some kind of resolution (january catch-all for nancy and annie)

[stauncherhearted]

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Catch-All for January for this lovely Midnight witch, and another lovely Irish hunter. Specific starters can be found in the comments! Please feel free to write your own, or PM me if you'd like something specific!

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"do it." Nancy surprises herself with the ferocity of the words. Anything for a little bit of security. she needed it more and more she'd learned. Life was getting dicier and dicier, and she had fresh bruises to show for it. Fagin couldn't protect her anymore and she'd known that for some time. but Eames actually speaking about protecting her made her realize it.

he'd be furious, Fagin. but she could explain to him and he'd listen. he'd listen and that didn't change her relationship with the old one. it just meant Eames was responsible for her well-being. she could keep her allegiance as it was now. She's still give Fagin what he wanted. She could just breath easy knowing she didn't have other fae trying to kill her.

"Name me under your protection- Fagin can't do anything for me and he's made this more complicated for me with his dealings. You've done more for me than he ever has, in all the years I've known him. give me your protection." she was still Fagin's daughter, for all intents and purposes. but this was just another way to separate herself from him, without ruining anything.

"he's not the one I'm loyal to."

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She answers so quickly, Eames almost has to ask her to repeat herself. He considers it for a moment, but he'd made the offer because he meant it and he has enough friends on the shadier sides of things to keep a lot of people off her back. And even those who don't care much... Well. They should get back to him soon enough.

Tracking down the runt who attacked her will take a little more work on his part, but he needn't bother Nancy with all that. Best to get things back on a more positive footing.

"Consider it done," Eames says with a smile and a tip of his glass in her direction before he finishes this glass of wine too. It's quickly becoming a liquid dinner for him, evidently.

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Fagin will, if nothing else, pay them each a visit. But he was a coward, and it wouldn't take more than a show of strength from Eames to get him to back off. Bastard.

"Thank you!" She breaths a sigh of relief and actually stands up from her part of the table, coming around to give him a hug. Yes, a hug, and even a quick kiss on the cheek. "Thank you- Eames, I mean it." She liked to think she could handle herself, but the past few months had been showing her just how wrong she was.

Satisfied with her show of affection, she returns to her seat to hold up her wine glass. "Should we drink to it?"

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Well that sure was some physical affection. Eames laughs softly, even going so far as to to tilt his cheek up toward her for the kiss, but make no mistake. He's glad once that moment's passed.

"Good idea," Eames tops up Nancy's glass and pours himself a new one, though with the way Eames has been getting through the wine that kind of finishes off the bottle. He sighs and gets up to get another from the kitchen. Or two. Between himself and Nancy, it's probably a realistic assumption that they could get through another two bottles without much effort.

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Nancy, for as good as she is with reading bodies, doesn't notice his slight discomfort. he hides it well and in no time she's happy to keep up with the drinking and the eating.

it's a huge relief to know that Eames is now officially looking after her. His name carries a weight that Fagin never would, especially now that he's been leading so many takeovers. Nancy eases back into her chair.

"how is Croydon looking?"

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It's almost like Nancy has never heard of a positive conversation topic. Eames clenches his jaw at the mention of Croydon and sighs, "like Daybreak will have it within the week." And boy is that a sore topic for Eames, more than them fucking up his deal with Midnight, they've taken a lot since Norrell came swanning into town.

"I'm working on moving people out of the Council's grasp right now."

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Positive conversation topics? Is wine considered a positive conversation topic?

She sighed heavily, shaking her head. It wasn't his fault, what had happened with the deal. She didn't blame him one bit, and if the others did, then they were wrong. It was Norrell's fault, completely. "Fuck Daybreak," she said, drinking more.

Okay, she can agree, that's an awful, depressing conversation topic.

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"I'll drink to that," Eames says with a i>slightly bitter laugh, and he raises his glass in a toasting motion before he takes another sip. His meal is pretty much forgotten at this point. Who needs food when you have bitterness and alcohol to sustain you?