[AoS] Well, Fancy Seeing You Here... (Gina)

When the door flew off its hinges, Gina knew she was in trouble. Suddenly, the gargoyle girl was feeling a whole lot less bold than she had before—but that’s what six-and-a-half feet of super-strength muscle did to a woman, particularly when it was blatantly, blindly furious with them. Gina watched as Saturn stalked closer, wishing that the ground would just open up and swallow her whole. Her wings sagged slightly. Not only had he heard Gina ripping his “wife” a new one, he’d heard what Rebecca said. And now, the five-foot-one gargoyle was taking the heat for it.

The gargoyle bit her lip as Saturn spoke, averting her brown-eyed gaze. A rippling stream of swears ran through her head. She’d certainly done it this time. Somewhere between asking Gina if he wasn’t welcome and the first-half of his tale about how they’d met, Gina lost focus on Saturns’ words. They were both broken, both needed each other, and Gina was wrecking everything they had together. Even if it was nothing. She shook her head, slowly, ashamed of herself—she’d never send Saturn off.

The question was, did she understand him? Rebecca attempted to intervene, but Gina was well aware that she was up **** Creek without a paddle, by this point. Call her stupid, call her bold, call her what you would—she wasn’t taking back a word of what she’d said. Even when the man in front of her could kill her with a single flick of his finger.

“Understood,” Gina mumbled. He was in Gina’s face, inescapable and furious. Gina could feel the tears pricking the corner of her eyes, threatening to overflow. And, when she spoke, her tone-quivered. Her limbs were shaking—not only in residual anger at Rebecca, but in fear of what Saturn would do to her. And yet, Gina spoke, unwilling to step down, “I understand, and I apologize, but I don’t take back what I said. I can’t help how I feel.”

The tough-girl gig was dropping fast, and giving way to all that was left—not the self-righteous, coldhearted deputy, but Gina. Gina, and all the raw pain, sorrow and nostalgia that made her who she was now—fear of what Saturn would do to her, fury at Rebecca for being who she was now, and all these emotions were bringing out the real Gina in full-force, and there was nothing Gina could do to contain it now.

“Your wife and I used to be best friends,” Gina told Saturn. Her voice had lost its tremble, but was quiet and tight with emotion, “Did she ever mention that to you? She was dating a girl that I’d deemed my sister, my roommate, which made the three of us inseparably close, before the apocalypse.”

It was a story that very few knew. Gina had an image to uphold, so she scarcely spoke of Agnes, to anyone. Not even Jorge. She was too busy trying to be tough, trying to be strong. Each time that Agnes came up, Gina grew indignant and angry-- because it made her feel weak. The last thing she wanted was for the townspeople, or for anyone, to see her vulnerability.

“Do you know what it’s like, to watch your sisters turn into total strangers?” Gina demanded, “Agnes helped bring about the end of the world, helped cause all this mess, and now Rebecca’s with you, and you know what--?” Now, she was crying. It would be more merciful of Saturn to just hit her, and stop this all now. More merciful than to let Gina make a fool of herself, and throw all of her vulnerabilities out for the world to see, “It’s killing me to watch my sisters cause so much pain. Killing me to stand by absently, and make no difference—to be powerless to how time’s changed us all. We’re all broken. All of us, devastated husks of who we once were. And there’s nothing that I can do to save anyone. I can't do anything for you, me or anyone else, and it kills me.”

Gina turned her back on Saturn, beginning to stalk away, but there was still more that needed to be said. She wanted to escape so horribly, to run, to raise the walls up once again-- hell, being struck down or being yelled at about how wrong she was would be more merciful than to let Gina continue revealing vulnerabilities. But, there was still more to be said. She couldn't flee yet. Two strides away, Gina turned back, returning to her nose-to-nose status with Saturn, “I understand you, and I apologize. Never again will I get in the way of your own personal happiness, just because of my own personal qualms. So long as it works for you, I will keep my mouth shut. I just... thought this was the one instance where I would't be powerless to watch two friends hurt themselves. I realize, now, that I'm wrong. And so, I apologize to you, Saturn.”

Her piece said, Gina lowered her head and closed her head, awaiting whatever punishment that she'd brought upon herself. She would not apologize to Rebecca, nor did she want the protection of her former friend. She also wouldn't take back a word that she'd said, but she'd apologize to Saturn-- because he was stuck in the middle of this. And it was entirely possible that, having heard all that Gina had said, Saturn had also heard all that Rebecca said. This made Gina truly remorseful. And for this, she would take whatever her big mouth had earned her.



ooc: Sorry for the wall-of-text. I got kind of carried away. I'll tweak it/ shorten it if need be. Sorry guys~