Re: TWD: graham + clem
Clem did angry real well, though, and Jake had made her mad as hell. No point denying it. She still loved the boy like breathing, but she was spiky as could be when it came to being done wrong. No other way to look at it; Jake had done her real wrong, never even asking her say in a thing. It was slut shaming some, and it made her mad as brambles. But she still loved the boy with every bit of her that had loved on Lore, and so she'd give him the house and see him safe if he'd take it. Money didn't matter a lick to her; she had more of it than she'd ever know what to do with over in Gotham.
She smiled some when he replied dry about it being a real miracle they had women any, him and Shane, and her chuckle was a low thing, quiet, under breathing. Man always had that dry sense of humor, and it was good to see it back, instead of whatever had taken its place since Fall. "Hush about imposing," she said, an exasperated look paired with the words. "You know I don't offer a thing 'less I mean it. I'd just get real aggravated and toss you out on your ear anyway. Any of Shane's women still staying? I never did ask, seeing as we were busying dying some."
She could just brush off all that talk of loving, like she did with Carson, but seemed wrong to do that with him, seeing as she'd seen how that felt, straight from a bottle. "Think it's balance, honey. Love more, and it hurts more when it's gone. Don't love a whole lot, and you don't get any hurting." She gave him a real clear look, like she knew the answer to what she was asking without ever asking, so much so that she didn't even need to phrase it as asking, not any. "You had a choice, falling hard or not, you'd do the same damn thing all over, Graham."