Coffee goes great with blueberry pie. [ he points out, grateful for the upswing before it shifts back down again. that's more like it. his lips press together and he leans back to listen, arms barred across his chest with the kitchen towel tucked into the fold of them for the time being.
one thing about not talking: he's become a really good listener. and everything she says - strikes a cord. powers: check, standoffishness: check. he can remember jessica's message so clearly, coincidentally the night he and claire kissed by the fire. that was the night he became her lieutenant. that was the night everything changed. if you're not with them you're against them is damn right. hell, sometimes even being with them was taken as against in the end. look at the way himself and jess had split.
frank swallows when he gets to the dead part. wait- is she talking about matt? he wants to give them both plausible deniability so he doesn't ask. but it has to be, right? what other prick superhero up and dies after running roughshod over three women's hearts? that's right, elektra had been in reims too. ]
That's not on you.
[ he sounds sure, but then he's remembering, or actually applying what claire had said. two-way street. if it's not on her what happened to matt then it's not on him what happened to jess. they tried, right? they did everything they could but in the end frank and claire both couldn't betray their own ideals even for people they desperately cared for. ]
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one thing about not talking: he's become a really good listener. and everything she says - strikes a cord. powers: check, standoffishness: check. he can remember jessica's message so clearly, coincidentally the night he and claire kissed by the fire. that was the night he became her lieutenant. that was the night everything changed. if you're not with them you're against them is damn right. hell, sometimes even being with them was taken as against in the end. look at the way himself and jess had split.
frank swallows when he gets to the dead part. wait- is she talking about matt? he wants to give them both plausible deniability so he doesn't ask. but it has to be, right? what other prick superhero up and dies after running roughshod over three women's hearts? that's right, elektra had been in reims too. ]
That's not on you.
[ he sounds sure, but then he's remembering, or actually applying what claire had said. two-way street. if it's not on her what happened to matt then it's not on him what happened to jess. they tried, right? they did everything they could but in the end frank and claire both couldn't betray their own ideals even for people they desperately cared for. ]
I know because I lived it.