[ Oh god Cath that’s not even the point of telling a story about a cool thing that happened, but whatever.
At this admission Simon glances at her in surprise; it’s resignation she’s talking about, but it’s resignation to the state of sharing a planet with just him, in spite of how exasperating she finds him, so it’s a surprisingly kind sentiment. He looks out across the water, interlacing his fingers. ]
Yeah, me too. [ Having these conversations with Catherine is a considerably more self-conscious affair than Simon’s used to, as someone not nearly as emotionally reticent as she is, and he looks down at his hands. Some of it is unavoidable, because he has no frame of reference for this situation whatsoever. Usually knowing somebody for two days and missing them for four months makes you weird at best, and he’s obviously never met somebody under the circumstances he and Catherine met under. I Appreciate You conversations he can do, but this one requires... a whole new emotional vocabulary. ]
I didn’t think I had, I thought finding out there were so many different universes would make PATHOS-II feel even more like a bad dream. And it did, kind of, but... then it just felt like you were the most... real, certain thing I knew of now, so it was weird that you weren’t around. [ a pause, before he adds, ] I mean, you were ‘around’. I have the Omnitool. But still.
[ And having the Omnitool probably made it a little weirder. In PATHOS-II, when they needed something, it was always Somewhere Around Here, and it never stopped feeling like he should be able to find a terminal to plug her into, which probably wasn’t helped by the fact that Headquarters is not entirely unlike PATHOS when it wasn’t falling apart.
he huffs out a small, awkward half-laugh. ] Weird, right?
[ if he points it out self-deprecatingly it will be less weird ???? ]
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At this admission Simon glances at her in surprise; it’s resignation she’s talking about, but it’s resignation to the state of sharing a planet with just him, in spite of how exasperating she finds him, so it’s a surprisingly kind sentiment. He looks out across the water, interlacing his fingers. ]
Yeah, me too. [ Having these conversations with Catherine is a considerably more self-conscious affair than Simon’s used to, as someone not nearly as emotionally reticent as she is, and he looks down at his hands. Some of it is unavoidable, because he has no frame of reference for this situation whatsoever. Usually knowing somebody for two days and missing them for four months makes you weird at best, and he’s obviously never met somebody under the circumstances he and Catherine met under. I Appreciate You conversations he can do, but this one requires... a whole new emotional vocabulary. ]
I didn’t think I had, I thought finding out there were so many different universes would make PATHOS-II feel even more like a bad dream. And it did, kind of, but... then it just felt like you were the most... real, certain thing I knew of now, so it was weird that you weren’t around. [ a pause, before he adds, ] I mean, you were ‘around’. I have the Omnitool. But still.
[ And having the Omnitool probably made it a little weirder. In PATHOS-II, when they needed something, it was always Somewhere Around Here, and it never stopped feeling like he should be able to find a terminal to plug her into, which probably wasn’t helped by the fact that Headquarters is not entirely unlike PATHOS when it wasn’t falling apart.
he huffs out a small, awkward half-laugh. ] Weird, right?
[ if he points it out self-deprecatingly it will be less weird ???? ]