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If he had to tell the truth, there's something about running guns that he likes. It's simple. It's clear. It's not clean, but clean was never much of a priority with him and just because he's slightly less of an asshole than he used to be, that's no reason to suppose he might go legit ( Read more... ) -
Whose house are you haunting?
Moving in together. It should feel bizarre, and it does, a little, but not that much. Not as much as it would have months ago. And he knows why: despite the upheaval, despite the problems, despite the changes that he's not even sure how to quantify, they've been moving toward a future and they still are now ( Read more... ) -
And when you come for me some night...
He's not sure how long he's up there. It's all night up there, falling around the bright sphere of Miranda and staring down at it from his chair. He knows he's made a mistake, but it all seems like a mistake now. Getting clean. Not killing Hobbes when he had the chance to do it. Staying alive ( Read more... ) -
Don't wait up, she said...
He hadn't immediately assumed the worst when he'd come home to an empty bed. That had taken another hour, and the discovery of an equally empty Persephone. For the next hour or so after that he'd paced, trying to decide between waiting and going out to look, trying to tell himself that the obvious thing must be the truth; Neil had taken pity on ( Read more... ) -
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He leaves Neil sleeping. He hasn't slept much himself. He's tried, rolling over and then over again, slinging an arm around Neil's waist and then turning away, over and over seeing the blood shockingly red on Neil's skin, the thrill of it and then Hobbes hurling him away ( Read more... ) -
This ship is taking me far away...
It shouldn't be blacker out here, but somehow it is. There's no meaningful difference in terms of how far away all the stars are, but it's like there's less of them and they're colder. The sun is further away, shrunk to a small, lonely ball of light, giving only a little light and no warmth to speak of to the few planetoids that whirl through the ( Read more... )
