(no subject)
Dec. 26th, 2013 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Mike is in his element: Surrounded by happy family.
It doesn't matter that he's elbow-deep in dishwater with a stack of plates and flatware nearly taller than he is to his left, his family is here and safe and happy, and that's all that really matters.
It doesn't matter that he's elbow-deep in dishwater with a stack of plates and flatware nearly taller than he is to his left, his family is here and safe and happy, and that's all that really matters.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 02:13 am (UTC)Right?
Ehhh?
Okay, fine.
"You think he'd say, No?"
no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 02:19 am (UTC)Or that he wouldn't understand why I would even ask.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 02:32 am (UTC)I just think he'd be weirded out by the level of normal involved."
Glod knows I am.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 02:36 am (UTC)"I know that he would understand the concept. But he can't be beholden or somethin', sayin' yes without meaning to and such."
no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 03:09 am (UTC)So instead he snaps his jaw shut.
He loves you.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 03:13 am (UTC)Except for how, now that Sallie's thinking about it, isn't she? In worrying about Splinter having some sort of bad reaction to her even bringing up the idea?
That's uncomfortable, she thinks at herself.
"Would you have a problem with it?"
no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 12:03 am (UTC)No.
I don't know.
"It's...complicated," he says finally, trying his best to keep his thoughts under the tightest of control.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 12:31 am (UTC)Touché.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 01:04 am (UTC)Or a million other things?
And then, faded and gray, is an image of Sallie and Splinter, walking around New York City.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 04:17 am (UTC)He smirks. Two can play at that game.
Then the image of his master and Sallie wandering New York City bleeds through, and his smirk softens.
no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 11:42 am (UTC)Sallie knows that Mike 'gets' it, for as much as Sallie herself understands wherever the hell this line of thinking has been coming from. But, somehow, Mike became one of the few people that 'gets' the inside of Sallie's head. It's not fair to hope that he can magically translate anything, but that didn't stop part of her brain from hoping he'd be able to do so.
"'Tis what 'tis, I suppose?"