to come have her memories make her relive that moment again when she was kidnapped. She never wanted to open up that drawer of memories. She wanted to keep it locked up tight. It terrified her and would cause her head so much grief.

It sucked! Her brain was already enough of a mess right now. Having your own memories and someone elses made for a crazy time, especially when feelings were involved, romantic feelings. She just wanted things to be simple again. Before she had ever gotten involved with Saturn or anything else. When the worst thing she had to worry about was making sure her powers stayed under control and that she wouldn't end up like an idiot in front of Remus. The latter she still worried about at times but now her list of concerns could probably write an entire book due to how long it had grown. The only comforting remedy she had was the cup in front of her and being in the relaxing atmosphere of her favorite coffee house. She had pretty much become a regular here with how often she entered through the doors and ordered her usual peppermint mocha with a red velvet cupcake. The small things in life, that was what made her feel better.

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Notes: It was perfect! sorry the delay!!

Many people walkedinto the coffee shop, many people went in there and ordered their beverages, all of them seemed to enjoy their moments in the coffee shop. Some others went in and ordered their beverages, but seemed to have a nuclear bomb atached to their chests waiting to explode at any second. They drank their drinks trying to figure out what to do in their lives with their problems. And the perfect beverage made them worry only by the escential not about the many other problems that weren't that important by the moment. And that was the reason why Terry had opened his coffee shop in the first place.

Soldiers had a very difficult life, and people should think that the most difficult part was to train and go and do what they were told to do. But that wasn't the worst part, because they were trained for that and they were given areason for it, they were protecting those they cared. No... the worst part was to come back to a normal life, try to fit with others that weren't fighting that wanted a normal common life. there was the problem, because all what the soldier had suffered in action, was too much for a normal life.

At least in his shop, all of the legionaries, or even the gods that occasionally went there in desguise, could relax, could take a moment to think and check what was wrong and try to find a solution without the pressure of finding it. However, there were some special cases that their soul was in such burden that not even the perfect place and the perfect drink made the magic. Then Terry tried to help. His father was Bacchus, mental problems were also part of his... knowledge and Terry used to be very good at dealing with them.

That day, he was serving the table as always, Sam was helping him but that day she had to go and check on some kids of the school. It was ok, he could handle his own shop for a while. Suddenly he saw one costumer that went there very often, but she seemed even more worried than usual. So he prepared her order and took it to her. "Bad day?" he asked and smiled at her, sometimes people only needed to be heard.

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Felicity's train of thought, which happened to not be a straight train as her thoughts were juts jumping from one to the next thanks to so much occuring stress wise in her head and the second set of memories living up there, was interrupted at the sound of the familiar voice. She visited his coffee shop almost every day, unless she was seriously running late but those days were few and far between.

She gave him a weak smile. Terrance was dating Sam and the Laverna in her head wanted to start interrogating him, which was really only adding to the headache she was currently finding herself in nowadays. She pushed that to the side. Honestly, she needed things to be okay. She wanted her powers back, but not if it meant reliving those memories of her imprisonment. She couldn't face that. She had spent so much time just forgetting, pushing it as far as possible. And of course when Remus saw how she reacted to the nightmare...she jsut didn't want him to question her progress at coming to terms with it anymore. If only there was a good way for her to fake an improvement but there really wasn't. She knew Remus was only looking out for her, trying to help and wanting the best for her. And it wasn't like she didn't appreciate that. It made her feel more secure in their relationship and that was also something that she seemed to want at the moment because stupid Eve had to go and try to "fix" Felicity's situation because apparently Remus's happiness was her priority. Gods, even just thinking of that made her angry.

"No, just... I got a lot on my mind." Felicity said before giving him a thank you for the order. Even saying she had a lot on her mind was a tad bit of an understatement. But Terrance didn't exactly know everything about her. She was just a regular costumer in his store and she didn't need more people knowing about her troubles, especially when sometimes it made people think less of Remus and seeing him being attacked for something that wasn't even his fault just crushed her inside. He was so much more than people gave him credit for. She saw that, why couldn't others?

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notes: I have no idea where all the Remus thinking came from. I guess she does think about him a lot XD

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Notes: Finally he cooperated! and my stomach XD

Terry looked at Felicity and nodded at her. He didn't want to pry or anything, it was just that his father gave him this power, gift or curse, no matter how people called it. He gave him the gift to know the troubled mind, and he could either make it even worse till the craziness point, or try to help them to calm down their minds and look for another way of action, that's why he got a diploma on psychology in the university not long ago. He wanted to help others, and he didn't want to mess it up, so he wanted to know the right way to help. One of those way was to listen and... well he was going to try that with Felicity that day.

"sometimes when you speak those things outloud, they take other meaning, you are able to see where you can work on them or simply which ones are more important than others." He smiled at her and stood there for a minute or two. "I meant... I can listen and won't be judgy." He said and then waited there another minute. He knew that sometimes it wasn't the best way, but if she didn't want to, she would tell him. He had read some books about people who had amnesia, others about treators, others about soldiers leaving army, so he hoped that would help him help her which in that momet he knew would be the most difficult part, or maybe it would be that she allowed him to help her.

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Speaking what was on her mind? That was a lot easier said than done to be honest. Where would she begin? How was she to even find words to fit all of the thing that sat up there. The anxiety of her upcoming marriage because of the sudden two people in her head, the past traumas that occurred to her. Between the wars, Saturn, memory loss, death, playing with her powers, and ultimately being kidnapped and experimented on, there was a lot there. Plus now she was powerless, quite literally too.

"I don't think there's enough words to actually speak them out loud if I tried." Felicity said rather dryly. She was serious though. She didn't think she could plus she wouldn't want to burden anyone with her dillemas anyway. "Besides, you have this cafe to run. Spend so much time over here and people might think I was your favorite costumer." Felicity said with a slight laugh, trying to add humor to this situation. She was trying to not appear distant, gods she was trying, it was just so hard sometimes. Not that she didn't trust Remus to talk to him. Gods no, she loved that dorky Robocop. She just didn't want to bother him with so much stuff. She was certain that any day he would find his first grey hair and she would know it was from the stress she caused him over the past years that they have been together.

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notes: Ugh, so short, I'm sorry, muse has not been here at all due to school

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Terry looked at her and lifted a brow, he shook his head and smiled it was impossible how much she was keeping inside of her, sometimes people didn't know how much all the things that they kept inside could hurt them. Thoughts were very powerful in the mind and heart of people. Absolut thoughts were the most dangerous ones of all. Those were the ones respoinsible of most of the most dangerous actions of people and people never realized about it and they blamed any other ones instead of realizing about the truth in ther lives. He hated the idea of Felicity being one of those people.

"Sometimes the least important thoughts and ideas are the root of some of the most horrible fears and problems in our lives." He said smiling at Felicity, he knew about it, he could try to help her, he wouldn't be the one to tell her what to do or what to say to solve her problems. On the other hand he could guide her on her ideas so she would decide how to direct her steps and take her own path. So she kne knew how to act in a more safe and secure path. He smiled and chuckled at her other comment.

"I could laugh at that, my costumers know that this place is like the mad hatter's house, and I am the mad hatter, so they don't think that I would act like a normal owner." he winked at her and served some root beer and looked at her her again. "but we can talk about anything else, not really the problems in your mind."