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Scars relationship with Grian over the past few years, the past few seasons, had been an endless road of complexity and struggle, a push and pull almost always present between them. They were perfectly fine to begin with, that much was true, third life was the strongest they're relationship had been, but it slowly began to falter and wilter, soon after that - after the cactus ring, Scar knew exactly why they were almost almost in this mess - how could he forget?
This season - though it started messy, so so messy, the two actually managed to pull through the technical betrayals between them and rekindle, they never dared to tempt fate again by properly calling themselves a "team" again - even if they two wanted to, in the end, they couldn't- Grian had his team already, the spanners, and had his team - a team he adored and would die for if he ended up having to, the bamboozlers
And Scar loved bam, they meant the world to him, especially after they teamed with him the series after he won alone, nobody to celebrate with
It's just - and don't he didnt feel bad and driven by guilt ridden thoughts about doing so - Scar was, choosing to not mention to his lovely team that he and Grian were well, more than friends again - he wasn't keeping it secret, far from it, he was just carefully bit involving them - to keep a secret of that length from his team would be just horrible!
It wasn't a secret, he told himself when Grian and him were home alone at bars base, Scar being the one to make sure and paranoid that they were truly, well, home alone the - not paranoia, really, setting to the back burner of his mind consistently
It wasn't a secret, he told himself, reassured himself when he only ever made plans to preen Grians wings late at a starry night, when he knew for sure the two siblings in his team were sound asleep, most definitely - or at least they were hopefully unlikely - not planning to suddenly awake from their deep, hopefully happily dreaming rest/slumber
It wasn't a secret when he got caught - wait, what even was there to catch?, can you even catch someone in something that, wasn't a secret?
Jimmy and lizzie both had agreed that they wished to speak about something with Scar in the bam bunker when the brunette was next free
Which just so happened to be, that night, given Grian had informed and told him he had to cancel their plans suddenly that cloudful skied morning
Scar was blissfully unknowing and unaware as he placed his own tanned hand on the entrance trap door, lifting it up and open towards his direction. Scar replaced the hold on the trap door with a new grasp around and on the wooden ladder sat below, letting the wind blow the wooden trapdoor harshly slammed down. Scar proceeded to climb down the ladder, feeling his feet hit the bunkers ground.
Scar turned around his tanned body, facing boyh the wooden table taking up the majority of the underground rooms space, and his two team mates, one of which leaned her pale arms crossed ontop of the table
"Hello!" Scar cheerfully let himself flash a smile, his tanned hand previously held on the ladder waving to his friends
"Hey..." Lizzies smile was faint, but luckily still present, clinging on for dear life
Scars brown eyebrows immediately furrowed further into the scars of his face, the tone lizzies voice held making worry hurl around in his gut
"Uh is- is everything okay?" Scar dropped his usual chipper tone, abandoning it just this once
Lizzie nodded her head, her pink haired, bubblegum hair bouncing
"Yeah!- im- we're just...curious about something" the girl seemed to take any steps in her speech carefully
"We think grians sleeping in your bed again' Jimmy, impatient, blurted out - an elbow bashing right into the blondes stomach once it left the table it sat on
Scar batted his eyelashes, putting up a ruse, a lie of confusion "wha- no! Why do you think that?"
"I- we found something randomly in your bed that raised a few red flags" Lizzie turned her pink head to face the direction her brother stood, her wide eyed state a signal, a prompt to Jimmy to do something Scar was unsure of the details of. Jimmy's hand left his pocket, where it had been resting during the length of the conversation, and in his hand was a feather - a familiar scarlet coloured feather - rested between two of Jimmy's fingers
"You found that in my bed?" Scar attempted to put up or continue an act of shprise - and was mildly successfully in doing so too
Jimmy nodded "- but I told Grian to stop- you guys know I talked to him about it" - this was true, he did confront him about his suspiciously waffled scented pillows at the time
"Clearly he didn't get the memo" Jimmy's gaze lowered down off of its intense stare at Scars face, dropping to glance at the feather he had, swirling and twirling the object around a few/couple of his fingers
"We k- Jimmy's had, informed me of your... past together and- well, I guess we just don't want to- or feel like we're being left in the dark if something was..." Lizzie trailed her sentence off, her blue glance doing something as it fell down to the wooden table
Scar knew exactly what she meant, the girl with bubblegum coloured hair didn't need to finish her sentence or elaborate any further, the message was as clear as day
"-Nothings happening guys- I'd tell you guys if someth- if something important was happening" Scar interuptted himself in order not to word and speak a lie, the specific words that came out of his mouth important/importantly placed
"Maybe you can talk to Grian again? He might be up to something if you aren't included or involved in all of this, if you're as clueless as we are"
The word clueless stung Scar to no end - he wasn't clueless at all, his friends thought they wall were on the same page when really Scar knew much more than he let on and appeared to
"I-...yeah I will" He originally had thought, planned to tell the absolute utmost truth, come clean - but when he even came remotely close to doing so he took a turn, a vernal backspace in his sentence, instead he promised to do as they- the other bamboozlers wanted, fully knowing he wouldn't and instead claim he just so happened to forget.