[ That's... a good question. It's not really something he's thought about, resigning himself to just learning how to live in the situation they were in right now. ]
I don't know. There's not much of a reason for me to go back.
[ Mal is gone, Dom is with his kids again, and this is the first time he doesn't really have to look over his shoulder all the time. ]
[ For the first time in a long time, Charles is happy, rather than simply content. The school back home fills a hole in his heart, and for the most part, that had been enough. He thought he'd had love enough.
But here, that assumption has been thrown into disarray. While he aches for home something fierce, and likely always will, there is a part of him that can't leave this. May never, even if...when he does return. ]
Of course. There's no sense in prying an answer for something we don't even have a solution to, is there?
[ It's more generous than his heart feels. Than his brain wants to. But it isn't a no, and that's...better than nothing.
Frankly, this is farther along than he's gotten with anyone ever before. It's all uncharted territory, that demands a certain level of charity...doesn't it? ]
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Not the same, perhaps, and believe me, I know first-hand how that never gets easier. But I trust you with mine. The point stands.
[ A pause, and then: ]
And what's to say they're not there when you find your way home?
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But I don't think there is a place for me back there.
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I realize this will likely take a miracle, but what will do you if we do actually manage to find a way back?
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I don't know. There's not much of a reason for me to go back.
[ Mal is gone, Dom is with his kids again, and this is the first time he doesn't really have to look over his shoulder all the time. ]
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But here, that assumption has been thrown into disarray. While he aches for home something fierce, and likely always will, there is a part of him that can't leave this. May never, even if...when he does return. ]
You could come back with us. Me. With...me.
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You'd want me to?
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[ Awkward. And yet he continues. ]
That would be up to you.
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...Unless you want to?
[ He's honestly a little curious. This is going to bite him in the ass and he knows it. But there the suggestion is, and he can't take it back now. ]
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[ You asked for this, Charles. ]
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[ That...was a year ago. Oh god. ]
I could have
you would have been
I take it back. I didn't need to know.
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[ Yeah, he's laughing. ]
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Darling, I consider myself lucky every day.
The offer still stands.
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[ It's more generous than his heart feels. Than his brain wants to. But it isn't a no, and that's...better than nothing.
Frankly, this is farther along than he's gotten with anyone ever before. It's all uncharted territory, that demands a certain level of charity...doesn't it? ]