"Maybe." He closed his eyes, fingers digging into the snow under his hands as he tried to combat the need to submit to the seconds of free-fall he'd gotten to know so closely over the course of the last few hours. "I'm just ... I should have seen this coming. The things I care about die. Even before I took your ability." Chandra, who even after sixty-some years, he had refused to name. His mother. Mohinder. Everyone.
"I told Mohinder that, once, when we ... " First entered their relationship? That sounded cheap. First recognized their connection? Not deep enough. And so on and so forth, until he ran out of ways to try and say it. He hoped Adam got the hint.
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Date: 2008-09-03 12:26 am (UTC)"I told Mohinder that, once, when we ... " First entered their relationship? That sounded cheap. First recognized their connection? Not deep enough. And so on and so forth, until he ran out of ways to try and say it. He hoped Adam got the hint.