[ Maybe they should have. Maybe Mike should've pushed back a little harder in the beginning for more stolen time with Frank. It's all muddy still. There's still so much missing but this---this feels like a real start in changing that. There's a draw between them anyone would notice. ]
[The night they went out for Italian they talked about baseball and made promises to go to a game. The promise to stay here, to be with one another is far heavier and more important. Frank smiles. God did he think he'd ever smile again this much too? Fingers keep on clasping to Mike's like it is a lifeline to the past and future all at once.]
Good. There's room for you.
[There had been from the start. Mike stepped on into the emptiness and filled the space. Telling him as much feels like adding on pressure to whatever feelings are coming alive again. They have to take this slow. For his brain and for the hope.
Rain keeps falling. They can't get any more soaked than they are now.]
[ He remembers snippets of conversation. It's like hearing things underwater when he tries to dredge the memories up. They'll come back. They have to. He moves closer to Frank, one hand still holding on to his, and reaches up to trail fingers along his jaw with the other. ]
Good thing you don't give up easy.
[ Neither did Matt just in a different way. Mike wouldn't be here otherwise, that's for certain. Time will bring the rest of Mike with it. They have to hope for it at least. ]
[Echoes of sentiment coming on back through. Frank tilts his face into that touch. His mouth moves and he wants to lean on in, to brush his mouth against Mike's to kiss in the rain as they had that night on the way back to the car.
Would it be too soon? Would it be fair?]
I'm with you every step of the way.
[To...what to call it? Recovery? The future? Mike is coming back in flashes, would he be himself or a merged, revised version? Would this new man have any places in his heart for a man like Frank Castle?]</small
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calltoaction) wrote2019-09-13 04:07 pm
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I want to stay with you.
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Good. There's room for you.
[There had been from the start. Mike stepped on into the emptiness and filled the space. Telling him as much feels like adding on pressure to whatever feelings are coming alive again. They have to take this slow. For his brain and for the hope.
Rain keeps falling. They can't get any more soaked than they are now.]
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Good thing you don't give up easy.
[ Neither did Matt just in a different way. Mike wouldn't be here otherwise, that's for certain. Time will bring the rest of Mike with it. They have to hope for it at least. ]
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[Echoes of sentiment coming on back through. Frank tilts his face into that touch. His mouth moves and he wants to lean on in, to brush his mouth against Mike's to kiss in the rain as they had that night on the way back to the car.
Would it be too soon? Would it be fair?]
I'm with you every step of the way.
[To...what to call it? Recovery? The future? Mike is coming back in flashes, would he be himself or a merged, revised version? Would this new man have any places in his heart for a man like Frank Castle?]</small