Bea got being a skeptic, she did. But hadn’t it counted that Ty had been looking for Vienna for Bea? Not a hell of a lot of people these days went out of their way to look for someone else’s loved ones. Most people were looking out for their own asses first and foremost. But that wasn’t Ty, had never been Ty. He carried more weight on his shoulders than anyone else Bea had met. She really wanted to thank him for not giving up.
Even if the reunion was kind of tense so far, Vienna was here and she was alive. That counted for a lot.
But Ty wasn’t here, instead Bea was faced a little boy, and god, he was cute. It almost made her forget how out of her depth she felt with kids. Being around the ones in Sing Sing hadn’t done much to change that. “I am,” she answered Ledger, not expounding on it because she was guessing that kids didn’t want long explanations.
She could be wrong.
Before she could stop it she puffed out a sigh. “Why the hell would I?” It wasn’t like a zombie apocalypse would make her happier. “No, I think that was Joyce.” Because neither their mother or father had spent enough time to do something as simple as have a fucking sex talk with the girls. “Maybe?” God, she couldn’t place a face, but she wasn’t going to lie and tell Vienna she remembered someone she didn’t.
It would probably make this conversation go better, but honesty just wasn’t something she was willing to sacrifice. Not even for Vienna and this awkward as hell conversation. She wished it was going better. Wished she could make it go better. But she couldn’t. She was too thrown by the whole thing to put on a bright face and act like it wasn’t the fucking weirdest thing in her day to have living, breathing family standing two feet in front of her.
“I never said I wouldn’t,” she snapped back somewhat sourly. “Just, your hands are all full and I don’t want to squish anything.” And a hug right now would be strange. Maybe it would cement the fact that Vienna was alive, that she wasn’t in some fucked up nightmare of a day that felt real.
Taking a minute to scan the yard for Ada, she whistled softly, relieved when the Husky came to heel at her feet. Turned out the tips and tricks she’d been getting from David were working better than she’d expected.
“Have you,” she began but stopped almost immediately, gathering her words before she started again. “Have you found your way around yet?” She wanted to offer her place to Vienna and Ledger, but she wasn’t sure if she was completely comfortable with that. Even for one of the better rooms in the place, it was still kind of tight. If she could get over the weirdness she’d offer; maybe if Vienna said she hadn’t found anywhere else.