[It took Angel hours to open the message, just as it always seemed to be. This time, however, it took even longer for her to consider an answer. Athena had offered to be the siren's shield. She was the only person Angel felt that she could trust to protect her. It wasn't that she didn't think Janey was capable, she'd already proven on several occasions that she was not a woman to be trifled with.]
[But still, she was afraid.]
[And then, of course, there was the fact that Jack seemed... unlike himself. Vices like alcohol were the exact sort of things heh ad tried to keep her from in her old life. On the one hand, it left her feeling uneasy. But even worse was the fact that it played with that small spark of hope in the back of her mind.]
[Maybe this place had changed him.]
Will you give me time to think about it?
[She would do more than thinking, of course. She'd need to sit down with Athena, perhaps even Janey, and have a serious conversation about it. She doubted Athena would appreciate her wife going up against a former megalomaniac on her own. And that was even if Angel said she was interested.]
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[But still, she was afraid.]
[And then, of course, there was the fact that Jack seemed... unlike himself. Vices like alcohol were the exact sort of things heh ad tried to keep her from in her old life. On the one hand, it left her feeling uneasy. But even worse was the fact that it played with that small spark of hope in the back of her mind.]
[Maybe this place had changed him.]
Will you give me time to think about it?
[She would do more than thinking, of course. She'd need to sit down with Athena, perhaps even Janey, and have a serious conversation about it. She doubted Athena would appreciate her wife going up against a former megalomaniac on her own. And that was even if Angel said she was interested.]