Owen just manages to stop himself from glancing at Omega in the rearview mirror, when Blue says such meaningful things about the importance of family. Her mate has never been quite sold on the idea, after all.

"Jeez, what are you doing talking to Gwen so much." Traitor.

But he shrugs anyway, over something he never gave much thought in the first place. "I don't know if I'd call it a crush. It was more like... a high school need to go after the girl because everybody else was trying to go after the same girl." Which sounds incredibly stupid even out loud, and Owen will be the first person to admit that that's exactly what it was. "I was an idiot in high school. Gwen met me in that stage of my life, it's a wonder she can stand me at all."

Then he looks over at Blue again, grinning confidentially. "Did she tell you she was a cute, shy little nerd? Straight out of a movie."