incelligent: by Sani_Caranza on plurk (69)
simon ratfink laurent 🐀 ([personal profile] incelligent) wrote in [community profile] meadowlarklogs 2021-03-10 07:52 pm (UTC)

[Oddly enough, Simon doesn't react to being referred to as a child.

In fact, he barely hears the word.

He isn't used to what people would deem as healthy apologies. Sure, he and Grace say they're sorry after fighting, and it usually ends in some kind of schoolyard promise to remain friends forever and together no matter what, but this is different, even if that doesn't register to the blond just yet.

It's a mature apology.
]

That's okay. It's kinda funny? Sometimes.

[Sincere. Uttered softly.]

I know I'm-

[Not normal. Difficult.

Unpleasant.
]

Not happy, uh, all the time. And, where I was, there were always things to do when I was feelin' this way, and-

[Note how he doesn't say home.]

Now I can't.

[He doesn't make eye contact, but there is a pause.]

You've had someone do this to you... Before?

The whole operation thing?

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