Adventures in Babysitting (c)

[Goblin]

He sighed. She'd hear the whole story sooner or later. "Pretty serious, I guess, if intense means serious. But it was really based on...I mean, the thing that first brought us together, that we were really all about..." He was abruptly hit with a worse wave of anxiety than he'd experienced since Script had first started touching him. There was a reason he hadn't talked about any of this stuff. He fought through it and finished up quickly. "We caused trouble. Lots and lots of trouble. I guess we were both really angry about everything that went on in there, and we wanted to fight back, so..." He shrugged. "We fought back."

[Script]

She watched him, lips pursed. He was sweating, clearly nervous about telling her the exactly circumstances of his relationship with this Riddle girl. "What do you mean...'fought back'..? What happened in there, Sebastian..?"

[Goblin]

"Um. Lots of stuff?" He curled up in a fetal position on the edge of the bed, facing away from her so he could maybe manage a little more of this story. "Things broke. Food disappeared from the kitchens. Kids somehow got out of their rooms after hours. Every one of the nicer or dumber staff members started doing us random favors, 'cause we figured out how to flatter them or bribe them or make them feel guilty.

"And when we ran out of plans and got bored," he finally admitted, "we'd just talk back. Every chance we got." There was a reason most of the Refuge kids thought of him as a hero and most of the staff wanted to utterly destroy him. More than they already had, that is.

[Script]

She didn't go to him, though she wanted to. She stood there, staring at his back while he told her his story. She knew there was more. And she also knew it would be like pulling teeth to get anymore out of him.

"Will...what'll happen when you get thrown back in there? Will they...will she..?" She wasn't sure what she was asking, exactly. She only knew that if she hadn't been scared before, she was now.

[Goblin]

"That's what I was wondering when I first started planning this whole thing," he admitted. "Whether I'd even last a day in there. So I kind of...tested the waters." He reluctantly turned around to face her again. "Before you even got here, but not long after me and my sister did, I helped Wraith do...something illegal." Don't even ask, his eyes begged. "I got caught, and everyone thought it was an accident, but it wasn't. I let it happen because I wanted to go back to the Refuge, see what it was like after the newsies' strike inspired all those 'reforms.'" He rolled his eyes.

"Well, it's still...bad. Really bad. But they did replace most of the staff. And no one immediately tried to kill me, so that's, uh...good." He tried for an encouraging smile. "Anyway, Risk got me out after just a few days. Wraith made a deal with him. So this'll be arrest number three for me, and hopefully the last."

[Script]

She took a deep breath, letting it out a little shakily as she sat on the edge of the bed. What had she gotten herself into? She'd already agreed to help, and she wouldn't back out, but...but she was scared. Scared of what might happen, scared of what might go wrong. And the fact that she was in love with a guy who'd been in and out of prison three times just made her more nervous. Because make no mistake -- Maggie was absolutely in love with him.

"It'll...it'll be okay, Sebastian. We'll go in, we'll get information, and we'll get out. And then you go on the straight and narrow." She gave him a weak smile.

[Goblin]

"No promises," he said with a bit of a smirk. "One thing you have to say for me, Maggie--I gave you plenty of warning before we started this relationship."

It was true. She'd known he was scheming and manipulative and had serious post-trauma issues and a dangerous vendetta. And if there was one thing she hadn't known--one big, important thing that was currently gnawing at his conscience--well, it was her fault, really, for not using all that other information to figure it out.

But his smirk still melted away when he thought about it. "Look," he said, taking her hand, "you don't have to do this. You really, really don't. I can probably get all the information I need on my own. You could help Clara get me out. It's not like that part's not important."

[Script]

She bit her lip, meeting his eyes. They were so guarded. No matter how hard she searched them, she still couldn't figure him out.

Maggie was nothing if not naive.

She put her hand to his cheek, leaning forward to kiss him, letting her lips linger there a minute. "I'm not gonna back out, Sebastian. I don't want you in there on your own, not knowing if you're okay." She kissed him again, because she could and because it made her feel better. "Rae'll be here soon to pick up the baby." She gave him a wry smile. "And then we gotta get ourselves arrested."

((I love this. So. SO. Much.))

[Goblin]

((ME TOO. In an evil way. He doesn't mean to be a horrible person! ))

"Yup." He returned her smile and smoothed back her hair, kissing her playfully on the earlobe. "Wish us luck, Sean," he said to the sleeping baby, his fingers tightening around Script's hand.

((Off to bed with me! Shall we end it here, and continue with the actual arrest when we're both back from our hopefully awesome weekends?))

[Script]

((Yes ma'am! Night!))

[Goblin]

(('Night! <3))