( his hands are doing the same, shoulders starting to hunch defensively. but his answer, when spoken, is almost expressionless )
Always?
( it's not confirmation he's looking for - he's not sure what he's looking for, in truth - because the way she says it, he's sure she believes it. but it reminds him of gil and a promise made a decade ago; at the time, the only thing he'd had to say to something like that was i don't believe in 'forever.' things are different now, but it - still seems like sort of a painful avowal to hear. )
no subject
Always?
( it's not confirmation he's looking for - he's not sure what he's looking for, in truth - because the way she says it, he's sure she believes it. but it reminds him of gil and a promise made a decade ago; at the time, the only thing he'd had to say to something like that was i don't believe in 'forever.' things are different now, but it - still seems like sort of a painful avowal to hear. )