“Good, then it’s settled. We’re not going to be stupid about this anymore. It’s all in the past, if you need me, you call and I’ll come. Alright?” Eden didn’t want to mess around anymore, didn’t want the distance between them. Both of their lives were such a mess, they needed each other now more than other. “I just…I don’t understand why he did it, why he felt like it was the best way to go about things. Why didn’t he just come to me, why couldn’t we just talk about it before it came to this?” Eden’s mind just didn’t work that way, she didn’t have that same vindictive streak that Shannon clearly did. Hurting the people she cared about had been the last thing she’d wanted and yet it had been his gut instinct. It was sad, really – it made her a bit sad for him.
“You should have told me, Shannon, you should have said something. I deserved to know why you were suddenly just…gone. All you had to do was talk to me, trust me and all of this rubbish could have been avoided.” If she’d known what he was going through, even if she couldn’t help, at least Eden could have waited for him, could have been some sort of silent support system. At least she would have had some kind of answers and not thought he was just being an ass, that he was through with her and that that had been his way of tossing her aside. “What did you think would happen, that I would just sit around and wait for you to decide it was time for us to work through this? I didn’t even know what the bloody hell was going on with you.” There had been no communication – the only news she’d gotten about him had been from the weres at the mansion or people she knew from clubbing and none of it had been easy to hear. She’d even tried to get in touch with Shannon at first, in the days following that night he’d reappeared and then run off again, but he’d never taken a single call of hers. As far as Eden was concerned, she’d picked up the hints he was dropping, she’d heard him loud and clear. “What did you think would happen when you set this whole thing into motion, Shannon?” She was genuinely curious – had he even thought it out or had it just been an instinct he ran with? It didn’t make it better either way, but she couldn’t help but want to know. “This didn’t blow up in your face, you pushed the bloody detonator this time. You shoved Cal and I out of your life, Shannon, and all either of us wanted to do was to be there for you. I just….I don’t understand.” Maybe it was good that she didn’t, it meant she wasn’t wired similarly to him at all. “I loved you. I would have down anything for you, if you would have just talked to me. I wish you would have just talked to me.” It was sad to think it was too late now, that the damage had been done and there was no going back. Eden didn’t even know where all of this left them or what he wanted from her. It was all such a bloody mess.
“It is, I just….I need a minute or two to myself.” She just needed to compose herself away from Shannon, a little bit of time to breathe. “He does, yeah. It’s a bit of a long story, but he saved my arse awhile back, brought me in here for treatment.” There was so much to fill Juniper in on, especially everything that had happened with Ian. “Just…stay calm. I’ll be back soon, yeah? And I’ll bring something to eat.” Eden left the two then, vanishing out the doors.