Date: 6 Oct 2023 21:39 (UTC)
conning: (NealC 086)
From: [personal profile] conning
A smile, small and unsteady but real.

"I know. I want to. It just... It's hard for me to care about someone as much as I care about you without weighing how likely it is you'll pick me if it came down to that kind of choice. In my life..." A soft, mirthless noise. "In my life, it always has. And I'm never the one that gets chosen."

Date: 7 Oct 2023 00:23 (UTC)
conning: (NealC 077)
From: [personal profile] conning
Neal shrugs a little helplessly. "I don't mean for it to be."

Date: 7 Oct 2023 00:58 (UTC)
conning: (NealC 152)
From: [personal profile] conning
"I really don't mean for it to be."
Edited Date: 7 Oct 2023 01:04 (UTC)

Date: 14 Oct 2023 18:20 (UTC)
conning: (NealC 203)
From: [personal profile] conning
Neal has no idea how grateful his own expression is. "I know. It's one of many reasons that I love you."

Date: 10 Nov 2023 03:47 (UTC)
conning: (NealC 042)
From: [personal profile] conning
"...Really?" He finds that baffling, personally. "You're really good at chess."

Date: 19 Nov 2023 19:29 (UTC)
conning: (NealC 052)
From: [personal profile] conning
Neal smiles crookedly at that. "Half the barge is macabre and peculiar in their own ways. Anyone who can't acknowledge it respectfully in someone else is a hypocrite."
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