I'm a sucker for you

[Jack Ripley]

How do we know that though?
I mean how do we know
he's not a prince?

I know
he killed those people
and I want him brought to justice too
believe me...

but not if it means losing you

[Brayden Smith]

I'm an only child. He can't be another prince and even if he's royal somehow, I'm the real prince.

If we don't do something to.stop him, he'll come back. And he'll try to kill me again anyway so why not mount the offensive first? Maybe surprise him for once!

[Jack Ripley]

I'm just curious because I don't know how all this works but
say he's a bastard son of your family
and that makes him like, less powerful than you
I get that
but what if
he's a part of two royal families?
Like you know, say a princess from one of your houses romances a prince from another house
and they make a baby, even if it's not like official
what does it make the baby?

this is all really just hypothetical
kinda
based on some things he might have said to me when I was like sixteen and didn't know what the hell he was on about

[Brayden Smith]

He would be a prince but his powers would be diluted, wouldn't it? I'm still a pureblood prince.
I sound like a harry potter character...
But you know what I mean.

So what you're saying is, he's
my
half-brother or cousin or something?
He's related to me in some way?

[Jack Ripley]

Just a LITTLE bit.

So his dream walking wouldn't be as strong as yours
and his whatever he inherited from the other side wouldn't be as strong as THEIRS
but maybe he'd make a new strength
like
you know
scary fucking golems that attacked you and killed you :(

but yes, I think
he might be related to you, B

and I hope he's not related to me because that makes his whole obsession
uhhh that much weirder

[Brayden Smith]

Oh god
He could be the bridge between our two houses?

...do you think that's what
I mean if someone didn't want our houses to unite, they would've tried to keep us apart...

every time we
got together

if someone

...
got rid of one of us

[Jack Ripley]

Yeah...
A bridge...

And it's always us

I didn't meet you until now
but before, I knew you when you were young

and you

it's always you
why is it always you?

[Brayden Smith]

Probably because I'm

the least dangerous

the easiest to get rid of

[Jack Ripley]

Really?

I don't think that's it.
Because THIS time, I could definitely have been killed off before we ever even met

But I wasn't.
But I could have been.
Should have been

[Brayden Smith]

That's because you're not meant to die, silly

You could have so many times but you didn't
It's not your fate

Maybe that night on the ridge was my time and somehow
I didn't

[Jack Ripley]

You're not either, Brayden.
You're not meant to die so young

[Brayden Smith]

Well I certainly don't want to die!
But if I have to I would rather be doing the right thing than waiting for someone to come get me!

[Jack Ripley]

And this is the reason it's always you
You have to
stop

[Brayden Smith]

And wait for him to come kill me?
Or wait for him to get his hands on you again?

I've waited my whole life Jack
I've sat back and waited and

Let me fight for you

[Jack Ripley]

But you know how it ends