And maybe they shouldn't be having this conversation now. Not while his mind drifts, hovering just on the edge of sleep. Or maybe it's best, with the drugs and exhaustion making him honest, making him set aside his usual hang-ups and landmines.
Doesn't matter, really, since they are having it now. And he doesn't quite know any better, anyway. Anything to make Emma stay longer, anything to keep feeling these ripples of contentment and completion. ]
Dunno that I can stay in one spot.
[ Which is true enough. Faraday tended to drift. Never stayed anywhere long enough to grow roots – and that's been the truth of his life since he was a young man, fresh out of high school. He'll settle up somewhere, stick around for a few months before a sharp pang of wanderlust hits him – or maybe that's just the fear of getting complacent? Either way, that feeling hits him, and he packs up his sparse belongings, hops onto the next bus out of there. ]
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And maybe they shouldn't be having this conversation now. Not while his mind drifts, hovering just on the edge of sleep. Or maybe it's best, with the drugs and exhaustion making him honest, making him set aside his usual hang-ups and landmines.
Doesn't matter, really, since they are having it now. And he doesn't quite know any better, anyway. Anything to make Emma stay longer, anything to keep feeling these ripples of contentment and completion. ]
Dunno that I can stay in one spot.
[ Which is true enough. Faraday tended to drift. Never stayed anywhere long enough to grow roots – and that's been the truth of his life since he was a young man, fresh out of high school. He'll settle up somewhere, stick around for a few months before a sharp pang of wanderlust hits him – or maybe that's just the fear of getting complacent? Either way, that feeling hits him, and he packs up his sparse belongings, hops onto the next bus out of there. ]
Where's that leave us?