More of a segue into chapter 3. Just enough to tease you until I update it!

The small crew of the Rampion continued their journey through space and their desperate plans to stop Levana. Thorne continued his only half-joking wooing of Wolf by calling him handsome and other gestures such as trying to grab whatever Wolf asked for at dinners to pass it to him first. Since Thorne was only recently blind, it was impressive that the results of these attempts were not always disastrous. Wolf rolled his eyes at most of the compliments and attempts at romantic gestures but smiled at some of them. Cinder noticed that Wolf was more likely to smile on the days where he had been sadly staring into space.

The facts that Thorne's not so suave attempts were making Wolf smile made Cinder not want to say anything, but there only so much of Cress poorly acting like everything was fine that she could take before she finally took Thorne aside.

"Thorne have you considered Cress' feelings during any of this? It's obvious she has a crush on you the size of Jupiter!"

Thorne sighed. "I thought she would be over me"

"Stars, you are clueless. Of course she still has feelings for you, she's not just going to turn them off because you reject her! Did you even clearly tell her that you don't want to be with er?"

"I mean, I told her she probably wasn't really in love with me." Thorne mumbled.

"Stars Thorne." Cinder said. "Well how do you feel about her?"

"I like Cress, she's great. But I know I really wouldn't be good for her."

"And Wolf?"

Throne shrugged. "I like him too."

"Since when?"

"I don't know. I just like him. He's interesting."

"Interesting?"

"No, not just interesting. He's..." Thorne blushed. "He's really. Something."

"Uh huh" Cinder raised her eyebrows. "You really have a way with words there captain."

"What can I say? It's a gift." Thorne sighed. "I'll try to be more thoughtful around Cress. I can usually tell when she's in a room. Not like mister silent."

"Okay, good." Said Cinder, her eyebrows knit. She'd thought that she would feel better after the conversation, but now she was just worried about two people getting their hearts broken.

The "crush the size of Jupiter" line is from the released quotes from Winter.