verbol: (07)
jim mcfattittiesnass ([personal profile] verbol) wrote 2023-12-22 05:32 pm (UTC)

cw: child/sibling loss refs

It's been - well. It's never really long enough, but it's been a while. Gets easier to remember the good times the further away from it I get.

[The birthdays, the parks, the bed time stories, the nights she'd crawl in Jim's lap and fall asleep. Jim's smile is sad, sure, but he remembers the way she used to laugh. He focuses less on how it was, in the end. ]

Thanks, Stephen. I uh - I adopted. Couple years ago. Jane. [The special one. ] She keeps me busy. Did keep me busy, anyway.

[He takes a bite to shut himself up, takes a swig to keep himself continuously shut up. He sighs out after a beat. Says, after: ] Plenty here to keep us both busy, too, I guess.

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