[john smiles at her when he sees that smile on her face even if the bittersweet nature of it hits him square in the chest.]
It means something that you work at it and that you can recognize that about yourself enough to work at it. [he meets her gaze across the counter, breathing in deeply, because he really hasn't worked at it at all. john has been so wrapped up in this war and so wrapped up in surviving for so long that he-- he has never really known how to live.
he's caught glimpses of it in the lair, but he is always thinking and planning.]
It must be hard... even exhausting sometimes. [to always be working at it, but then again, it's exhausting to hold on too tightly to things and to be stuck.]
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It means something that you work at it and that you can recognize that about yourself enough to work at it. [he meets her gaze across the counter, breathing in deeply, because he really hasn't worked at it at all. john has been so wrapped up in this war and so wrapped up in surviving for so long that he-- he has never really known how to live.
he's caught glimpses of it in the lair, but he is always thinking and planning.]
It must be hard... even exhausting sometimes. [to always be working at it, but then again, it's exhausting to hold on too tightly to things and to be stuck.]