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Itâs so like her to dilute his reaction with humor. And the cheeky kind, too, the kind that makes him want to tear his hair out on occasion, but is so distinctly Mitch that he would have appreciated it better if she hadnât just made a full-body apparition on account of him starting to think sheâd been dead all this time.
âHey Cas?â he repeats with a mocking lilt. He lifts his arms off the counter to fold them across his chest, leaving her under his scrutinizing gaze. âIs that all you have to say- fucking Hey Cas?â He knows, eventually, heâll get over it, because he always does, because she always makes him, until she runs off again. Rinse. Repeat.
âYouâre fucking unbelievable, you know that? Just⌠real fucking unbelievableâŚâ
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âoh, jesus fuckinâ christ âââ see, this is the part she expected. the part where she tries to crawl back into the spaces she left vacant but it doesnât fit anymore: and itâs grinding, screeching pain, and he wonât let her in, and she deserves this, she knows, but it still fucking hurts â not that she can say it. she needs a smoke: when things get tough, watching something burning seems to calm her down. reminds her of her nature, perhaps. but thereâs a big âno smokingâ sign hanging in the corner, and the blinking red light of a fire alarm staring back at her. she glares, huffs, crosses her arms â sheâs a child throwing a tantrum, a child who thought this time, maybe, she would get away with it.
thereâs no getting away with murder, is there?
her sigh is the kind of dramatic, i-am-so-done-with-you cue pamela novak invented, and she hates it the second it leaves her mouth â the predictable result is just more nervousness, skittering around her words like a bomb is hidden somewhere between their dialogue and sheâs not sure whether she wants to keep it from detonating. another huffing noise, and then sheâs stepping closer: sharp gestures to signal she means business.
âcan we like, chill it with the dramatics? alright, i was a dick. i get that. but iâm back now. so, yeah. hey cas â how the fuck have you been?â














