Things feel like they'll be forever, but they won't

[bringstheheat]

There's an odd lightness in Mick's chest when he wakes. A feeling of contentment.

Mick Rory is happy.
It's not a feeling he has ever been used to.
Because something always came to take it away. Shatter it. Burn it to ash.
Monsters like him don't get happy endings.

But damn if he isn't going to hold on to it for as long as he can.

He's still oddly at war with himself as he showers, dresses and heads off in search of Sara. Mick swore to himself he would be up front with her. Honest.
So it's time to talk about last night.
About Leonard warm and secure in his arms.

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[strongerthanyouknow]

Sara's still in the library.

But maybe Sara has given up focusing on whatever she had been. Before Leonard.
Or maybe she's given up pretending she was ever focused on anything before that, too.




She's lounging on a free chair. Knee pulled up, leaned to a side. Fingertips relaxed around the rim of a glass seated between her legs, but she's staring at the main room screen. Where the map is. She could probably draw it mostly from memory by now, but it's really questionable if it's even really truly there. Anywhere in front of her eyes. As she stares at it, turning all of it over and over in head, and all she really thinks about, she's aware, is two things. Two people.