[OTA] You So Fine You Blow My Mind

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There's a yoga studio in Diamond Castle, of course. Silas is a devotee, and that means that yoga has a higher profile than it did before he became King and she became Ace (and Jack, before that). She's not using it today, though. It's become the kind of place where people look for her.

So instead she's in one of the few remaining empty rooms in Diamond Castle, in Pincha Mayurasana. She's simultaneously singing, though, which is probably not the most zen-like thing to do. Especially when it's Mickey.

She probably doesn't care, though.

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"I was worried about that," Avery says. "There's been so many of them, that the potential to get hurt..." Is major, for everyone in the Deck. And more so for someone already hurt.

"And Mr. Caustello's not come by again? Minnie said he did a few weeks ago." And Avery had been surprised, because for a long time Rachel had had more of a relationship with Avery's father than her own. Of course, Matthew Hamilton made it hard not to have a relationship with him.

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"Was quite high, as I realized," and as had others, really, "I believe most everyone was as careful as they could be." Although she'd needed a bit of prodding from Leigh before she actually decided to stop trying to risk as much walking about.

A slight shake of her head, "Not here to the Castle, no, but we spoke briefly last I visited Eileen at the Clubs'." Which was far more than she used to be able to say, little though it may be in the grand scheme of things.

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You could count on Leigh for that kind of thing. She was young enough to be bossy about things without seeming bossy; Avery sort of missed those days. "I...hope they'll stop soon, or that we'll figure out how to stop them."

She wasn't so sure, though. There best minds hadn't come up with anything yet.

"That's good," she says, though, with a soft smile. "Especially now, estrangement is...foolish, I think."

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"I hope so, as well." It was-- difficult, being cooped up as she was, even if it was for her own good.

And a small smile of her own, "That was how I felt, after-- everything. I thought that with so much else in my life changing... why not one more?"

And why not have it be something that had needed mending for some time, now?

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"Exactly. I think it'll make him happier, too. Eventually." Though Caleb Caustello had never really struck Avery as a particularly happy man. Maybe this was part of it; maybe reconnecting with Rachel would make it better.

She could still be an optimist about some things.

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And she is learning, slowly, to have a little bit of that optimism.

"I like to think so."

It would be good, to see him even just a little bit happier again. Better, to know that for once she was the cause for that happiness.

"I've-- missed him."

Still hard to admit, even though it's likely been clear.

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"He's your father."

Which, really, is what it boils down to. She could have tried to be Rachel's family, and she had. She could have even succeeded in a way, but she couldn't replace the one she'd grown up with.

"You're supposed to miss him. I miss mine, sometimes, and I go home once a week for dinner."

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It's a tired sort of smile, now-- interacting with or even thinking about Caleb has largely been exhausting for all these years-- but she still smiles.

"Let's just hope he feels the same."

Sometimes she thinks he's just humouring an injured woman.

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Maybe he thinks she's humoring an old man. It's possible.

Avery just smiles, though, and shrugs. "Hope is about all we can do."

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"At least it's something."

It's the something that's always left when there's nothing else-- it's about the only thing she (barely) had left after the incident with the Magician.

It's enough to get them through.