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Tamryn stayed quiet as he drove down the road, it had gotten late in the evening and part of him was still on edge about Vixen's clear display of paranoia.
"Yeah, Artemy got out- I'm not sure how he managed that, but they just left him alone after a while. Or at least that's what I heard. Can't say much about Vixen because I didn't know about her affiliation with them either…" He muttered quietly at the end, his hands gripping the steering wheel a bit firmly now.
"Yeah- I think you might be right, we'll go to his place then…" He said, occasionally glancing at the side mirrors outside of the car, but trying to play it off.
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It wasn't long before they arrived at Andy's uncle's house and Tamryn turned the engine off, sighing deeply and sinking back into the seat. It felt like between all the fear and the need for answers Tamryn didn't have much room for anything else, not even showing Andy the proper affection she deserved from a partner.
"Hey…sorry if I've seemed off these past few days- I know you would understand why, but it still isn't fair to you," He said softly, bordering on a whisper. His eyes looking up at the sky past the car's windshield. It seemed as if Tamryn's mood had come down a lot from the instability he had been feeling previously. Having a goal in mind looked like something that was helping him a lot.
As far as Artemy knew, Mercy was one of the brightest women he had ever gotten to know, there had been a lot of girls whom he had gotten himself involved with as a teenager, mostly just friends, but they never quite had what Mercy did. Maybe it was just Artemy's view on things, but he did seem really taken with Mercy's ability to be open with him and not mind a bit of his roughness now and again.
Artemy narrowed his eyes at her, one of his eyebrows arched when Mercy said he worried too much, though, after a second he gave her a small satisfied smile.
"Well, takes one to know one, right?" He said, even though his smile faltered a little at Mercy denying that there was anything wrong. Artemy also wasn't a hundred percent sure if there was something more on Mercy's mind, so he decided to take her words as truth. Maybe she really was just exhausted and he could understand that.
"If you are pushing yourself too much, do us both a favor and give yourself small breaks now and then. I don't want to see you crying, Mercy. Not because there's anything wrong with it, but it just feels wrong to have you work when you're not okay" He spoke, still holding onto her, albeit not as tightly as before, but enough so that there was comfort there.
Artemy seemed to be really fond of moments like these, so when Mercy quickly pulled away there was a bit of confusion there as to why Mercy would feel the need to do so when someone else saw them. Artemy had no problems with people seeing them like that, after all, it wasn't just couples that did those sorts of things, even good friends who cared about each other did those as well.
But Artemy quickly figured that maybe Mercy didn't see him like that or didn't want others to get the wrong idea, so he thought quickly of something to say.
"Nothing at all, I was just capturing Mercy into a hug so she wouldn't be able to kick my ass, it's kind of difficult to move in that position," He said proudly once more as if that was somehow the truth and he was proud to finally subdue Mercy.
Artemy finally took a step away from Mercy and went to greet Jack, peeking over at the donuts and the missing one he had taken.
"Thank you so much for the donuts, I really appreciate that, especially given that I wasn't able to have breakfast this morning," He said casually, opening the box and wasting no time in picking the chocolate frosted one.
"You know, maybe I should hire you here" Artemy joked, knowing that Jack's job paid way more than this place ever could.