[Listen...if she didn't pick up on the fact that he has some really serious issues with emotional expression, there's just no hope for her. And her death just made that about ten times worse. When you've never felt grief before, you're woefully unprepared to deal with it. Especially when you have the tendency to feel emotions at a good three times the capacity a normal person should. This is hardly the first time he's laughed at a completely inappropriate time.]
[Hopefully it WILL be the last time though because dear lord...]
[In any event, he has people like Hinata and Astrid and Poland and Urashima and Bill. People who all have their own ways of helping, even if some of those methods are a little questionable. And he has Alisha too, in a way. She's not as gone as she should be, and he's thankful for that, even if he's terrified they're gonna fuck this up and lose the ghosts forever. He'll get all the pieces back together, eventually. He just needs time.]
I am glad you agree...even if you don't really want to. [His lips twitch into a knowing sort of smirk for a moment. That's what that pause meant, right? But then they relax back into something more subdued.] And I am glad...you're here, as well. Now that that other matter is out of the way, I think I can say that with certainty now.
[A small, lingering part of him still kind of wishes she hadn't but he is IGNORING that part because literally nobody asked for your input right now, left brain. Take a break for once.]
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[Hopefully it WILL be the last time though because dear lord...]
[In any event, he has people like Hinata and Astrid and Poland and Urashima and Bill. People who all have their own ways of helping, even if some of those methods are a little questionable. And he has Alisha too, in a way. She's not as gone as she should be, and he's thankful for that, even if he's terrified they're gonna fuck this up and lose the ghosts forever. He'll get all the pieces back together, eventually. He just needs time.]
I am glad you agree...even if you don't really want to. [His lips twitch into a knowing sort of smirk for a moment. That's what that pause meant, right? But then they relax back into something more subdued.] And I am glad...you're here, as well. Now that that other matter is out of the way, I think I can say that with certainty now.
[A small, lingering part of him still kind of wishes she hadn't but he is IGNORING that part because literally nobody asked for your input right now, left brain. Take a break for once.]
...I've missed you.