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I opened my mouth but then closed it. “No, I wish Trisha or someone had actually tried to beat up Darius a bit before our relationship got beyond saving. We are barely surviving the apocalypse some days. I know we’re doing better than most, but we’ve come too close. If things were calm, fine, no one needs to get all involved.
“But if someone as smart as Trisha had kicked Darius’s ass, she would have seen he was underwater with the castle and we could have handled shit better. I’m going to be Trisha, and also I’m the boss, so I have the one unique perspective here that Chris needs to hear. Or fuck, I just need to say it for Tyson because he’s saved me and been on my side always.”
“Okay, I just wish I had popcorn.”
I didn’t understand that, but I was just glad he was going to take me where I wanted to go. I did hear Petre’s concerns as well and promised I was just going to tell Chris he was stupid and he didn’t deserve Ty. It might come out a bit drunk, but I wasn’t one to just blow up.
Except that all went out the window when I saw Chris and thought of Ty crying.
“You’re a stupid fucking asshole and I hate you!” I blurted to Chris like a toddler.
“Shit,” Moon muttered.
Yeah, I sort of felt the same, and I didn’t even probably realize what else was going on or what I should given I was drunk. But I ignored all of that, storming over to Chris and pushing at his chest.
“You don’t deserve Ty. I was all in your corner and rooting for you guys, but you’re stupid. You don’t deserve him at all.”
“Respectfully, you don’t understand—”
“You don’t understand,” I growled. “You don’t get it, idiot!” I shoved at his chest again, too drunk to move the human that I didn’t think I was as strong as. “He’s not human. He can’t get infected. You can!” I gestured all around us. “That’s why all the fences and vampires patrolling all night. Shifters with crazy vision on guard.
“We can’t be infected. You guys can. Ty did what we’re doing here. He put you in a place where you couldn’t get infected. He shielded you from the worst-case scenario and you’re pissed at him? Your fucking pride is more important than your love for him? Then that’s not fucking love.”
Anger filled his eyes. “Don’t lecture me about love. You don’t have that right.”
“No, I don’t, but as someone who’s been on the receiving end of stupid shattering my heart, I get a vote in that,” I shot right back. “You’re not seeing the big picture. You’re not seeing the levels. You’re seeing one tiny part of your fucking pride and feeling inferior. Someone is always superior, okay?
“I put up a magical fucking barrier of energy that basically melted the corrupted that hit it. Can you do that? Can you?” I didn’t wait for him to answer. “No, you can’t. No one else can. So that was the part I handled because I could. We had people who move faster than air displacement killing corrupted. That’s being smart.”
“I can pull a trigger just as well as anyone else who—” Chris defended.
“They couldn’t be infected!” I blasted. “Everyone on guns could not be infected if they broke our line. If they got past my barrier—which they almost did before help arrived—we couldn’t have gotten infected from a scratch or bite. If you want a fucking sniper ledge put on that room or something—that’s a discussion to have.
“Fine, we’ll put something up there to use a rocket launcher from so you can help. That’s smart. I know Ty would listen to that. But any human being in the fight where you can get scratched or bitten and you can be infected is fucking stupid. Unless something changes and we can get infected too, it’s stupid. You’re being stupid.”
“A rocket launcher could hit us on the ground killing corrupted faster than that rocket could and do less damage to the building that will be there,” Petre cut in. “It also wasn’t normal circumstances. We didn’t know what the fuck was happening not being able to sense them. That was new.”
“Right, so he could have been just as vulnerable as I was,” Chris snapped. “If new happens, we stay together and fight. I didn’t want—”
“No, that’s not the way it works. You being vulnerable is a known,” I argued. “You’re right that something could have changed and he could have been vulnerable. I worried about that. Not that night but after. Idiots went and let themselves get scratched and proved that fear wrong.”
“One did on purpose, one was an accident,” Moon corrected.
Right, still, an idiot named Tian used himself as a guinea pig to show the corrupted still weren’t a worry for vampires.
Idiot.
“But you were still a known,” I repeated to Chris. “And you’re being selfish! They came for me, you jerk!” Everyone froze and blinked at me. “They came for me and my tree so other princesses would try and win this battle between the two Gods. The big ones. Yeah, I get it all sounds crazy and you don’t believe, but I didn’t either.
“But I’ve seen proof now and just—it was for me. If you died because they came for me—what does that do to us left? I ordered Ty to take you there. So it wasn’t even his call. Be mad at me. Don’t be stupid and ruin what you have over something so stupid. You had something great, and you ruined it! Over nothing when so much is wrong. Do you know how that destroys him?”
I was fairly sure everyone there knew I wasn’t just talking about Ty and Chris anymore… But I wasn’t wrong saying it about them either.
“Look, I get it’s more complicated than I know or believe,” Chris muttered. “But he’s not allowed to make decisions for the grown man he says he loves, his partner, no matter how much older he is.”
“Agreed. He agrees with that. Knowing Ty, he apologized for that,” I said, calming down as well. “I fully understand getting mad at him for that.” I sighed when Chris frowned. “He made the decision he needed to in that moment knowing more than you did, dude. You get to be mad at him, but once he filled you in, you agree to make that decision going forward.”
“No, that’s—”
