Adam Parrish

[chiseler]

I'm not calling you a ghost, just stop haunting me
and I love you so much, I'm gonna let you kill me
There's a ghost in my lungs and it sighs in my sleep
Wraps itself around my tongue as it softly speaks
Then it walks, then it walks with my legs
To fall, to fall, to fall at your feet

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[chiseler]

[Is this normal? He doesn't pull away from Adam's hand but he doesn't quite respond either.]

I think...[He doesn't finish the sentence. "I think I might have had that once." This means something to Adam. Luke knows that. It means something to him, too, but he isn't sure what yet.] Normal. After everything? Normal sounds pretty good right about now. What's the first step?

[antietam]

[ Adam considers him quietly. It's not an exact answer. It sounds good right now and maybe it won't sound good later, is how Adam takes it. But Adam can be normal while Luke isn't normal and it's not going to ruin anything; they can both do whatever they want.

He pulls his hand away and looks up at the sky. ] How should I know? I imagined something like this. A house and a car and a nice job. I guess I can scratch that last one off. I think I wanted to go to movies and restaurants and whatever people our age should be doing.

... But we can start off with getting used to it. Getting used to... each other now?

[chiseler]

[There's another long pause.]

One of these things is probably going to be harder than the other. But with nothing else to do, we can start figuring out what people our age should be doing and would be doing if they were alive.

What happens if we decide after spending enough time together we actually don't want to get used to each other or be around each other? Got a plan for that?

[antietam]

[ There's a pause and then a slightly nervous laugh. ]

Nice, Castellan. If it turns out you don't like spending time with me when we're not in constant danger of being killed, it's not a big deal. Just let me know and you can have the movie theater and I'll take the library.

[chiseler]

[There's a slight deprecating huff of laughter then.] That's not the part I'm worried about, Adam. [But he sits up and opens his eyes, looking down the street again.] We should head in. Lara'll want to see you, I'm sure.

[antietam]

[ He doesn't believe him. There's no other reason to ask a question like that. It makes Adam leave his defenses up but he nods, not wanting to fight since he also wants to see Lara. ]

Sure. We'll see what she wants to build. [ He wonders whose house this is and if this means they're staying together, but he'd prefer to ask Lara than Luke at the moment. ]