[ Nothing more jarring than wanting to have missed Kerry this whole time. The truth is colder, and it's uncomfortable to reconcile how he could've carried on without Kerry and not missed him at all. All the longing and aching is there now, a deeply-rooted desire to just be close.
Lying in the bed, his gaze fixes on Kerry as he tugs sheets this way and that, adjusts the pillows so they're comfortable. In the end, he just holds out his arm, opens up the space at his side for Kerry to occupy. It's exactly where he belongs, where V needs him. It feels like an inadequate consolation even as the words roll off his tongue, but: ]
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Date: 2021-06-22 11:01 am (UTC)Lying in the bed, his gaze fixes on Kerry as he tugs sheets this way and that, adjusts the pillows so they're comfortable. In the end, he just holds out his arm, opens up the space at his side for Kerry to occupy. It's exactly where he belongs, where V needs him. It feels like an inadequate consolation even as the words roll off his tongue, but: ]
'm here now. All of me.