[ silence. not a long one, really, but certainly long enough. it pulls through the handful of seconds after kurt's emphatic words. and, when it's done, she nods. ]
I sincerely hope so.
[ maybe circumstances have made it so that she starts out disliking the man now sitting on her sofa, but disliking him doesn't mean she's at all eager to see him fail. if anything, she's motivated to see him do very opposite: his success cements jane's happiness, and recently she's realized that's one thing among many that she very much wants.
peggy's never had many friends. fewer, still, with whom she can trust the more confidential aspects of her life. in that respect, jane has rapidly become precious to her. ]
For what it's worth, [ and she doubts it's worth much -- indeed she suspects it'll only hurt more to hear it, ] I doubt Jane would have felt half as devastated by it all if you hadn't already proved yourself stalwart and steady. I'm hardly your biggest fan but you hardly need me to tell you that. Point is, I'm not so hard-headed as to assume you're some through-and-through villain.
Still. [ her cheeks puff. ] At the risk of sounding all the more cliché, I've broken noses over less. Let's see to it that I don't come looking to take a swipe at yours.
[ a little bit of posturing. surely, she can be allowed that much -- if only because she's lived a life where it became a necessary mechanism against the doubter and underminers of the world. ]
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I sincerely hope so.
[ maybe circumstances have made it so that she starts out disliking the man now sitting on her sofa, but disliking him doesn't mean she's at all eager to see him fail. if anything, she's motivated to see him do very opposite: his success cements jane's happiness, and recently she's realized that's one thing among many that she very much wants.
peggy's never had many friends. fewer, still, with whom she can trust the more confidential aspects of her life. in that respect, jane has rapidly become precious to her. ]
For what it's worth, [ and she doubts it's worth much -- indeed she suspects it'll only hurt more to hear it, ] I doubt Jane would have felt half as devastated by it all if you hadn't already proved yourself stalwart and steady. I'm hardly your biggest fan but you hardly need me to tell you that. Point is, I'm not so hard-headed as to assume you're some through-and-through villain.
Still. [ her cheeks puff. ] At the risk of sounding all the more cliché, I've broken noses over less. Let's see to it that I don't come looking to take a swipe at yours.
[ a little bit of posturing. surely, she can be allowed that much -- if only because she's lived a life where it became a necessary mechanism against the doubter and underminers of the world. ]