smecker: (smoking - i have lost my passion)
smecker ([personal profile] smecker) wrote in [community profile] taxonomites 2012-07-11 06:41 pm (UTC)

[Ferry terminal]

Paul watches the 'scene'-- yeah, it qualifies as that-- leaning gingerly against a wall of the terminal building, eyes half shut, no expression on his face.

No DG, the girl who's present bears a resemblance but isn't her. Paul wonders where Glitch's peppy little girlfriend happens to be, dully recalling their first meeting and her taking him to task for being a foulmouthed SOB towards Glitch himself. Yeahhhh.

He thinks about this because it's a little better than thinking about the bullshit reaction he feels threatening at the sight of Cain just laying one right on his bestest buddy.

It's an Outer Zone thing. Probably. Just yet another instance of the cultural rocks he keeps tripping over-- fuck, running into at full speed. Guys can kiss guys and it doesn't mean that, whatever, shit, even on Earth you can do that if you get out of America. The Mideast, for instance. Totally acceptable.

Doesn't mean that.

And if the stupid bullshit voices whisper that it might, well, so what if it does? This is something that he's accepted the possibility of for a long fucking time now, with the obsessive bracing for life-fucking-you-over that he does out of second nature now.

So Paul just watches. It feels a fucking lot like standing in a certain doorway and staring at another family, which he knows isn't fair, and in any case it's a damn sight better to be watching three people hugging it out like the Brady Bunch than to watch them murdering a judge.

Still. Family. Someone's always gonna be the guy looking through the door.

Cain turns, though. Comes on over to him, and Paul pushes it all out of his head. Too tired for that nonsense, yeah.

"Right behind you, cowboy. First priority is we stop for some fucking cigarettes."

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