The Promises Meme

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the promises meme • Comment with your character's name and fandom in the subject line. • Select an option or roll RNG for a prompt. • Play! prompts i. family. A promise made in the name of family, whether literal or metaphorical. ii. business. No personal feelings involved. Just a working agreement. iii. romantic. A promise to your lover, something that binds you together. iv. enemy. Looks like you made a deal with the devil. v. too good to be true. A promise with hidden caveats. vi. false. A promise you don't intend to keep. vii. broken. A promise you've betrayed. viii. fulfilled. The time has come to make good on your word. ix. bound. A promise you have to keep, whether by threat, blackmail or magic. x. secret. A pact you can't reveal. xi. forever. You're promising forever after. xii. never. You promise that something will never happen. Ever.

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[sheriffing]

You get used to the nuns after a while.

[At least Emma has, now that she realizes they don't go around judging people. She has never taken any interest in religion, but these women seem determined to help people more than to push their faith on everyone else, and that's something she can respect.

The thought of Chase being uncomfortable is enough to make her lips twitch with amusement, but a smile - not quite. She's still holding a box with a heart in it, and she knows it's the heart of a woman who only wanted to start her life over after a painful betrayal. Kathryn didn't deserve this; no one deserves this.]

You don't seem like the sheep station type.

[If it sounds like she's implying that she expects he likes to be comfortable, she is. Most people would, it's not meant as an insult.]

[clinically]

It's not like I was raised on one. [Actually, he was more or less raised by nuns.] But three months swapping the OR for a clapped out little bush plane and on-the-spot trauma work hundreds of miles from the nearest emergency department sounded like fun.

[And it had been. As well as a chance to get away from being who he was, the son of who he was, the reputation his father had around the hospital and the long shadow the man cast. New Jersey had been a later extension of the same thought.

He's used to the way most people take him. There are enough silver spoon and yachting jokes to last him a lifetime - and it's not something he can exactly deny. There was always money in his life. He's used to some of what it can offer.]

But [he concedes,] you're right. I hate sheep.

[sheriffing]

I hate she smell.

[She's thinking less of sheep and more of the scent in Gold's shop the day he was working in the back. Emma's type of roughing it involves living out of a car, not living in the middle of nowhere. What's harder, she couldn't say for sure. But doing what she did wasn't easy, even if there were days when it felt like an adventure.]

But it's not as bad as this.

[The box, the heart. His jacket - she will definitely be paying to have it cleaned for him. When the man they're waiting for finally decides to come over, she does all of the talking, not bothering to explain Chase's presence in an effort to keep him uninvolved. He'll be in her reports, there's no way around that, but he doesn't need random people asking him questions.

She unwraps the box and sets his jacket on the counter while she waits so that the heart can be removed without disturbing the box. They don't do it there, and she almost asks to watch, but she allows them to take it away so that they're stuck waiting again.]

Sometimes I hate people, too.