lateness: (o34)
𝚃 𝙷 𝙴 _ 𝙳 𝙾 𝙲 𝚃 𝙾 𝚁 . ([personal profile] lateness) wrote in [personal profile] bossily 2021-09-13 05:58 am (UTC)

Don't say that. It is important. And it's important because you're saying it, and you are my Clara, just like the Clara in my precise timestream is my Clara too. We're different only because of where we are, but we're the same person — we just haven't caught up yet.

[ Time's weird and confusing and it's difficult to explain, especially in a way that doesn't make him sound like a hypocrite. But there we have it. There's the best sort of timey-wimey explanation he can come up with. Without using the words 'timey-wimey' too (bit of a mood killer, that).

God, and it hurts both of his hearts in a way that feels hollow and sad, to see the way she's looking at him now — or rather, the way she isn't looking at him at all. He lifts the hand not captured by hers to swipe the tears away again with a thumb and it doesn't feel quite as right anymore, like he's lost the right to do something like that now. ]


River kept a journal for this very reason, for the way we would constantly run into each other but never at the same time. Time is like that, and it doesn't change the fact that River is still River. But I don't think you're saying everything that you want to be saying.

[ And that's okay. It is.

(Maybe. At least that's what he's trying to convince himself of.) ]

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