But then, Mack's dead and has been for a while like so many others. Like Addy, he'd begun to fear. How could he not? That's just how these things go, when you don't hear from someone in a while--especially after they jump off a fucking cliff. Happy reunions are more rare than blue skin these days.
Another thing almost as rare--an actual laugh, and a healthy one, bubbling up out of him as she hugs him and he hugs her back, no matter that the z-whacker and his rifle and all the other assorted weapons between them make such PDA a bit of an awkward business.
Damn, is he glad she's not a less literal pancake at the bottom of a cliff. Even Murphyfied, it's still Addy.
Weathering the punch, he holds onto her shoulders, taking stock of her. As much as it kills him to have to be the rain on the parade, he shakes his head.]
No. Just me.
[But the most important thing--]
But you are.
[If Warren or Doc were here, they'd care more about that fun fact after years of only Lucy's secondhand news to go off of. And then Lucy, too, had been gone.]
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But then, Mack's dead and has been for a while like so many others. Like Addy, he'd begun to fear. How could he not? That's just how these things go, when you don't hear from someone in a while--especially after they jump off a fucking cliff. Happy reunions are more rare than blue skin these days.
Another thing almost as rare--an actual laugh, and a healthy one, bubbling up out of him as she hugs him and he hugs her back, no matter that the z-whacker and his rifle and all the other assorted weapons between them make such PDA a bit of an awkward business.
Damn, is he glad she's not a less literal pancake at the bottom of a cliff. Even Murphyfied, it's still Addy.
Weathering the punch, he holds onto her shoulders, taking stock of her. As much as it kills him to have to be the rain on the parade, he shakes his head.]
No. Just me.
[But the most important thing--]
But you are.
[If Warren or Doc were here, they'd care more about that fun fact after years of only Lucy's secondhand news to go off of. And then Lucy, too, had been gone.]