I just don't know how to win with you ○ [ closed ]

[traitortwin]

who. Agents South (traitortwin) and North (noscope)
what. angry shouting!!! >| on South's end. and then twin shenanigans as they gain their bearings together.
where. Zeta district
when. sometime after North's settled with Carolina and South is in the process of moving in with her new roomies~
warnings. South should be her own warning language. ... otherwise idk. will update if necessary.

South was... sort of situated with a living arrangement. Really, the whole thing was far more complicated in her mind than she'd ever want to admit, but at the end of the day, this was probably going to be better. In the long run, at least. In the short term, she might hurt these weird-ass strangers she'd ended up stuck with, but she was going to at least try to stay out of their way. She just hoped they'd do the same. They'd better. Or else.

Anyway.

After depositing what little she had to call her own onto a bed that she'd claimed as "hers", she went to find her brother. He couldn't have been far, since Miss Bitch In Charge was only letting them go so far for right now, so at least that was less time she'd have to spend looking for him. She figured he was probably finding his own place to stay - with Carolina, of course. Which is why she'd been on her own (like fuck was she going to live with them like that, come on now)... sort of. To be honest, even if that hadn't been the case, there was still some part of her that wanted to prove herself to be separate from her brother somehow. Call it a stubborn sibling thing. Even if on some level, maybe it would have been better if...

Ugh. She was thinking about all of that bullshit again, wasn't she?

Irritated and still more than a little bit uncomfortable with this whole being-in-another-weird-place scenario, South did her best to shut out her strange, circular, conflicting, spiraling thoughts and focused on finding North. How else were they going to get anything done?

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[traitortwin]

She was only a terrible liar when it came to him.It was something she knew, but that didn't stop her from trying. Anything to get this conversation to just stop. It wasn't working, though. She wasn't stupid. So she groaned, resigned.

"Great. Fine. Whatever." She turned her back to him, flipping her hand in the air over her shoulder, completely dismissive. "Why don't you just go, okay? I don't feel like talking anymore."

Later. Just... later. Later, she could hold a conversation with him. He could properly apologize and she'd properly hear him out. They could start patching things up. Right now, though, she was done.

[noscope]

He knew it was only when it came to him. Everyone else? She could bluff until she was blue in the face, but it never seemed to matter when it was just the two of them. He'd learned from an early age - or maybe he hadn't learned it so much as unconsciously adopted the ability - to tell when she was trying to pull one over on him, and it was something that got stronger as they got older.

Something in his chest tightened when she told him to go. He should have known that it was coming, that there needed to be some distance between them while she processed this. But even still, expecting it and actually hearing her say it were two very different things.

North swallowed around the sudden lump in his throat. "Yeah .. sure." His voice didn't waver, but its tone belied everything that he was feeling on the inside and didn't show outwardly.

He might have been notorious for wearing his heart on his sleeve where his sister was concerned, but if she wanted him gone, there was nothing he could do but give her the space she needed. He ducked his head again, chin almost tucked against his chest.

"You know where to find me."

[traitortwin]

That tone.... That tone always killed her, even though she always, always refused to show it. She bit it back, fought it down. She refused to let anything show other than anger. And she didn't look at him again.

She nodded once when he'd said his peace. "Right. I do." She hesitated, but she did add, "And I'm not going anywhere either."

Even just that little bit was... a little something. Not that she was aware of as much.

[noscope]

She was good at hiding it. If he'd been looking at her, he might have seen a flicker of it - but since he already had his back turned, it went without his notice.

Something in his chest felt like it was going to burst, and he didn't like it, but there was nothing else he could do here. They'd both said what they wanted to say, and she'd screamed at him for all she wanted, and the only thing they could do now was let it sit. Wait.

His head picked up the slightest bit at the last thing she said, and though he didn't respond, it did speak volumes. But then again, the smallest things between them always seemed to carry the most weight.

"I'm glad."

It was all he said before he got out of her space entirely.