[ He takes the passenger seat, at least. He doesn't do that unless he wants to talk even normally.
Sadly wanting to talk and being able to talk are not the same thing. He gets into the car, tugs twice at the seatbelt to make sure that it's tight enough (and he has only become weirder about seatbelts since the brakes incident.) and looks over to make sure Alucard has remembered his.
And he sighs, because this is as good a way to talk as they're going to get. Neither of them actually looking at each other. Neither of them able to leave or to get so emotional that it might become dangerous. Just words.
It was how they actually managed to talk civilly the first time, wasn't it? ]
...you could have told us about it before the arrangements were made. Made your case. We'd have still fucking hated it, but- we could have fucking hated it productively. Found a way to make it better. This- you might be gone, just like that, and there's nothing either of us can do about it.
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Sadly wanting to talk and being able to talk are not the same thing. He gets into the car, tugs twice at the seatbelt to make sure that it's tight enough (and he has only become weirder about seatbelts since the brakes incident.) and looks over to make sure Alucard has remembered his.
And he sighs, because this is as good a way to talk as they're going to get. Neither of them actually looking at each other. Neither of them able to leave or to get so emotional that it might become dangerous. Just words.
It was how they actually managed to talk civilly the first time, wasn't it? ]
...you could have told us about it before the arrangements were made. Made your case. We'd have still fucking hated it, but- we could have fucking hated it productively. Found a way to make it better. This- you might be gone, just like that, and there's nothing either of us can do about it.