Compartmentalizing her life is a habit, and in some ways, necessary; she's not going to invite Jae and Deacon on the same outings, that would be insane. But Ivan is- different, Ivan is supposed to be hers, he is supposed to be a part of her life and all of the boxes she keeps it in, even if she doesn't keep him in all of them. She tries, now and then, to more thoroughly integrate - it's just that she's never known exactly how, and her efforts have had mixed success.

This feels successful, though, this evening, and she's thinking again about their living situation, even if she isn't sure about how or when or if to bring it up. If she should, when Gomez Addams is not exactly one of his role models, but- well, she's all right with that, she's just not sure how to reconcile everything. It's complicated- less complicated is how certain she is sometimes that he does, in fact, care about her. Want her, want her to be here, enough to make an effort.

“Tell me some of the others,” she says, after a moment, because she can.