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Jan. 4th, 2009 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bannion_sightThey'd stayed up late that night. Enough so that Kim overslept a little the next morning, and had to scramble to have the clinic open at nine.
(There'd been time for coffee, of course, and even a bit of chatter over breakfast, but without even discussing it, both of them had silently agreed to leave any significant conversations for later.)
But now she's headed home again, and Kim finds that she's smiling to herself as she walks up the path toward the house.
(There'd been time for coffee, of course, and even a bit of chatter over breakfast, but without even discussing it, both of them had silently agreed to leave any significant conversations for later.)
But now she's headed home again, and Kim finds that she's smiling to herself as she walks up the path toward the house.
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Date: 2009-01-07 05:12 am (UTC)Dave takes a breath.
"I am."
And that's a stupid, stupid thing to think about changing.
(They don't even have mayonnaise here, he thinks, stupidly. Hasn't he handled enough culture shock for one lifetime? For twenty?
All the same.)
"And -" He becomes aware that she's searching for his eyes, and raises his gaze, just a little, to meet hers. "You're right. About all of that. The sensible thing would probably be to set it aside as a great one-time thing, like Maidalaidan or something, and call it a day, but -
"Hell," (he knew meeting her eyes was a bad idea!) "sometimes it is not easy to be sensible."
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Date: 2009-01-09 06:22 am (UTC)"-- do you want to? Be sensible, I mean?"
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Date: 2009-01-11 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 05:12 am (UTC)"Really?"
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Date: 2009-01-11 05:19 am (UTC)Dave doesn't think anyone could help but beam ridiculously back, at that smile.
(Dave is, of course, biased.)
"I guess this would be my payback for claiming to be the sensible one, yesterday."
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Date: 2009-01-11 05:27 am (UTC)"Maybe it is."
A beat.
"So... I guess we'll see how things go?"
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Date: 2009-01-11 06:05 am (UTC)It's a dumb, dumb plan, but somehow - stupidly, maybe; idiotically, he would have once said - he can't shake the feeling that no matter what . . . it's all going to be pretty much okay.
"And - well, we've got a week, right?"
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Date: 2009-01-11 06:20 am (UTC)Kim takes a couple of steps away from the stove and goes up on tiptoe to give him a quick kiss.
"So we'll just have to make the most of it, won't we?"
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Date: 2009-01-11 06:24 am (UTC)Grinning like an idiot: "That plan works for me."