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[godwinner]

((a catch-all for current threads, since the workaround I'm currently using for my journal is really the only one that's working for me.))

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[godwinner]

[from here]

Are you.

[ but this is distracted -- he's looking at Charles's hands ]

[godwinner]

Without the mistletoe, I think.

[mind_over_metal]

It suits you.

*pauses, not initiating a change in subject just yet but pretty obviously starting to feel the rest of the world creeping back in against the two of them*

[godwinner]

[ his expression doesn't close off, exactly, because he is not a man capable of being impassive, but it does harden, his fingers suddenly very still between Charles's own ]

[mind_over_metal]

Erik... Neither of us is the type to run away from what he has to do, and it's doubtful that we could even if we wanted to.

[godwinner]

I'm well aware of that.

[mind_over_metal]

*nods*

So...

...god, how to even start.

[godwinner]

Hell if I know.

[mind_over_metal]

I'm not heading into another two weeks or however long of not speaking. It's not something that I want, and it's not something that you want, either.

[godwinner]

I wouldn't even be speaking to you now if it weren't for this. [ holds up the hat ]

[mind_over_metal]

I'm well aware of that. But that did happen. And here we are. Aren't you the one who's taken me to task for supposedly pretending like things hadn't happened?

[godwinner]

I'm not denying anything. But you think good things make a difference when they just don't, Charles.

[mind_over_metal]

*frustrated anger straining his voice even as his hand tightens around Erik's like a plea*

They won't if you won't let them.

[godwinner]

Why. How deep into this am I supposed to get, exactly? We progress and then we go home and what, what.

[mind_over_metal]

I don't know. I don't know! But we aren't there now, what we have is the opportunity to figure out what we can make happen when we do go back. Erik, you know what they've been thinking nearly as much as I do, about us, what's happened, what other possibilities there are, and I am not going to let myself get trapped by my own weaknesses and I'll be damned if I let that happen to you either!

[godwinner]

[ his gaze sharp ]

And what are your weaknesses, Charles?