He's always seemed cool with you telling what to do before. I mean he gets the whole slayer thing -- which yes, it's complicated, but what's so new about that. You and Mr. Broodypants have always been complicated. It's old hat, or whatever.

[Give her a second.] Who wants to wear old hats? But hey, that's so not the point. The point is that the people who made that curse are far far away. And I'm not so sure it would work here and you and he might eventually make a deal with the deities to nip it in the bud anyway -- eventually.

It could happen. Like a sappy romance movie, it could happen.