Title: Maybe Not
Fandom: Revenge
Rating: G
Length: 100
Warning: None.
Summary: The other side of Emily Thorne disagrees.
Notes: Also written for writerverse Table of Doom.



He comes to me in the middle of the night, black-eyed, split-lipped with a bruise forming on his cheek.

There are a million things I would like to say, most of them bordering on, “I told you so,” and “You should have known.” But I stay silent as I clean him up and his eyes study mine.

“You don’t want me here,” Aiden says as he watches me closely. “You want me to leave.”

I smile gently as my fingers graze his injured cheek. That was true once, but now…

“The thing is, I wouldn’t have it any other way.”