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Elliot Craig

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[fiddlestick]

It's not your fault.

[usurpers]

you okay?

[fiddlestick]

[There's a pause, and the "Elliot is typing" notice is up for awhile]

I'm sorry she said those things about your family
I knew she didn't get along with Clover, but I didn't think she'd take it that far.

[usurpers]

you don’t have to apologize for her, but it’s alright.
i protected clover faster than i realized who i was talking to.

[ which, in the end, is still family. and eren knows he was rather crude. ]

elliot?

[ YOU DIDNT ANSWER HIM . . . ]

[fiddlestick]

Sorry. I just
I didn't expect to hear those kinds of words from a Fairweather.
They've always been so warming and accepting.
I mean, Olivia and her sisters aren't related to us by blood but the Fairweathers treated them like family without a second thought.
So to hear Natalia talk about how someone isn't family felt like...being slapped. Or doused with cold water.
I keep thinking "what if I do enough things to make them mad"? Would they say that about me?
I know it's irrational, but...

[It's hard not to think about it when it's happened before, especially so recently]

I had hoped she'd apologized after I said my feelings, but...
I guess I was stupid to think that.

[usurpers]

[ oh elliot :( now it’s eren’s turn to play hot towel. ]

give her a minute. she’s probably pissed enough she can’t think straight. we don’t know what happened between them either. the same time it can be petty, it can be serious. for her.

[ he’s attempting to see both sides rather than go straight for the neck— above all, she was family, too. putting elliot against her was insufferable and no better than what natalia was doing to clover. ]

she’ll come through. she’s a fairweather.

[fiddlestick]

[...]

I know...
It's not like I expect her to get along with Clover.
And I'm just being irrational myself...

I'm sorry.
I just made everything worse.

[usurpers]

Elliot . . . You didn’t.
You cared, you cared for me. You took a stand for something you didn’t agree with.
If anything, you made sure it wouldn’t happen again. Don’t regret that.

[fiddlestick]

[there's a pause, he takes some deep breathes to try to calm himself]

Okay. I'll try not to.
But I still feel pretty nerve-wracked.
Taking a stand is really tough.

[usurpers]

It is. Not that many people are strong enough to keep it up.
But it’s the best result most times.

[fiddlestick]

You always do a good job of keeping it up though.
I've always admired you for that.

[usurpers]

[ THIS IS A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD AND EREN IS SLIGHTLY WORRIED BUT ]

You’d knock some sense into me if I was doing the wrong kind, right?

[fiddlestick]

Haha, of course I would.

[usurpers]

I trust you with my life.

She’s been wanting to meet you for a while, you know. Clover.

[fiddlestick]

And I trust you with mine.

She has? I'd like to meet her.

[usurpers]

you don’t know how glad i am to read that
you can make your own opinion of her

[fiddlestick]

I plan to, don't worry.
I'm not going to let Natalia's opinions sway me easily.

[usurpers]

I know you won’t. You’re sturdier than you let on.
Maybe I can set up a casual meeting or something.

[fiddlestick]

It's thanks to you I'm as sturdy as I am.

But okay!
I'm up for whatever.