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[notfaking_it]

The first time Lily sees her, she thinks she might be imagining things.

It's not impossible, she knows, but if Faye were in Darrow, she can't see why she wouldn't have run into her before. Romeo and Juliet is opening next week and Lily's face is plastered on the dance hall as well as half the posters in the train station and on the street. She's not exactly inconspicuous lately and although she doesn't get stopped on the street, if someone who knew her were to show up, they'd be hard pressed to miss her.

The second time she catches sight of her is on the street near the train station. For a moment, Lily simply watches her, trying to make sure it's really Faye, then she hurries across the street to catch up with her.

"Hey!" she calls, her voice friendly, not quite able to believe it's her. That she's here. She's been lucky, really, her friends have turned up and she's made new ones, but besides Eden and Eames, there's no one else here who really knows her.

Not like Faye.

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[notfaking_it]

"I know," Lily answers. It's part of why she'd always considered her friendship with Faye to be a true friendship, the sort that doesn't always come along, no matter how well she might get along with a person. The two of them could very well have ended up disliking each other, struggling to keep their own power, but it hadn't happened that way at all.

She's feeling unsteady, which she doesn't like, confused and unsure of herself. "Look, I'm going to take off," she says, pointing back over her shoulder. "I need..." But she doesn't know what she needs, which is what makes everything more difficult. "I'll see you."

She hopes that's true. As strange as she feels right now, as unsettled and hurt, she doesn't want to not see Faye ever again. That would be worse, somehow, an insult to the opportunity she's been given.

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She considers stopping Lily. She really does. Because there's so much that hangs in the balance as Lily heads in the other direction, too much known about Faye that leaves her uneasy just thinking about it. But Faye doesn't know what she'd say. Doesn't know what she'd do. Keep Lily chained to herself?

That's not an option, either, because staying at Faye's side for too long is how all those secrets start spilling out to begin with. Pressing hers lips together, she watches Lily start taking a few steps.

"See you," she says, eyes narrowed as she watches Lily retreat.