Maybe an orange sort of glow precedes him, or it's just a trick of the light.
Either way, there's an Adam in the Nexus. He's doubled over, pale, shaking. His arms clutch his stomach, his head, and he stumbles to a couch to collapse onto it.
Perhaps the lights in the Nexus are on the fritz, because there's - shadows, it must be, flickering over Adam's
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I suppose... with Mary..."
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He opens his eyes and raises his head slowly, offering Tosh a weak smile.
"Mary?" he presses gently, patting the cushion next to him with a flickering hand.
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Her, Tommy, Owen."
She sits down next to him. Baaaad Tosh.
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"Not always, Toshiko," he says softly, slipping a hand around the back of her neck.
After Mary, he picks her up on the Plass and takes her back to her flat. He clears away the reminders - the sheets with Mary's scent, the stubs of cigarettes on the counter. He holds Tosh, listens, lets her cry - and stays.
After Tommy, they repeat the process. He clears away the sheets, turns off the news - the war footage - and holds Tosh while she cries. And stays.
Every night that Tosh needs him, Adam's there. We were going to have a drink, remember? He banishes her thoughts of Owen and for once in Tosh's life, she has someone who stays with her.God, he'd love to push himself into her memories, love to have her on top of him on this couch, right now. The sex isn't nearly as gratifying as the rush of energy he ( ... )
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Great, now he has a conversation to continue. "So you're a scientist now?"
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By the way, Adam ... Jackson is a stick of a teenage boy, around seventeen, dressed in white-and-khaki attire and boots that still trail sand after two weeks in the Nexus. His goggles are now longer dusty, though, and are now perpetually pushed up into his sun-bleached hair, as there are quite a few less sandstorms in the Nexus as on Boeshane.
Oh, he has absolutely no idea what he's in for.
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...oh. Oh. Adam has to hold back his grin. Boy from Boeshane. So nice to see you in person.
"I can see how it would be confusing. Here, come sit," he suggests, with a carefully-placed shy smile. "How did you celebrate?"
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Jackson accepts the invitation, because he's just a little bit gullible, coming from a backwater colony, and he genuinely believes the shy smile. "We built a bonfire on the beach and dad set off fireworks. Mom got a cake. A real cake, not protein rations with sugar frosting, and we stayed out until Gray fell asleep on my shoulder."
Oh. He's made himself sad. Jackson looks away and tries to smile, to keep from thinking about worse memories.
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((Oh god pleasssssse can I? It's... a character study! An experiment!))
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"A good memory? When Jack came back and all of us went out to celebrate his return," Ianto says smiling at the memory.
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"Yeah? Where had this 'Jack' been?"
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"Oh, dear. I hope the Doctor managed to fix him?"
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