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Mintaka set the super heavy large picnic basket down, resting a hand against a tree and breathing in and out. She had been super late to asking for Tantalus and Damocles meeting by the camp that once housed them in the future, what had suppose to be two days, turned into two weeks, thanks to the kidnapping and her recovery to moving around.

Even now, extreme effort took more out of her then it would normally, and she was sure her ribs would never be quite the same. Her hand came up to touch the tender spot under her bodice. The bruises were nearly gone, that sickly yellow almost disappearing and taking the memory of the beatings with it.

But she planned to make it up to Tantalus and Damocles (she was so eager to meet him again, see him in this time) that she might be overcompensating with the rich decedant foods in the basket. Brie cheese, caviar, pickled veggies, well made tea sandwiches, along with all of the makings of tea set with her, the large tablecloth they could use. And chocolate. Because who didn't love chocolate?

She took another breath, as she waited for the feeling of the dark mirror boys to join her.

Damocles had all been dragged to this little meeting of Tantalus'. Which, in all honesty, might have come to a surprise to both the blonde and the brunette. Damocles had been so on the fence about seeing anyone that they had known from those dreams of another time and place. Been so off about going anywhere he even vaguely remembered.

And he definitely, vaguely remembered what was here. What should have been here. What wasn't here. Damocles could have argued with Tantalus that he had been here before, once. But he wouldn't. Not this time. Not now.

Instead his eyes settled on Tantalus as he let the smaller man pull him through the park to their appointed destination. Tantalus had stripped his fiance of both the large black jacket that made up a decent amount of his fuku, and the ribbon that was usually in his hair. Even though the jacket had been tied off, it was still beginning to work its way off the brunette's shoulder as he walked. The ribbon was fastened tightly around brown hair, complete with a bow. Oddly enough it made Damocles think Alistair looked very..... Colonial. In an weird sort of way.

"You need to calm down." He spoke. It was the first thing Damocles had said since they left their apartment.

"Are you alright?" Tantalus asked, as soon as he pulled Mintaka into a quick hug. He wasn't sure if she was still hurting, or if it was just a particularly heavy picnic basket. "Would you like me to get the basket? Or have Damocles carry it?" He gave his fiance his most innocent smile, practically fluttering his eyelashes at him.

"It's good to see you," he said, and his voice was soft and affectionate. Mintaka would always be a dear, dear friend.

Mintaka's face would be completely enamored with Damocles acceptance of her as well. There was no way she couldn't be! She even tried not to get a little weepy, because with every little acceptance from the dark mirrors, she felt a little closer to some sorts of a family.

She quietly handed the basket over, reached up to her tiptoes and kissed the blondes cheek.

"Thank you so much." She sniffled a little, then turned up the smiling, her gaze turning back to Tantalus. "I'm guessing you heard of my capture within the negaverse. I am okay." Better now, "I...had...I had someone to save me within so I didn't..." She wasn't sure if she should mention Aurostibite....

"This way, I thought..." She looked away, "that I would come to terms with the future and set about a new path. Like now. Instead of waiting for five years to meet you, we've met now. Instead of five years from now....I will live truer to the path I set out to achieve." She clenched her fist.

"Will it bother you?"

Damocles shot Tantalus a small side eyed glare and muttered something intangible when the brunette mentioned that he had seen some of the fall out. Though the blonde was caught off guard when Mintaka leaned up and kissed his cheek. It caused the taller man to lurch suddenly, almost as if he had tripped over his own two feet.Which in all honesty, he probably had.

"Just be careful who you trust in the Negaverse." Damocles murmured, trying to regain composer. "Just because they are close to you doesn't mean they aren't out to kill you." He muttered. "My sister is a Corrupt. A year ago, she used herself as bait for someone in order to lure Leto and the Dark Mirrors out of hiding. She blinded and killed Tantalus in that future..." Damocles could still see the scars in his mind, even though they no longer existed. "I do not remember if she killed me. If attacked me after that at all."

"You will not bother me. I just can not promise I will be as relaxed around your friends as you may want me to be."

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