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[Tina hops out of the car first, in order to give Magnus more room to get out himself; once they're both on solid ground again, she leans against him briefly.

She feels a lot better about having to make this choice after hearing that he doesn't want her to leave, but the fact that he's still open to the possibility means that he thinks it's a good idea, and she trusts his thoughts.]

... I don't want to leave you and Ango and the dogs, either. [Because Alf and Uncle Jesse are part of the family, as far as Tina's concerned, and she knows how much Magnus adores them.] Our house is the only home I've had since I got here, and I know Maurtia Falls almost like I know my hometown. Even if it IS dangerous and kinda seedy, I have everything I need and want there. But it feels like things just keep getting worse and worse, and I can't have someone protecting me 24 hours a day. I need to weigh that into it, too, because if something were to happen to me... I don't want to think about what it'd do to Mom. Gene, Louise and I are the most important things in the world to her. And I know if we were to leave, she'd bloom where she's planted.

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[ Magnus wants to protest, say that he can protect her, that he'd escort her to and from school and to and from any of the other places she wants to go to if necessary, but he knows that's not what any kid would want. He'd been a lot younger than Tina when he started running off on his own, and he knows full well that he'd be furious if his independence was ever limited, even for his own good. ]

Well... I leave that part up to you, kiddo. Sounds like you've been thinking about it a lot, and you can make that choice better 'n I can. We'll adjust. We always do.

[ And he's been thinking about making some life changes if she moves, too. Things that he'll have to keep up. It means that he'll keep on fighting at the ring - he'll need the cash, not that he'd been planning on stopping in the first place - but it'll be worth it. ]

I just... you get that I'm not so sure I can pick up everything and move too, right?

Yeah... no matter what.

[Tina stands on tiptoe so that she can kiss him on the cheek. It's not a gesture of affection she shows all that much, but it shows how much he still means to her.]

... yeah, I understand. I mean, I wouldn't expect you to uproot everything, too. Especially 'cause you're better equipped to handle things there than I am. But the Porters still exist. And communicators. We'd still see each other.

[It won't be the same, she knows. But it'd have to do. Thinking of her safety is the mature thing to do, she thinks, no matter how much it hurts. No matter how much she doesn't want to.]

Oh, yeah. No way would I just let us fall outta touch or anything. I was actually thinking... well. How about I show you? It's not that far away from here.

[ It's not a terribly long walk away. It's pretty close to imPort housing, in fact, and fairly close to Heropa's high school. At first, it doesn't look like much -- all it is is a small apartment building, crammed full of apartments. He gestures up at it. ]

If you move here, you might not wanna come back to Maurtia Falls all that often. You're thinkin' about leaving for a reason. So... no reason I can't come to you every now and then. And after the others got ported out, it ain't like I don't have the cash to, uh, reserve a place. Could work okay.

Okay.

[She sounds intrigued, and so she follows along; her jaw then drops, and she turns to him, incredulous. Her heart is pounding, and she looks back at the apartment building, then back at him.]

You... you'd do that for me? I... I don't know what to say. Not in a bad way, just in a "holy crap that's so nice" kinda way.

If I can swing it, sure. It wouldn't just be for you. I still wanna hang around you too. So do the dogs - and so does Ango. None of us would be against taking weekends off here sometimes.

[ Magnus shrugs. ]

Weren't we just talking 'bout making the most of the time we got with each other? There's no point in having money if you don't use it on the stuff that mattes.

[It's a short while before Tina can speak; she puts her arms around Magnus instead, taking several deep, steadying breaths, because otherwise she's going to burst out crying.

Not that she hasn't done that before, and he hasn't done the same to her, but still.

She's filled with mixed emotions, because even the possibility of what he's suggesting has tipped her mental scales toward "move away" and she's still weighing the good and bad about that. But more than that, the fact that he's thinking of going that far so that he and Angus and the dogs can continue to be part of her life... it means more than she can put into words.]

I love you.

[That's all she can manage at first.]

And knowing I matter to you so much that you'd even consider... I can't say thank you for that enough.

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