[the_faery_queen]

im not being harsh on molly. im just saying that i don't think she loved fitz as much as he loved her, and i think it was need that drove her. he sacrified for molly, and remained true (ish) to the one he loved. molly didn't. she didn't stay celibite, as patience did. and while kettricken may have found it hard to find other people of her station, molly would have found it hard to find someone willing to take on her, and another man's child. but rather than be alone, the way kettricken chose to be, because she couldn't have who she wanted. molly settled for the first guy that came along. and that's because, in my mind, need drove her more than love. and i think molly is more to blame be4cause burrich wouldn't have made a move on her. nothing would have happned unless she instigated it. im not saying i blame her. im not saying it was a bad thing that she found someone else, im just syaing she didn't love fitz as much as he did her. but she NEEDED him. and she needed burrich. i think need drives her and clouds her feelings. kettirkcne had also lost, remember. her husband, her brother (years before granted) and the first child she was pregnant with, and fitz had lost too. molly! and burrich, and his home and his life, what it had been. yet they didn't take that need, or their loss, otu on each other. but molly and burrich did, because molly needed a person with her far more than kettricken, fitz or patience did and i think burrich agreed because he thought it was the best way to look after her, or because he sensed that need. i think they had feelings for each other, but they were born out of need, and that's what i think drives molly all the way through. not love for loves sake. but love out of need for not being alone.