InsaneJournal

Who: Emma and Mark
What: The time has come to stop avoiding the men in her life.
Where: Her room, the Institute
When: Yesterday, right after this
Rating: Low, most likely

Emma had been having trouble since she returned. The problem started at home, then followed her here. Literally, Mark and Julian both arrived here within days of her return. She'd taken to avoiding both of them, but of course that meant spending most of her time in her room and going to the training room at odd hours--often waking Cristina to train with her because with Julian, her parabatai, it would be too awkward. Her best friend, her literal other half and it was too hard to see him.

Now Mark was asking to see her. She didn't know if he had decided to corner he about what had happened at home. Yes, it had been her idea, but her idea had been to pretend to date, just to make it convincing enough to make Julian stop loving her. Her idea hadn't been to actually date Mark. Yeah, it had occurred to her that if he hadn't been kidnapped and spent the last five years away, it was a possibility. But now, her feelings for Julian were too strong. She knew she'd never get over him, but unrequited love was apparently okay.

She shook that thought, Mark would be there any moment. She closed the Codex she had been reading--really, she had it memorized by now--and got out of bed, making it.