theonlyresponse: (in times of trouble)
flying echolocating mammal man ([personal profile] theonlyresponse) wrote in [personal profile] crossestheline 2013-06-01 01:42 am (UTC)

[He returns the greeting, wearily.]

Hey.

[His posture shifts, becomes less tense, palms facing Jason. This boy, he could never lie to, even when he was a child. Jason knew him. Jason understood his anger too well.

He is tempted, to put the veneer back up, to say it was survivable, but even he has been beaten down, exhausted, and talking to Barbara did not make it any better. There was no longer any point pretending everything was fine. He'd done for so many years after his son died, and he was trying to break out of it, at least to his nearest and dearest.]


I don't know what I would have done, if you hadn't come back from there.

[There is a deep, lasting grief beneath the moderated, controlled tone he employs.]

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