meme → accepting !!

                    It’s Thea’s light laughter that pulls her attention first, she only catches bits and pieces of the conversation going on behind her but she can’t help but notice that there’s a certain calm that comes with it. Her team is safe, Thea is safe, they are taking a break for the first time in what seems like forever – and they deserve a million more. Her fingers are moving quickly over her keyboard, the proposal she’s working on coming together to the ‘soothing’ background noise of Rene and Thea giving each other shit while Dinah lounges in a chair next to them. Ok, Thea’s handing him his ass but she’s trying to be impartial, give Rene a fighting chance before Thea gives him the proverbial KO. It’s the first ‘m’ word that makes her perk up soon as it leaves Rene’s mouth, and the second that stills her fingers over her keyboard in the form of Thea’s semi-defensive retort. She knows Rene didn’t mean it but that doesn’t stop a sharp, ❛ Hey, ❜ from slipping out before she can stop it, before she can reign in the need to defend Thea – even if it’s to herself. Her head snaps up from her work so quickly that she swears can hear the sound of her ponytail whipping through the air, a scowl marring her features as she settles worried blue hues on Thea. ❛                     You were never a monster, not even on your worst day. ❜ It comes out more GROWLY than she means it to, and it’s a shock that she can even make that noise in her throat. ❛ And –  ❜ She hates that she still thinks so. She hates it more than she can even put into words. ( But she’d hate it more if Thea wasn’t there at all. ) ❛ And – I hope you know that.  ❜