Giovanna M. Bennet (burnwithlight) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-01-04 17:26:00

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Reasonable People Can Always Disagree
The holidays had been beautiful. Now it was time to get back to business.
The file she'd gotten from Gabriella Santiago sat between them on the table. They hadn't gotten around, before, to more than the most cursory discussion of it. Or her.

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assaultnbattery
2010-01-05 05:01 pm UTC (link)

This time he's more certain and conscious of what he's saying when he says it. "I love you, Giovanna. I have for some time. I just wasn't very good at saying it when I should have."

That said, he looks back to the documents on the table. "Politics often isn't practical. The biggest problem we're dealing with is fear itself. People are afraid, and that's a hard thing to get around. Magneto casually destroyed some of the best defenses they could build with a wave of his hand at times. The Marauders killed... who knows how many people? That guy at the supermarket might not even need a gun or bomb to destroy the place. Same way we don't know who might be some fanatic out to kill everyone in our gene pool, who might back the sentinel program. Practical has nothing to do with anything - we need to be able to hand the nations some kind of reassurance. Something to convince them we're not always on different sides, and that sometimes the notion of a human side and a mutant side handicaps all of us. Intelligence on genuine threats is one of those things. If they can put names on the 'bad mutants', it makes it easier for us to wear the white hats."

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	burnwithlight 2010-01-05 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	She listens intently, then nods. "I'm convinced." She kisses his cheek. The odd factor of combining a major relationship point with a Work discussion is not lost on her. But with something this important going on, it was to be expected. "I'm not exactly the best at this, either." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	assaultnbattery 2010-01-05 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, maybe both of us work too hard sometimes. Thank you, I really do appreciate your feedback. You're the only voice I can trust in all of this, so when you disagree with me, politically or otherwise, or think I need to reconsider things, I need you to say so. The last thing I am is infallible, and you're a lot more than my bodyguard." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2010-01-05 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	"I will. And of course you're not infallible. Father never has to tell your Grandfather to go to bed." She smiles slightly. "Kiss me?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	assaultnbattery 2010-01-05 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	He gets up from the files, pointedly closing them for now. They can talk more later. "Any time." He kisses her, hard and passionately. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2010-01-05 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	And she'll reciprocate very much in kind. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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