#hannah grose. verse 003. ( later time at bly )

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@wasworthy​ said:    “ even the strongest heart gets broken. ” rest in mourning starters  •  accepting.

“Ah, are we speaking from experience here, Owen?” Hannah sets her cup of tea back down on the table, watching his back as he prepares lunch at one of the counters. Her smile is audible, though. “It certainly isn’t a stretch to imagine that there’s a trail of broken hearts from Bly to Paris and back again, thanks to you.”

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“I'm hoping you’ll understand.“

@enchantedorigins​ gets another spooky lyric one-liner for Jamie In for the Kill  ( La Roux,  La Roux  ( 2009 ) )

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@wasworthy​ ​ said:    “ i know when your heart is heavy. ” whiskey words and a shovel ii starters  •  accepting.

“Ridiculous man.” The words come almost without her having to think them, fondness in them and in her level gaze as she looks at him. But even then, she has to acknowledge... He does, doesn’t he?

Since that first meeting, sat across from one another at the kitchen table as she interviewed him for the job, Owen has been open with her. What was it that he’d said - ‘I’m too honest. It’s probably pathological’? That rather sums him up, she thinks, and in turn he brings that out in others. 

He is a warm, constant presence at Bly, and she loves him for it. Loves him for more than just that, if she’s honest with herself. He’s so easy to talk to; always ready with a perfect cup of tea, or a pun she can roll her eyes at, or that look in his eyes that makes her want to tell him everything. 

That makes her want to be Hannah with him, not just Mrs Grose.

“Today is-- was my anniversary.” She relents.  “I suppose that’s why I seem a little... Melancholy.”

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”How do you know that you're right?”

@wasworthy​​ gets another lyric one-liner Bling  ( Confession of a King )  ( The Killers,  Sam’s Town  ( 2006 ) )

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@wasworthy​ ​ said:    “ even the strongest heart gets broken. ” rest in mourning  •  accepting.

It occurs to Hannah that there are still so many things that she doesn’t know about him.

Owen has been with them for a few months now, and has become a part of the fabric at Bly so easily that sometimes she finds herself forgetting that he hasn’t always been there. But at times like this, when they’re chatting as he peels vegetables and she bows to his insistence that she ‘put her feet up for five minutes’ and have a cup of tea, she realises how much she still has to learn about him.

Her own reasons for living in the manor had come up naturally. Owen had made a passing, teasing comment about how one day he’d manage to get to work before her and - laughing - she explained why that was unlikely to ever be the case. The story is tied as much to her loyalty to the Wingraves as it is to her betrayal by her ex-husband, and she finds it hurts less every time she tells it. These days she focuses on the way they had - the way Charlotte had insisted on her making Bly her home without a second thought, and in doing so provided Hannah with much needed stability at a time when the foundations of her life had shifted beneath her in ways that she could never have predicted.

She’s smiling as she tells him this, but she doesn’t miss the way his gaze softens - not with the pity she so detested from others, but with something closer to concern. She isn’t too surprised when that prompts a surge of affection in her; she’s learned quickly that Owen’s charm is genuine, and it has endeared him to her all the more.

“But what about you, hm?” She asks, voice somewhere between gentle curiosity and teasing as she cradles a cup of tea between her palms, deflecting. “I can’t help but imagine you left a trail of broken hearts behind you when you left Paris.”

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STARTER CALL  •  @willowdied​  •  Dani Clayton

Hannah sets a cup of tea down in front of Dani, before moving to sit on the other side of the table. “Now, you have to pardon my curiosity, but what on earth brings a beautiful young American to Bly, of all places?"