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[onlyoneof]

Falalala~

Comments

[skepticalities]

Hmm?

[onlyoneof]

I don't think very far ahead. So what do I want when? A week? A month?

[skepticalities]

Right now.

[onlyoneof]

I'd like to pretend that the past day or two never happened.

[skepticalities]

And next week?

[onlyoneof]

I want to pirate the new 007 movie. It should be out by then.

[skepticalities]

It's out now. And next month?

[onlyoneof]

I thought we'd go to Hartford to visit Robert's family. Maybe spend the night there and come back?

[skepticalities]

. . . and next year?

[onlyoneof]

I can't afford to think that far ahead.

[skepticalities]

If you could, though?

[onlyoneof]

I'd really like to not have to save the world. Settle down, get a 9 to 5 job. Start a family? But that's not in the cards for me, we both know that.

[skepticalities]

. . . our problem is communication. Both ways.

[onlyoneof]

I thought I was communicating.

[skepticalities]

Now you are. Which is great.

[onlyoneof]

... what?

What do you want?

[skepticalities]

I want a family.

[onlyoneof]

I'm disappearing four years after we get back.

[skepticalities]

But you asked me what I wanted.

[onlyoneof]

I can't give you what you want.

[skepticalities]

. . .

Then that's it?

[onlyoneof]

I guess.

I can move out into one of the empty rooms or into the workshop.

[skepticalities]

I don't want you to go.

[onlyoneof]

I don't want to go either, but... I'm not gonna be able to give you what you want.

[skepticalities]

[pauses, then shakes his head.]

Listen. It's . . . you know my thoughts on fate by now. How things work. I'm not going to let my hands be tied by what could potentially happen in the future — and we've had this discussion before, about what's potential and inevitable and everything, so let's not rehash it. I won't let my decisions now be bound by it. This isn't about giving me what I want, it's about— trying in general with this. If you can't, then . . .

[lets his voice trail off, shrugging a bit.]

I don't know. It's your choice. But I hate being bound by this.