"Only half?" he teases in response, though mostly trying to buy for time as he tries to come up with a way to properly acknowledge her apology. There's no need it for, at least he wouldn't say there is; whether Joel agrees is something else altogether, but April isn't apologizing to Joel right now, she's apologizing to him. Whatever she'd done while under the spell, he can't hold against her because it's nothing like anything she's ever done to him outside of that little fairytale world.
She makes his blush terribly when she makes flirty comments, yes, but even Spencer knows that she does it because she finds it amusing. Even that doesn't come off as malicious, though, and while she always seems to succeed in making him go red, she hasn't ever crossed any lines with him. In this world, her flirting isn't a way to manipulate him because he thinks she more than understands that there's nothing to manipulate. There's absolutely nobody in this world that could hold a candle to his husband, nobody who could tempt him to stray or wonder for even a second what if, so April really gains nothing by doing it except, perhaps, a laugh or two.
"If it makes you feel better, I'll tell you that your apology is accepted," he finally says, shrugging a shoulder because he's still unwilling to let her think that he's in any way upset with her. He's not, no matter how betrayed he'd felt at the time, and he doesn't know how to explain why but that's just the way it is. Maybe it's because he and Joel seem to be some of the few who'd walked away from that spell with a truly happy ending.
"Anyway, you were clearly a rubbish siren in that world because Joel broke out of your hold on him almost instantly." He grins widely. "Power of love and all that, I suppose."
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She makes his blush terribly when she makes flirty comments, yes, but even Spencer knows that she does it because she finds it amusing. Even that doesn't come off as malicious, though, and while she always seems to succeed in making him go red, she hasn't ever crossed any lines with him. In this world, her flirting isn't a way to manipulate him because he thinks she more than understands that there's nothing to manipulate. There's absolutely nobody in this world that could hold a candle to his husband, nobody who could tempt him to stray or wonder for even a second what if, so April really gains nothing by doing it except, perhaps, a laugh or two.
"If it makes you feel better, I'll tell you that your apology is accepted," he finally says, shrugging a shoulder because he's still unwilling to let her think that he's in any way upset with her. He's not, no matter how betrayed he'd felt at the time, and he doesn't know how to explain why but that's just the way it is. Maybe it's because he and Joel seem to be some of the few who'd walked away from that spell with a truly happy ending.
"Anyway, you were clearly a rubbish siren in that world because Joel broke out of your hold on him almost instantly." He grins widely. "Power of love and all that, I suppose."