[Shaw finishes the sentence, crossing her arms tight over her chest. She turns to move away into the living room, but gestures him forward, not wanting him to take her withdrawal as a dismissal. He might not be able to drink, but she can, and she already has an opened bottle sitting on the coffee table.
Luckily, it's the only one in sight, and that includes the trash can. She may drink to cope, but she doesn't appear to be overdoing it.]
You want the apartment back?
[She says this as she sits down heavily on the couch, contemplating the bottle in her hands.]
[It's a guess, honestly, rather than something she has personal experience with. She doesn't want to walk away from this apartment that she's shared with Root for the past several months: it's a nice place, there's some stuff here that she likes, and she wants to keep Root's things safe. But if push came to shove, if she had to vacate, she knows that she could do so easily. Sentimentality is a conscious choice, not something that's a part of her DNA.]
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[Shaw finishes the sentence, crossing her arms tight over her chest. She turns to move away into the living room, but gestures him forward, not wanting him to take her withdrawal as a dismissal. He might not be able to drink, but she can, and she already has an opened bottle sitting on the coffee table.
Luckily, it's the only one in sight, and that includes the trash can. She may drink to cope, but she doesn't appear to be overdoing it.]
You want the apartment back?
[She says this as she sits down heavily on the couch, contemplating the bottle in her hands.]
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Yeah. Exactly.
[ it sucks — that's succinctly put, but entirely true. he follows her after a beat, and simply flops down cross-legged in the middle of the room. ]
Nah, it's yours. I've got the house, still. It feels empty, but the idea of leaving it...
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[It's a guess, honestly, rather than something she has personal experience with. She doesn't want to walk away from this apartment that she's shared with Root for the past several months: it's a nice place, there's some stuff here that she likes, and she wants to keep Root's things safe. But if push came to shove, if she had to vacate, she knows that she could do so easily. Sentimentality is a conscious choice, not something that's a part of her DNA.]