"Oh, gone again," she admitted with an off-hand gesture that didn't really echo into her bones but if she kept trying, it would grow to habit one day.
Rose took a long sip of her tea -- made perfectly. As if he'd ever forgotten. "You did remember," she murmured, redundantly, hiding the faint flare of embarrassment in her sip.
Then, offhand, further to an earlier comment of his: "We were never really lovers." She didn't fully believe that any more than he did, but saying it, making the argument, might help with his sense that she was just a hallucinations. "Although not for want of trying."
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Date: 2008-01-05 07:37 am (UTC)Rose took a long sip of her tea -- made perfectly. As if he'd ever forgotten. "You did remember," she murmured, redundantly, hiding the faint flare of embarrassment in her sip.
Then, offhand, further to an earlier comment of his: "We were never really lovers." She didn't fully believe that any more than he did, but saying it, making the argument, might help with his sense that she was just a hallucinations. "Although not for want of trying."