Adam shifted further away from the window, toward the center of the room to meet him, nervous as a cat and trying to hold himself still inside because of it, wary of betraying any weakness, even to Jack. Glancing around the brightly lit flat and managing a rueful smile dropping down as a mask.
"I think I've done enough damage to your utility bill..."
It was so ridiculously domestic, even with everything running underneath. He couldn't remember the last time he'd shared someone else's space with any sort of intimacy. Jack's eyes were so full of questions and they seemed to mirror his own, the whys and whens of it all a tangled mess in a brain that managed to lose and keep track of time obsessively at the same time.
"You brought dinner?" Which was horribly obvious, but the silence had swirled around him all day and he couldn't bear to let it continue to linger, breaking it with the first thing that came to his mind, forcing some semblance of normalcy onto a situation that lacked it in every capacity.
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Date: 2007-12-06 11:27 pm (UTC)"I think I've done enough damage to your utility bill..."
It was so ridiculously domestic, even with everything running underneath. He couldn't remember the last time he'd shared someone else's space with any sort of intimacy. Jack's eyes were so full of questions and they seemed to mirror his own, the whys and whens of it all a tangled mess in a brain that managed to lose and keep track of time obsessively at the same time.
"You brought dinner?" Which was horribly obvious, but the silence had swirled around him all day and he couldn't bear to let it continue to linger, breaking it with the first thing that came to his mind, forcing some semblance of normalcy onto a situation that lacked it in every capacity.