Duke Crocker (
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The deck of the Fin and Tonic, Tuesday afternoon
Duke had gone into town this morning, and come back with an acoustic guitar. It'd been ages since he'd last played, so he set about turning and warming up with unusual focus before eventually starting to play something relatively simple.
"Sorry
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like sorry, like sorry. . . ."
Should the narrative pretend that his song choice was random? Obviously it was not. It had been running through his head for days.
[for those on the island, and likely slow play!]
"Sorry
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like sorry, like sorry. . . ."
Should the narrative pretend that his song choice was random? Obviously it was not. It had been running through his head for days.
[for those on the island, and likely slow play!]
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Sorry, it took a moment for the relevant memory to surface from beneath everything else that had been going on lately.
"Oh. From -- that's who you mentioned before, right?"
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It was more of a prompt than anything. It didn't take a particularly bright person to figure out why he might've been thinking about that song in particular, after all.
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She slid her hand on top of his.
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"But you've been thinking about specific ones."
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There was another Tracy Chapman one in particular he had in mind, but he wasn't certain he'd earned it, quite yet.
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(It wasn't like he could promise anything more than that. Neither could she.)
"And I'm going to..." she started, then drew a breath. "To try and ask more questions. If I feel like you're not getting what I'm saying."
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She ignored it, for now, shifting closer with his tugging. Even if that only left her with a vague hum for a response.
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So, complicated.
"Can we just... sit, for a while?" she asked, with some hesitation.
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And tried to move his arm so that it was around her.
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"I know you said 'just sit'. But ai hod yu in."
He didn't think she'd complain about that small amount of talking.
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She settled her head against his shoulder.
"I love you, too."
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