conning: (NealC 033)

[personal profile] conning 2023-11-20 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"The same March or the following March?"

Neal relaxes a little, feeling better now that there's some normalcy in their little circle. And since things have turned away from his own confusing personal math.
littletonoidea: (that doesn't sound right)

[personal profile] littletonoidea 2023-11-20 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"The March when we turned into the zombie book club," he reminds him. "I got back like ten minutes before the breach started, apparently I was only gone for a week."
conning: (NealC 029)

[personal profile] conning 2023-11-25 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's bizarre to think about how that was eight months ago. It feels like forever and no time at all." He leans against them for a second, at the dizzying thought that, once upon a time not that long ago, he was an inmate, stuck until he figured himself out, his options either being death or permanent residence. If he hadn't graduated, Shaw and Eiffel would eventually leave, and he'd be left behind.

It makes him feel slightly sick, put in those terms.

Neal rubs his face with both hands, automatically breathing in the calming count he doesn't need to think about any more.
littletonoidea: (pic#15918106)

[personal profile] littletonoidea 2023-11-28 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Eiffel's hand comes back so he can massage Neal's head as best he can reach.

"I've been here a scooch over half as long as I've been on the Hephaestus," he points out. "It's weird thinking about how long we hang out here."
conning: (NealC 079)

[personal profile] conning 2023-12-16 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
"No," Neal says, smiling and closing his eyes, enjoying the massage like a cat getting scritched behind the ears. "I had certainly heard his voice before, but as for actual acquaintance, that breach was the first time we met."
Edited 2023-12-16 04:35 (UTC)