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[sheriffing]

No.

I just have magic.

[priorly]

Oh, just magic. I see. And fluttering your eyes to make men fall in love with you wouldn't be that.

[sheriffing]

I think that might be more your super power than mine, Prior.

[priorly]

Oh my eyelashes are straight from the dollar store, no magic to that. Although it may explain that emergency I mentioned.

Do you use a wand?

[sheriffing]

I'd be afraid of the false ones they sell around here.

No, that's more of a fairy thing. Like the Blue fairy, or Tinker Bell before she lost her wings.

[priorly]

Hold on.

What did they do to Tinker Bell? It was that boy she hung around with, wasn't it. Men are beasts.

[sheriffing]

She lost her wings for disobeying Blue, and got them back after she took out Pan's shadow. Peter Pan was evil, now he's dead. Hook was a villain, and now he's from the future where he's happy to tell me he's put a ring on it.

Although dead meant more before the end of the world than it does here. Pan's in one of those pods now.

[priorly]

These stories are so much more complex than I remember. so you married the pirate?

[sheriffing]

Technically only one of us is married. His last memory of our world is our wedding day, but my memories don't go that far. I haven't caught up.

You should see the velvet tux he showed up in. I feel like you would've objected.

[priorly]

Velvet has its place, though midsummer isn't it.

How far do your memories go? Is the love he has something you've yet to fall in?

[sheriffing]

Don't challenge me, I'll show it to you.

I would've asked him out back home? But I've seen the memories that prove that a later me would basically (literally) drag him out of the Underworld when I lost him. That's kind of big, you know? I wasn't ready for big, I was ready for a movie and a snack.

[priorly]

I'd imagine he'd be useful for toasting marshmallows. And how are things now, despite your defaming his dress sense across the network?

[sheriffing]

He sleeps on my couch, bonds with my dog, and walks around practically naked because he forgets that I have no memory of living with him. We're a sitcom after the end of the world, it's ridiculous.

But I missed him, and I'm glad he's awake. Even if this is my life now.

What about you?

[priorly]

Me? Oh. Well, it's unlikely there would be anyone from my future turning up to tell me I married them. One less thing to worry about.

[sheriffing]

Alright, let's put it another way. If all hell breaks loose, who are you going to check in on here?

[priorly]

My ex, and my ex ex, in the pods. And my current, and my current's ex who's recently become my other current, here.

[sheriffing]

You'd check on your exes? You're a good person.

[priorly]

One of them happens to be my best friend.

And I'd check on you, I like you.

[sheriffing]

Then I'm sorry the two of you were separated.

I like you, too. I wouldn't let anything happen to you.

[priorly]

Me too. I could use her advice on the current-current's-ex-curre... oh I cant remember how I phrased it. The situation. My emotional emergency.

And you are a savior, if you did you'd hardly be living up to the name.

[sheriffing]

Oh, so the emotional emergency is a person.

I have to keep earning that title or they'll take it away.

[priorly]

Two people, but I'm afraid so.

We should get you a little pin with it on - make it harder.

[sheriffing]

What's the problem?

No more pins. I already have a "sorry about you getting kidnapped" pin.

[priorly]

Oh me too, I've somehow managed not to stamp on it.

What would you do if the handsome prince you've always wanted to kiss finally got over himself enough to kiss you back. And then you hooked up with the handsome prince your handsome prince used to kiss, way back when, and now you'd like to kiss the both of them but you're just not sure how anyone's going to take that.

And you really don't want to screw things up with either of them.

[sheriffing]

If that's how you're feeling, why don't you tell them that?