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(after wynonna has checked out doc's humanness with her own eyes and hands she makes her way back to the suite, not even bothering to knock before she lets herself into waverly's room -- she really should what with nicole being there now but it wouldn't be the first time she walked in on them.

anyways. wynonna plops herself down next to her sister on the bed.)

So Doc's human again.

[Waverly doesn't seem flustered by Wynonna's appearance regardless, because the Earps are used to living in each other's pockets at this point. But one day, it's true, this likely will backfire on her, for better or worse.]

Yeah, he told me.

[She still honestly can't believe the means.]

He says I did it.

It's true. I mean at at least the human part.

(yes, she had to go see it for herself, nothing to examine about that.)

He told me you did it too. You must have leveled up pretty heavily.

[Waverly isn't necessarily surprised that Wynonna went to verify in person, but she's glad that she did. Whatever Wynonna needed to do to feel secure in that.]

Yeah, I must of. Something like that seems ... way above my paygrade right now.

Yeah. I get the feeling there are pieces of the story he isn't telling.

(not that she had dug deeply -- she had been distracted, to say the least.)

[She shakes her head.]

Then we need him to tell us in his own time. I asked him if there was anything I really needed to know and he said no.

[She glances back to her sister.]

At some point we have to start trusting him, Wynonna.

I trust him.

(at least....some of the time. trust has always been hard between her and doc, for reasons that lie on both sides.)

I wasn't saying that as a criticism. I didn't honestly ask. I was just -- I was just happy, honestly.

(doc becoming a vampire had been a huge blow and even if she had forgiven him for it...it was still a barrier between them, something that existed but they rarely acknowledged.)

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[She's never sure. Wynonna can be so suspicious and untrusting and while Waverly knows that Wynonna has good reasons for it, especially someone has to earn that trust.]

Just making sure.

[But she turns to her with a smile.]

And good. You should be happy. This is a happy thing.

(it doesn't help that doc has broken that trust so many times either. she knows he's trying and things are much better between them then they were months ago....but it's still hard to trust it.)

It is. (she returns the smile with a small one of her own.)

He seems happy about it too. It must of been something he wanted.

I'd hope so. This is me, I wouldn't want to do something he didn't want.

[Even if she doesn't know how she did it, there is at least that much.]

True. Consent is important to you.

(and him being human again is important to wynonna. when he chose to turn it felt like he was choosing immortality over her. over alice.)

[Waverly nods, because she knows how much damage him turning caused their relationship.]

So ... are things with you two good?

I think so?

(it's not like...they have explicitly talked about that because that would involve being an adult and wynonna isn't very good at that.)

They feel better then they have -- whatever new memories he has, they don't seem to have back-peddled the progress we were making.

Good. I'm glad.

[She would hate for it to have made things worse.]

Is that progress ... continuing to progress?

[She just wants to know if her sister is happy and if there is anything to know. Give her the gossip.]

I don't know?

(it feels like it is but it's also in a weird standstill at the same time.)

I don't think Doc is willing to risk endangering me or Ray until he knows for sure that the marriages aren't going to be maintained anymore

That's fair. And it seems like he and Ray care about each other a lot.

[It would make sense if Doc was making new connections.]

He could want to see how that plays out.

(that strikes a chord with wynonna -- not that she hasn't made plenty of her own connections but the idea that doc would willingly choose ray over her -- that bothers her.)

I don't think he likes Ray that way. I know what Doc likes. Ray's too nice. Too sweet.

[Waverly presses her lips together because she knows that that might not be true. But she doesn't know if this is one of the times where Wynonna needs to hear the hard truth or if she should be encouraged, so she doesn't disagree with her.]

Maybe. I haven't really talked to him about it.

(her voice is sharp, defensive even.)

So you're just what -- speculating?

(or maybe there's a part of wynonna that fears waverly could be right -- that doc is trying to be a better person, and he's been a better person...and might not want her anymore.)

[She holds up her hands in response because she's not trying to pick a fight with you, Wynonna. She's just trying to be fair to all parties.]

I'm just saying we don't really know anything about their relationship. But Ray cares enough about him to give him a means to survive. There might be more that we don't know.

[She reaches over to take her sister's hands.]

Look, you know I am all in your corner, always. I'm the biggest fan of Wynonna and Doc around! But ... he married him, Wynonna. It might not have come from nothing.

He didn't even know him when he married him! It was just the stupid chocolate.

(but maybe it was more. the only time she and doc have honestly talked about their other dalliances was when they were under the influence of that truth whiskey.)

Ray's a good guy, and they've had to make it work, I get that, but it's not -- it's not more than than that.

(she refuses to entertain the idea that it could be.)

Okay. Okay.

[She drops her hands and lets it go. It's not worth the fight when she doesn't have the actual answers.]

Forget I said anything.

Sorry.

(wynonna rubs her temple, looking up at the ceiling for a moment. she had come here because she was happy, and then she started yelling at waverly.)

I don't know why I snapped like that.

I know why.

[She gives her a bit of a look.]

You want to be the one Doc wants and you don't like the idea of having competition.

[Which she's not judging her for, being jealous, it's human. But Waverly also knows that Wynonna knows that too.]

It hasn't exactly been easy having him married to someone else. Again.

(even if they were on bad terms for most of doc's marriage to ray....the idea of him finding happiness with someone else, the idea always stings.)

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