If I stay like this - just...Peter Kane - I have a shot of not being...
[ He looks down, trying to find a word for what he is. The best he can come up with is a small, exhausted: ]
Pathetic.
[ Because he knows. Even though his head had always been filled with that shit about how he's the savior of Komarr, about how he has this grand destiny, he know that this is all his life really has been. That's become all the more transparent the longer he's lived here. That it's all just...sad. ]
[ He looks up at her, and then slowly, tentatively, skittishly, he reaches out and touches her hand. Lightly, on the palm. And his eyes - an identical gray to hers - look up and meet hers. ]
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Date: 2016-05-22 09:56 pm (UTC)[ He looks down, trying to find a word for what he is. The best he can come up with is a small, exhausted: ]
Pathetic.
[ Because he knows. Even though his head had always been filled with that shit about how he's the savior of Komarr, about how he has this grand destiny, he know that this is all his life really has been. That's become all the more transparent the longer he's lived here. That it's all just...sad. ]
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Date: 2016-05-22 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-22 10:33 pm (UTC)Just a clone.
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Date: 2016-05-22 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-22 10:42 pm (UTC)What will I be once I betray you, Countess? ]
I just - don't want him to know.
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Date: 2016-05-22 11:19 pm (UTC)[ But her hand is still outstretched on the table between them. ]
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Date: 2016-05-28 07:19 pm (UTC)Um...Yeah. Thanks.
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Date: 2016-05-29 01:34 am (UTC)Could I get to know you, Peter? Would you allow me to?
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Date: 2016-05-30 02:10 am (UTC)There's not much to know, lady.
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Date: 2016-05-30 08:34 pm (UTC)