[He's quiet as he continues the process, pulls the grinded beans out so he can get them into the filter. The smell is decent enough he can almost pretend it's Leblanc, sometimes, if he lets his mind get wistful enough. It's enough to keep his heart still.]
No. Nobody's seen or heard from him since.
[I'll carve my own path mixed into everything will return to how it should be weaved with tell him to come by again. They both knew what the most likely outcome would be, and they both still made it.
Even haunted by the anchor of his own impossible promise and the painful space of an absence that he can't ever get rid of, he wouldn't change anything. He'd do it all again, and if the time comes where he has to, he will.]
He and I both knew what would be the cost of our choices. [This isn't trivial!] We still made them, and I'll make them again if I have to. [It isn't trivial that I want you to live-!] One day, we'll know a future beyond March of 2017, and there's no telling what will be waiting for us.
[He shifts his feet as he starts to pour the coffee, a reminder of the weight in his pocket.]
As for the survey... Give me some time to think about it. [He sidesteps from one topic to the next, though a little less neatly than would be the norm. Whether it's to give himself a break or Maruki, it's harder to say, but it's probably the latter. Even with all of his preparedness to tear into whoever nearly killed him, it still makes his pulse jump alarmingly to expose Maruki to that many people's stories.] It shouldn't be a lot, even if I did it alone.
[He needs to trust him. He's trying to. He will. But for this... it's more than Akira thinks he can allow right now.]
:) i always believed u would come back to me, just like-
No. Nobody's seen or heard from him since.
[I'll carve my own path mixed into everything will return to how it should be weaved with tell him to come by again. They both knew what the most likely outcome would be, and they both still made it.
Even haunted by the anchor of his own impossible promise and the painful space of an absence that he can't ever get rid of, he wouldn't change anything. He'd do it all again, and if the time comes where he has to, he will.]
He and I both knew what would be the cost of our choices. [This isn't trivial!] We still made them, and I'll make them again if I have to. [It isn't trivial that I want you to live-!] One day, we'll know a future beyond March of 2017, and there's no telling what will be waiting for us.
[He shifts his feet as he starts to pour the coffee, a reminder of the weight in his pocket.]
As for the survey... Give me some time to think about it. [He sidesteps from one topic to the next, though a little less neatly than would be the norm. Whether it's to give himself a break or Maruki, it's harder to say, but it's probably the latter. Even with all of his preparedness to tear into whoever nearly killed him, it still makes his pulse jump alarmingly to expose Maruki to that many people's stories.] It shouldn't be a lot, even if I did it alone.
[He needs to trust him. He's trying to. He will. But for this... it's more than Akira thinks he can allow right now.]