protocol: (► i wish that i knew the method swimming)
WASHINGTON. ([personal profile] protocol) wrote 2021-11-01 01:20 pm (UTC)

[ ah. north. of course this place would choose a memory like that to pull out into the open for people to see. he grimaces, in genuine sympathy, something that might surprise him later -- it probably helps that she's describing a dream about her brother and not about wash himself. that disgust, too, the way it's so obviously directed at herself. that's something he recognizes.

different kind of person might try to offer some platitude about how she shouldn't blame herself, about how it's all in the past, but wash -- doesn't. that memory, at least, is probably not one that he can really offer comfort to, at least not yet. he's clearly sympathetic, at least. ]


If anyone was going to hear you out, it'd be York. [ unlike wash himself, who did in fact just pull a gun on you. twice! but he's better about it now. promise.

and, well. he pauses, not quite meeting her eye, hesitating for a few moments before he finally looks back at her. ]


Look, I don't -- forget. Anymore. [ just. a vague gesture. he folds his arms across his chest, leaning his weight against one side of the doorframe, breaking eye contact again to look off in some random corner of south's apartment behind her. ] And whenever I sleep, nine times out of ten my mind goes back to the same place.

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