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[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

She stuck her tongue out at him. "That's not very helpful."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"I'm not sure what I can do," he chuckled.

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

Laughing, she gave him a light shove. "Good excuse."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"Hey," he grinned, "I'd tell you to start from the beginning, but I don't think that's any help either.

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

She sighed and put on her serious face. "All right, here goes. From the beginning of the middle, how's that?"

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"Sounds great."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"I moved here when I was like seventeen, built my own house, hid from people trying to murder me," she ticked off her fingers, "I used to practice witchcraft, met long lost family, managed to distinctly not get killed--let me know when I start repeating myself."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"No, go on, this is interesting."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"Uh... fell in love, escaped more murder attempts--those tended to happen a lot. Chicago had it in for me big time. Then I watched everyone else's lives get screwed up for a time, because I was kind of content. People died, fell out of love, and then you showed up distinctly not dead in the forest by my house. Fun stuff."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"So I did."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

She nodded. "That's about it in a nutshell."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"So, you've had it rough, I gather."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"In all senses of the word."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

Chris nodded. "And where do I fit into this picture?"

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"I met you a few months after I came here. It was... difficult to get to know you. Not that I'm a very social creature or anything."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"Why was it difficult?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"You seemed just as intent as I was on being a lone wolf, I guess. And you had a few personal issues going on as well, I'd wager. You wouldn't ever really tell me everything."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"Seems like something I'd do," he said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head, "Did we ever get any closer?"

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"I suppose you could say that," she said, putting a lot of effort into making her voice light and casual.

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"Do you care to elaborate?"

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

She tilted her head to the side, trying to figure out how to word it. "We had a thing, yeah." What an underexaggeration.

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"The way you're saying it, I'm assuming it didn't go that great."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"Well, you died. Unhappy ending."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"I meant before that."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"It went rather well."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"That's good, that's good."

((i feel like he should remember that he had loved her, but not sure why or if she loved him back?))

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

((that sounds good to me))

"Is it?"

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

He nodded and then froze, staring at the ground. His eyes grew wide and he looked at her after a minute. "I loved you," he whispered.

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

She let herself smile sadly. "Yes," she replied in the same soft voice.

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

His face became confused as he gauged what he had just said. "I loved you?" he asked slowly.

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"Or so you'd told me every so often," she told him casually, ready to play it off as nothing if his reaction wasn't so great.

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

He opened his mouth to speak, but he closed it again. There was a very long moment of silence before he spoke again. "I find that hard to believe," he said, his eyebrows drawn together.

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

She nodded once, her voice giving away nothing of her disappointment. "I figured you might say something like that."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"No, no it's not you, it's just," he said and bit his lip, "I don't think I'm capable of love."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

Addie laughed a little and gave him a reassuring hug. "If I had a dollar for every time I'd thought or heard the same thing..."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

Chris hugged her back tightly. "Is it really true?"

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"Yes."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

He thought a moment. "Did you love me?"

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

She looked away for a second, and then decided to risk it: she leaned up and kissed him. "You have no idea."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

His face broke into a grin. "I think I might."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"Not until you get your memory back," she murmured. "We've got a ways to go yet."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"So lead the way. Tell me everything. I want to know."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

Addie smiled a little at him. "We'd been engaged for a while, actually. ((I don't remember if they actually got married yet because of his dad)) And you would always get into arguments with your dad about religion I think. You wouldn't always tell me about them."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"Engaged? Wow.."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

She nodded. "Didn't expect that?"

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"Not at all."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"Neither did I when you'd asked me," she confessed, smiling a little.

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

"But you said yes."

[Michelle, Where's your sense of adventure?]

"I did."

[Just Plain Ray, Cause it's nine in the afternoon...]

He nodded. "And the part about my dad isn't as surprising, but I haven't talked to him in years."