Amends (the whole gang)

[Lyra Newbury]

Lyra forced a smile to cover her disappointment. She had pushed too much, just like she knew she was going to. Merlin, she was going to mess this up too. Why did she always ruin everything?

"Sorry," she said with a forced laugh in attempt to play off the embarrassing moment. "Night, all."

Lyra walked into the building and when she was safely on her own floor she pulled off her enchanted earrings as she headed to her door. She berated herself in her head as she walked through the dark living room to her bedroom and fell onto her bed. She prayed her moment of weakness wouldn't ruin all of the progress she and Julian had made.

[Julian Faust]

Julian would have been stunned to hear the doubt in her mind, though truthfully it would have put a pressure on him that he wasn't ready for. But at the end of the date he'd grown confident that maybe things could be fine between them. Maybe they could make things work, so long as Nik didn't get too friendly with his girl.