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Date: 2013-04-09 06:48 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
[Taking the pipe from his mouth, she sighs again. The heirloom is turned over and over in her hands, passed between her fingers curiously.]

I'm guessing they're not science museums.

Date: 2013-04-09 06:55 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
Does she ever talk about me?

[Cradling the pipe in both hands, she holds it near her chin, inhaling the faint aroma of long-gone tobacco.]

Date: 2013-04-09 07:00 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
Good.

[It weighs on her for a moment, but Jacob would do what was best for Miranda, even if that meant not mentioning her at all.

She turns the pipe over once more before handing it back to him.]

Date: 2013-04-09 01:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
She always enjoyed learning new things.

[Finally, she realizes she's started pulling at her hair again, and lets her hands rest on her lap. One is then moved to Jacob's knee. Again, as the first day, they're two grieving parents. Only this time they have something real to grieve. Their own failure, or perhaps success, depending upon how you view the world.]

Date: 2013-04-10 03:39 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
I can only hope--

[He pulls her closer and she sighs, shuddering before she finally, finally lets herself process everything. John's words. Revelations about Jacob, about Miranda, about humanity itself. And she still doesn't know what to do but to clutch at the cloth of Jacob's pants and move in just a little closer.

She can't be alone. She's not ready to be alone, even if she tells herself she should be, should be tough, shouldn't let Jacob see her break any more than she already has.

Biting her tongue, she turns her head toward him and presses her cheek to his shoulder.]

Date: 2013-04-10 04:06 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
[Don't? She could take that so many ways.

Don't chastise yourself.

Don't blame yourself.

Don't break.


All are true. And all of them make her want to shrivel up in a very tiny, dark place for the rest of time. This is more than she was ever prepared for, more than she ever knew she couldn't bear.

Another brief shake, and she puts her far arm awkwardly around him, hooking fingers gently over his hip as she presses her eyes against the fabric of his clothing.]


Please stay.

Date: 2013-04-10 04:40 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
[She glances down at his hand, then quietly gasps.]

Jacob, your hand...

[Now she's pulling herself back together and reaching for his hand, examining it carefully.]

Date: 2013-04-10 04:56 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
[She touches the edges of his wounds, still looking them over.]

If we find some gauze and some alcohol, I can take care of this.

[But she lets him hold her closer, eventually relenting and releasing his hand.]

Date: 2013-04-10 05:00 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
You shouldn't have done it.

[Ignoring the wounds, she rests a hand over his. Part of her wishes she was broken, too. She only hurts on the inside, and that's almost intolerable.]

Date: 2013-04-10 05:04 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
Jacob.

[Now she squeezes his hand, and strokes his wrist with her thumb.]

We're both going to make it through this.

Date: 2013-04-10 05:11 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] coffeebeforescience
[And she's caving in slowly, very slowly. There are going to be nightmares tonight, and for nights after, of everyone she knows and cares for dying. And she's going to wake up in the morning and pretend that she's fine.

She'll have Jacob, and that somehow makes it infinitely more tolerable.]


You're right.

And we have that chance. I know we've spoken of it before, a second chance. If I can... If I could do everything in my past again, I don't know that I'd change anything. But as for my future, as long as you're here, you are a part of it.

Date: 2013-04-10 05:34 am (UTC)
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[In all honesty, it's likely neither of them will sleep until they're too exhausted to stay awake. Perhaps they'll simply lay there and stare at their new unfamiliar ceiling. But they can talk about each other, and Miranda, maybe even about the Spartans, and get some closure in their own ways and times.]

No. I didn't think I was. You've always been the better of the two of us.

[It's an echo of something she's said recently, and she knows that it's still true. Always will be.]

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