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Laine sighed as she pushed a hand through her bangs as she made her way to the meet up. There was something fundamentally terrifying of the phrase ''We need to talk". Though, she supposed she had no room to talk. She had probably dropped the phrase a few times on Kor herself so, she really had no room to talk. There were probably a hundred reasons why they needed to talk, but if you asked Laine, she couldn't tell you a single one.

She picked at the sleeve of the oversized hoodie she was wearing as she entered the building. She probably shouldn't do it... It wasn't her hoodie, but she needed to do something with her hands. Though, picking at the hoodie was a better alternative then picking at the various knicks and marks that scattered her hands. Laine hadn't been able to focus much with work, and after so long, she'd finally called it quits till she could get her head back in the game...

However long that took.

There was a moment of hesitation, when she finally saw Kor, where Laine debated spinning on her heel and walking out the way she came But... She pushed through it. She owed him this much. Laine had said she'd show up more often, and then hadn't even bothered to keep up her end of the bargain.

Laine sighed again, dropping herself rather unceremoniously into the chair opposite him as she pulled the sleeves down and her hair free of the hoodie. "Is this gonna turn into a screaming match?" She asked. Laine really hoped it wouldn't She couldn't handle it right now if it were to end up that way.

"Good... I don't have the energy for it either." She mumbled. It wasn't that she was actively trying to stay away... She was just.. busy. Or that's what she told herself she was. Ever since the incident, Laine had kept an ear out. Listening for anyone whispering certain names, wondering about s**t they shouldn't be.

"Stop that." She saod suddenly, not even looking up. She could just, tell when Kor was staring at her. "It's my brothers." Probably the only one left of her family who still lived in the city, the only one left to who still talked to her.

"I'm.... something." She muttered. "I don't whether toncall it tired or srained or what." Laine waved a hand dismissively. "I'm existing, I guess." She got quiet then, fiddling with a ring on her finger. "Just... cause I haven't been around, doesn't mean I haven't been keeping watch, you know." Cats were useful like that.

"Senna." She said, flicking a fuzzy from the hoodie on to the floor. "The mad tall one?" Laine turned, finally looking at him only to hold a hand over her head, trying to indicate a height. "Two toned black and white hair?" She wasn't sure if Kor had every actually met any or all of her family. Coming from a big family, bringing a significant other to meet them was... exhausting. And she hadn't been in any rush to sick the horde on Kor like that.

"Existing even feels like a stretch some times." It sounded draining.. She didn't even feel like she was existing some days. Existing meant she was.. trying. And sometimes it felt like she was just on autopilot, going through the motions. Kor seemed to be doing better in that regard then her. But then again, he had the support network behind him to make sure of it.

Laine sighed. "I know... Believe me I know." Laine scrubbed at her face with the sleeves of the hoodie, suddenly wishing they were anywhere but a public place. Though, it was neutral ground. Someplace neither could control. She understand why it was picked, but still. Laine shoved her hands in the pocket of the hoodie. ".. It's.. a lot. I guess. Trying to cover tracks. Trying not to dwell on s**t to long... Watching." She shrugged listlessly. "Is... Is there a point? Really? If the two of you are just gonna..." A hand reappeared only to make a vague hand waving gesture before disappearing. "Ya know... If you and Kraven are gonna do that thing..." Was there a point in her getting attached, only to watch them disappear again? All of them? "The two of you might be ready for that, but... I'm not. At least not yet." Not mentally, physically, or emotionally. "You guys look happy though. It's nice to see Kraven can do something other then scowl." She gave a half smile.

"We are a lot of things Kor."

Sad, broken, a hot mess... The list went on.

"That I know. There was never a point where I didn't know, or wasn't reminded." Laine reached up behind her neck and seemed to fiddle with something before pulling a thick chain from her hoodie. ".... Putting it on a chain was probably a bit cliche but... I figured that was better then just sitting in a box.." She said, setting the chain, and what was on the chain, down on the table.

Laine scowled though, when he mentioned kids. A sore spot to be certain, one that, at this point she feared would never heal. "Things have changed Kor. You know that as much as I do." That time was over, gone. They were over, gone. Never to exist again. There was a part of her that wished they'd put that behind them, forget about it and move on. "I don't know if I can do... that." Now, or ever. She knew it was something Kor wanted, greatly.. But...

Laine huffed, shoving through the conversation.

She rolled her eyes, with a bit of a smirk. "I could have told you that you were greedy. I told you that you should have looked into a poly group. I called this s**t. Jesus christ..." She'd say she told him so but... He probably got the point by now. Laine sighed, wistfully. "Just cause you want me there, doesn't mean that's what the group wants as a whole.. Aren't you guys still on the mend from... ending up as a group? Is introducing someone new really the best thing right now?" Not to say she wouldn't be interested but...

Laine sighed as she stood, moving her chair next to Kor's, dropping herself in it. "Please stop looking like I kicked your nonexistent dog." She mumbled, leaning against his arm.

"It wasn't, but it did." And they couldn't change that. "s**t like that happens, whether we want it to or not." Sometimes, people just drifted apart. "What you're gonna do, is talk to them. All of them. Kraven probably won't care, but Kazuo and the kid are a different story." They didn't know her and she didn't know them. "We can say we'll fo whatever but.. They need to be included in the discussion and decision too."

"I am.... willing to give things a shot." She said nervously. "But only if everyone is okay with it. And I mean everyone." she wasn't about to disrupt everything, just to make someone unhappy. "No begging either."

"Oh I'm definitely vanishing." She was still not back to her old self... Just thinking about the amount of... people... energy. Ugh. She was going to get so drained, so quickly.

Laine rolled her eyes, looking around them. "Yeah you couldn't have picked a less... foot traffic place?" She mumbled wanting to hide in the confines of her hoodie. Though, she wasn't entirely sure she'd show up in the house. Maybe she would, maybe she wouldn't. She honestly didn't have an answer.

"Would you show up if you woke up to a text that says "We need to talk"?" She asked. It was almost like she knew what Kor was thinking cause she yawned behind a sleeve.

"Yeah, it's probably... not a good idea if I'm there for the conversation. It might make people think they already have no choice, or they say yes just because I'm there. I can talk to people later if they want, but it's probably better I'm not there at first?" Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. For all her talk in the past in being interested, Laine had never been involved in anything like this. She didn't know what the best course of action was.

"I either need coffee, or a nap." She muttered, hiding another yawn behind a sleeve.