Because I'm trying to be more honest and a caring parent, I feel as if that will be dangerous and while you are a tribrid, I worry about the various calamities that could befall you, the air quality, and any number of other mishaps or dangers that await. But, knowing you'll be by my side, working toward a common goal, and if anything were to happen that I'd be right there, it does help me breathe a bit better.
Is that a little too honest. I'm trying to be a parent. I didn't have much experience before this.
well i don't have a ton of experience having to answer to my father, so i guess we're kind of in the same boat. [Yikes, honesty hour got real.] sorry that came out...not how i wanted it to.ย as far as the danger, i've dealt with worse.ย it's just a mountain.ย how bad can it be? [lol]
However it came out, I understand, and the experiences you haven't had with me, are equal in the experiences I never had with you.
I want you to know, that when we first reunited and you were only seven years old, bonding with you, painting, seeing you mend that butterfly with your unbound powers, meant more to me than anything. Getting to know my daughter, and how caring she was, her affinity for delicious and expensive New Orleans cuisine. I don't know if I would redo anything, what with these time-line discrepancies, because I was different then, but I do wish I hadn't gotten caught up in my 'mad' persona. Not being near you hurt more than I liked to admit, and staying away made things easier, on the both of us I had thought, but I didn't much consider you in the equation, did I? I thought you'd be in fine hands with Hayley. I never apologized for that, for the sacrifice I made that tore me away the first time, or why I stayed away so long the second.
( Once he retrieves this message, he will not be kind. But, luckily for Akechi, the procedure has all ready happened and Klaus hasn't been re-implanted. Sorry, Akechi. Klaus is otherwise preoccupied-slash-captured right now. Die in a fire kay? )
[ When the brain surgery thing gets picked up around the safehouse for real, there aren't a whole lot of names Tim recognises โ aside from Klaus, the only other is Daisy. He debates for a little bit about contacting Klaus at all. They're friends, he supposes, inasmuch as Tim has friends here, but half of him is worried that Klaus might see any message as a kind of intrusion, as an overstepping of boundaries. Surely he has other people who're looking out for him.
Eventually, he decides to just rip off the fucking bandaid. Klaus can ignore this if he wants, Tim doesn't give a shit. He'll just feel better knowing he did it. ]
( It's Timothy who ends up ahead of him, his words anyway, as Klaus finishes a half day at the gallery. Yes, he had three "vacation" days, but his employer was feeling generous which is code for, wants to continue his affair behind his wife's back. It leaves Klaus alone in the gallery. If he wasn't going to do any real work before, now that this conversation has started all but ensures the opposite of productivity.
It is a welcome message, in truth, but Klaus finds that he needs to tread lightly with Tim. The man is both interested but detached at times. If Klaus scares him away, then, why would Klaus befriend someone whose stomach can't take real conversation.
He's still going to play it close to the vest. He and Tim aren't 'my pseudo ex is missing and my daughter was tortured' friends just yet. Or, they are. Who is he to say what Tim can or can't take.
He sits back in the chair, his boss having closed the front door behind him. He's alone now. He can have a conversation. )
You know, when I'm from, there is something of a cheeky answer to be given to that question, but I don't exactly fall under the demographic.
( He's never had complaints is the joke line. But. )
Are you checking on behalf of the other Displaced how our surgeries fared?
[ For a second after sending that, Tim thought about making the joke himself, but he honestly wasn't sure if Klaus would be in the joking mood. Referencing a joke he could have made isn't the same thing, either, so Tim's still a little edgy. He chews his lip for a minute, wondering if he's overstepped some line. But Klaus is a big boy, he'd say so if that was the case. ]
Mostly just wanted to make sure your vocabulary's still intact Clearly it is
( Both Klaus and Tim seem to be circling around the fact that if either one of them didn't want to reply, or talk, they would. So, it's clear they're in this now.
That joke and all. )
Duly noted.
Nothing has hindered my vocabulary or my motor functions. I do however have quite the jagged bone to pick with a certain doctor, but perhaps that's also a tale for the mountain. Speaking of, how are Everest preparations coming? Though the deserts you were stationed among can get chilly at night, it's nothing compared to the Himalayas.
( Partially on purpose, but only because Tim doesn't do serious conversation well, and a lot went down. Someone is missing and ravenous. And Klaus is spending his extracurricular time trying to track down the limo service hired pick up team brain surgery. )
[ Tim can't help making a face at that, although there's nothing inherently wrong with joining someone for dinner. He's been to Rachel's for dinner a few times. God, he misses Rachel. It still takes him a little while longer to respond, though; the first time he met Klaus, he'd been drunk, and it was easier to talk to him then. Not so easy now. Maybe he should get a bottle of something. ]
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