#gg 2.07

[pynkhues]

Love reading your Brio thoughts! For the OTP ask: 6, 8 and/or 12 Thanks!

Thank you, anon! And thank you for sending these through 😊

6. What moment made each person first realize they were in love with the other?

I tend to think they both really rejected this idea that they were in love with each other for a long time, and that it was probably pretty close to the end of the series that they really owned it, but I do think 2.07 made the fact that they had deeper feelings for each other impossible to ignore.

As an episode, it delivers on so many fronts, but there are four moments of really palpable emotion that twists the knife in terms of the depth and cut of those feelings. It's Beth's outrage at Dean suggesting Rio took their daughter, one of the angriest moments we've ever seen her on the show, before immediately going to him, it's Rio's anger that she went into the house at all, and then it's him going into the house even though he knows Jane won't be there (just in case), and then when she's not, him taking her baby blanket, and Beth's reaction to unpacking it.

None of those moments have any justification outside of real feelings, outside of trust, outside of something that looks and feels a lot like love, and I think they both tried to ignore it in the aftermath, but when they look back - - yeah. That's the night.

8. What would they consider the most romantic thing that happened between them?

Answered here!

12. What would both say is their favorite memory of the other?

I think for Rio, it'll always be when Beth read him for filth when he tried to kill her the first time, just for the sheer record scratch of it, haha, and for Beth, I think it would probably be that moment in 2.08 before everything went to shit, where the sun caught his face just right and as he offered to take care of everything for her. (She would always have - will always - decline, needs to do this herself, but it doesn't stop the heart stutter that comes with the fact that she knows he could and that he would).

Ask me shippy questions!

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[gabrielllas]

beth + (not) saying rio’s name (but proving she knows him)

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[aliteralcat]

In the 2.07 opening montage you can really see Dean realize that they have four kids

[xstrawmari]

Rio dropping off the dubby in the mailbox after he said "who cares?"... right in the feels.

[pynkhues]

I know I've said this before too, but I genuinely think the moment with the dubby is the most romantic brio moment on the show. It's the only thing one of them has ever done for the other that isn't at least partially motivated by self-interest, and the fact that Rio doesn't do it in-person, that he never mentions it again, that it's offered just as it is and not used as anything more than that - that it gets to simply be the return of something that's precious to her daughter - it's just !!!

Peak romance, honestly.

[pynkhues]

I shall simply never recover from Beth's raw outrage when she says: "Are you suggesting he took our child?"

[pynkhues]

I do wonder about how Rio got the dubby. Like do you think he gave them a speech about how that’s his partner and disrespecting her is disrespecting him? Or did he just go in and take it while staring them down? Did he trash the house or did they never even know he got the dubby back?

Anon, this is a question that lived so rent-free in my head after the ep aired that I actually wrote a fic about it!

I do think there was a confrontation of some sort, but I imagine Rio was pretty cagey about the details of who Beth was. After all, Rio doesn't seem to like to give anyone more information than they need, and the fact that he'd clearly told Beth to never go into the houses given their fight, I don't think he'd been frank with anyone prior to the banker ep in s4 about Beth's involvement, and even that seemed purposefully vague.

But yes! That fic is pretty much how I imagine it went down :-)