Time is Relative[Jason]

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Nothing. Yeah, sure it was nothing. Just like the sky isn't blue, and Saturn isn't a big clot pole. If you couldn't tell that was hard core sarcasm. But fine, Jason could take a hint. Rhia was up for story time and probably wasn't up for his company. She wanted alone time, which made no sense to him. Sure, her boyfriend was on the quest, but did that really mean she had to shut everyone out like they had all acquired the beubonic plaque? It wasn't exactly fair in Jasons mind, after all, he considered Rhia a good friend of his. In the past he might have considered something more there but it was only fleeting, his feelings for Clare were too strong, too obvious to him. He couldn't switch paths just because he found a girl attractive, he wouldn't do that to Rhia, besides, he like that he helped set Rhia up with Josh. He was proud of him playing cupid in that instance. Those two made a cute couple. So, even with Josh gallivanting around Europe with the other quest members he had hoped that Rhia might seek him out more as a friend. Obviously that didn't happen. It was partially his fault, he had pretty much locked himself away in the principia upon his job promotion, he suppose he could also be blamed for shutting people out.

He sighed at her idea. Be with a friend, well he was trying. As for a drink, well, it was illegal and he wasn't a son of Mercury who found joy in breaking the rules. Also, Jason wasn't a big fan of the stuff. Sure, it was fun every now and then, but he had matured a lot within the past year and was being good for his position and his Clare Bear. As for the last question, no, not even Jason could get by with breaking the rules. "No, to that question. I don't get away with breaking rules, if anything I have to follow them more strictly now." He studied her face as it looked at him. The distraught look seemed to have melted away but there was still one obvious sign about her. Her eyes were red where they should have been white. Jason frowned. "I am spending time with a friend, someone I like Rhia. Don't you get that? If I didn't want to be with you I could have left. You are my friend, ever since day one. Why else do you think I annoy you Princess?" Jason said with a hint of a mischievous smirk, hoping to lighten up the depressing cloud hanging above them.

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Don't Look at Me

"I know Praetors go by rules more, that's why I said 'even a praetor' not that 'as a praetor'." she gave a soft unpleasant sigh and pushed her hair back. It was more frazzled and filled with numerous tangles that shouldn't be there. That weren't normally there. For the most part she'd fallen into disrepair. Josh was gone, no more reminders of eating when she got into her books, into her magic, into her training. If not for waking up with everyone else, and having some semblance of a normal schedule as compared to everyone else, she'd not eat the two meals people ate. Or was three normal? She ate like eight times a day with Josh around, so normal wasn't really her thing. That didn't even include the snacking. Gods she missed that boy. Eight years of being together, and suddenly poof, gone. Not a word from him. She tried to not care, failed miserably, but tried. "I didn't recommend getting drunk, just a drink. Maybe the horrible taste would get things off your mind?" she gave a small half smile. Trying to get some of that sarcasm, those jokes she was certain she used to make. At one point, before Josh left. Before Saturn showed up in her dreams. Before.

Tilting her head back, and turning it around she gave it a few good cracks before she stopped. Looking away. Away from Jason as she licked her overly dry lips, and bit down on them just a little. Sucking a bit of air though those same lips she made a bit of sound, a tsk, and licked her teeth. Just random movements of the mouth as she tried to figure out what he said, what to say back. There was no way he'd like her. No way he'd think of her as a friend. "No." she said softly not looking at him. She turned looking him directly in the face, her lips drawn into her mouth as she bit down on them and shook her head. "No." she said a bit more finally, shaking her head. "You don't, you can't. No one....okay Josh, but his heads broken. No one else. Can, will like me." she said emphasizing her words with hand gesture. She'd always been more for hand gestures, but it always became worse when she was emotional. Other wise she could cross her arms and not move her fingers around like an idiot. Pinching her middle finger and thumb together tightly and drawing a horizontal line on words she wanted Jason to memorize. To hear. To know. To know she knew, he didn't care. To let him know she knew. No one cared. That Josh would have been better off not caring. "And nothing. Nothing you do, will make me fall for that."