[ACTION] sprawls out and gets comfortable in this post, IT'S BEEN SO LONNNNGatrumcanisDecember 20 2011, 14:37:52 UTC
[It's been long enough that Jack's been let out of the hospital, but Sirius still feels as if they're in there--only sometimes, only vaguely, a prickling at the back of his neck. It's not the hospital that he's feeling but more the way he felt while inside of it, the terrible skin-crawling depression of the place. Every time he starts to feel that, he does something distracting, he does something stupid.
There are times, even, when he's awake before Jack. It's not awake in the sense that he never went to sleep, either, not the way it used to be. He wakes up in the dead of night, just to be sure that Jack is all right, and then he isn't able to fall back asleep again. He just lays staring up at the dark ceiling.
This morning is different. This morning, he joins Jack wherever he is in the firehouse, Yorick bundled in his arms. The dog is clearly unhappy, and clearly wary about being carried, but Sirius is ignoring him.]
Oi. Jack. Look.
[And the reason for Yorick's uncomfortable expression becomes obvious nearly immediately. He's
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[He glances out to the yard, where Yorick is still flopping around. When he notices Jack looking at him, he races over to them both, yapping eagerly. Jack picks him up, settling him in his lap with some effort.]
There are times, even, when he's awake before Jack. It's not awake in the sense that he never went to sleep, either, not the way it used to be. He wakes up in the dead of night, just to be sure that Jack is all right, and then he isn't able to fall back asleep again. He just lays staring up at the dark ceiling.
This morning is different. This morning, he joins Jack wherever he is in the firehouse, Yorick bundled in his arms. The dog is clearly unhappy, and clearly wary about being carried, but Sirius is ignoring him.]
Oi. Jack. Look.
[And the reason for Yorick's uncomfortable expression becomes obvious nearly immediately. He's ( ... )
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[He glances out to the yard, where Yorick is still flopping around. When he notices Jack looking at him, he races over to them both, yapping eagerly. Jack picks him up, settling him in his lap with some effort.]
What, even me, you think I'd do that?
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