[ He actively relaxes at the touch, all the way up to the edges of his glasses and even then he just sort of frowns in a 'what are you doing' mildly uncomfortable expression.
...One other person in existence who wouldn't get a really nasty response to that, and they're not in Duplicity. ]
I should have - and it should probably have been the end of our marriage. Or, I guess based on what the future seems to hold opened it. Which might have given us enough space to save it.
[ He doesn't sound... terribly upset, actually, which is saying something. In truth, he's not - about any of it. He loves her. He will always love her. He felt guilty as fuck about a lot of things involving Emma.
But he doesn't for one second regret her.
Hell, he has more regrets about things he didn't do - and Jean didn't do than what they did.
He is also pointedly, carefully, not thinking much about what came before that. Not beyond 'not the same'. It's been a long time. He will still lose his shit if that's pushed too hard. ]
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...One other person in existence who wouldn't get a really nasty response to that, and they're not in Duplicity. ]
I should have - and it should probably have been the end of our marriage. Or, I guess based on what the future seems to hold opened it. Which might have given us enough space to save it.
[ He doesn't sound... terribly upset, actually, which is saying something. In truth, he's not - about any of it. He loves her. He will always love her. He felt guilty as fuck about a lot of things involving Emma.
But he doesn't for one second regret her.
Hell, he has more regrets about things he didn't do - and Jean didn't do than what they did.
He is also pointedly, carefully, not thinking much about what came before that. Not beyond 'not the same'. It's been a long time. He will still lose his shit if that's pushed too hard. ]