Inpu's POV
I know Bryan moving in was my idea, but I was still very hesitant to let him move in.
He said we could move into my place since he wanted to use his apartment as an office, but I think he wanted to have his own safe space and I didn't blame him.
The only reason we decided to move in before we decided to get married was because we were going to have kids together, but thoughts of my mother constantly came up as I tried to clean.
Before I was born, my parents were inseparable, my father was a crime boss who used his power to get what he wanted, and my mother was the cop who was always on scene to get him out.
Once my sibling and I were born, my mother became a stay at home mother, but it never stopped my father from doing what he did best.
He started to train me when I was little, the second my father saw my power, he started my training.
My mother didn't like that he was training us, but she couldn't do much, after all, my father would threaten her on a bad day and she never wanted to tempt fate.
It wasn't until my father came home after a week cause he had to lay low that my mom ever challenged him.
She called the cops on him late one night which woke me up, all I can remember of the night was sneaking downstairs and hearing the cops yelling at my father.
All I could hear was something about abuse, which I later learned my mother lied about my father physically abusing us, then the next thing I knew, my father was dead on the ground.
I remember running to my father's side only to be pulled off by one of the cops who went to take his body.
My mom tried to explain that my father was a bad guy, but I knew my father better than my mother when it came to what he actually did, so I never listened to my mother after that night.
The excuses my mother gave for my father caused my backup plan if it ever came to it.
Despite how bad my last ditch effort would be, there was a bigger part to it, once I was old enough to take my father's villain name, I made it known to my mother that I was still very mad about my father's passing before I took her prisoner.
Magnus knew the story, they put themself in charge of watching my prisoners, which I didn't mind since I didn't have them go out often for jobs.
The memories of my childhood came up while I was cleaning a mirror, all I know was I came back to reality when I heard Bryan yell that he was here.
I went over to where Bryan was, not even realizing that I cut my hand subconsciously while remembering my childhood which I found to be a normal thing.
Before I could even say a thing to Bryan, I felt him grab my hand and start to use some of his healing aura on my hand.
"So what happened?"
"What do you mean?"
"Your hand, it always has some kind of cut as of recently, what's causing them?"
"My father was killed around this time of year when I was six, like I've said before, there was no reason for it, he used to slightly cut my hand to help me control part of my magic, so I started to do it without thinking when I got mad at the cops, the habit just never went away"
"Would it be possible for you to stop? I really don't want to see you hurt, so if you need something to help you stop the habit, you can always think of me"
"Heh, what did I do to deserve you?"
"Something right~"
"Speaking of doing something right, any update on the orbs?"
"Went to the doctor with them earlier today for my yearly wellness check, still not expecting to have our first kid for two years"
"Alright, so I guess that gives us time to work on the apartment"
"I was debating we keep using the apartment cause of the spare rooms, or we could always get a house outside town so we could still keep up with our jobs"
"Maybe, but right now I don't think that's in the cards for us, I work one job that pays decent enough to keep an apartment and you work two jobs so you can stay in the safe part of town"
"Yeah, but think about it, we could get a nice place somewhere we don't need to worry about anyone breaking in, the kids will eventually have will have a great space to live and grow up in, if we start saving now, we can easily get a loan by the time the first one is born"
"We can consider it, but for now, I really don't think that's something we're ready for together yet"
"You've already committed to letting me move in, how are we not ready for that?"
"Its more the loan part, if we can get a place in cash, that's another thing, but I never have qualified for really any loans since my mother messed up my credit score, so that worries me"
"Then we put it under my name, I've never had any issues, all you'd need to do is give me half of the payment and we're good"
"Like I said before, maybe, we still have time to think about it, so lets take some time to get used to our current situation, you know, actually get you moved in first"
"Alright, alright, you have anything you want to watch or no? If not, I've been dying to watch a new show with you sometime soon"
"I do have something I wanted to watch before we worked on dinner, but we can always play your show while we make and eat dinner"
"That would be nice"
Bryan gave me a very bubbly smile while I went to put on a movie, his smile always seemed to brighten the apartment.
We got all cuddled up and as time passed, we realized neither of us wanted to cook dinner, so we ended up ordering in.
The happy look I always got when Bryan saw me never failed to lift my spirits from whatever was lowering my mood, so it just made me hope everything went according to plan, I don't know what I'd do if I ever had to hurt him.
