"That sounds awesome," agrees Zeus. "I mean, if we're not treating me as though I'm drunk off my ass on consent-warping magic, or anything."

"You kind of are, but you're not going to not be," says Harley. "So you might as well - not be. You know?"

"Not gonna ask Her Highness to - fix me?" asks Zeus wryly.

"I don't know if that can even happen," he says, "and I don't think you'd want her to, so - no? Unless you do want her to. Or unless we were going to turn into some kind of... big, huge, horrible disaster, like - oh shit." He blinks up at Zeus, realization dawning. "Oh, shit, I can't break my arm again or anything, can I, you'd explode."

"...Not... literally?" says Zeus, wincing. "But - but that sounds really, really bad - like, even though I know how you are about it and I know you're immortal it just -" He bites his lip and shuts his eyes and whines. "And - also Pamela's not gonna be able to hit you anymore."

"Awwwwww, man," says Harley, and he climbs up into Zeus's lap and hugs him. "Can we fix that? I hope we can fix that, I don't want you to be sad like this all the time!"

Zeus hugs him, snuggly-like, tucking his face in against Harley's neck. "The thing with Pam and the thing with me are separate things. I dunno. Not even Jake could get Pam to hit you now, not with all the alpha voice in the world... I don't think anybody's tried the other thing."

"I am mildly sad that Pam can't hit me anymore but it's not a life-changer," says Harley. "The other thing is actually a problem."

"'m sorry," mumbles Zeus. "I know how you are, I just - can't - stand to think about it."

"Then don't think about it," says Harley. "And we'll try to fix it." He winces. "Is it okay if we try to fix it?"

"You need it fixed, right?" says Zeus. This is a complete answer to Harley's question.

Zeus nods, just a little, shifting his head where he's put it on Harley's shoulder.

Harley snuggles him.

Snuggles! Snuggles with imprint: best thing.

[Elsie?] he says.

[Yes?]

[Zeus imprinted on me.]

[...Yeeees. Mostly. I am okay in the short term. In the long term - you know that thing where wolves can't stand their imprints getting hurt? We need to do something about that. I mean, if it's possible, I don't know, but - if it's not possible then I really, really don't know what to do.]

[It... has not been tried,] says Elspeth. [Imprinting isn't like vampire mating in that way. I'll speak to Mama and Jake about a wish design. We'll see what we can do. Is Zeus on board with the change?]

[Quote, "You need it fixed, right?", end quote.]

[Yes, I suppose I should've expected that,] sighs Elspeth. [We'll have something to try soon. Do you or Zeus need anything else?]

[Nah, we're good. Thanks.]