[OPEN] is there anything that's worth more?

[slapfight]

Who: Peridot AND YOU!!
Where: Around the mansion
When: During the event
Rating: PG
Summary: Peridot's got some issues. Cue the singing, crying, and whining about singing and crying
The Story:


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Um... [She ticks off on her fingers.] Be sincere, let her know how I feel, give her things she likes, give her things I like... [She lowers her hand.] Are there more things?

[jivitadana]

[Minato didn't think there were. That seemed to cover it all, even some of the things he told her too.]

I don't know if she's pushing you away too because she doesn't want to feel vulnerable or if she doesn't want you to hurt either.

[It really was complicated. But being vulnerable around friends was okay. He learned that before too, even if it had been hard to try and change. He still wasn't as good at it as he should be.]

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But if she pushes me away, that makes me hurt anyway. Hnngh.

[She drags her hands down her face.] I'll give Earth and Earthling-dominated places a lot of credit, but all of these feelings could drive an average gem crazy.

[jivitadana]

They drive humans crazy too.

[Feelings were... yeah, as he said, complicated. Really complicated. And pretty fickle too sometimes, changing up and down and left and right all the time ever. And he never said it was rational either. If they were all rational, then they might not be having this conversation at all.]

If talking doesn't help, then doing something for her might. Just sitting with her and being quiet together? Or just listening when she's ready.

[Just being around her might help, even if Peridot didn't have anything to say.
Maybe she didn't need to say anything at all.]

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[She takes a deep breath, steadying herself, trying to listen, rather than just give in to her panic.]

Right. She does like that. And-and there are always practical solutions to problems, even emotional ones. I just have to think about this objectively.

[Some of the tension lets up.] Wow thanks...

[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded a little, though he wasn't sure he should really be thanked. He hadn't thought that he helped out as much as he should, but he did hope that it helped in some way.]

I guess sometimes not doing anything is like doing something.

[He meant like just sitting and being together, knowing that they had each other even if they didn't say anything, knowing that there was that unspoken and unending support.]

If you need help though for you, then I'd want to be there if you need it.