Albert didn't smile, as much as the temptation called to him, no, instead he took a step closer to the man, staring up past dark rims.
William’s eye flared, the vein in his temple throbbing with fury. His voice cut the stale air.
“What I gave you saved your life, Albert!” he barked, stepping forward. “It did not mean nothing! Yet you-” His hand twitched violently, the phantom ache in his absent arm
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"You are correct, it was convenient. You were. While you saved my life, yes, it was still unnecessary to 'reach out'. Why should I? We embarked on separating paths, you knew this as well as I."
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Albert restrains himself, glowering down at the boy, "It was my shelf, before you decided it was to be shared."
Simple items, Albert noted, nothing of substantial growth or requirement.
His head lifted only slightly, just enough for blue eyes to flick toward the taller figure-briefly, dismissively, before returning to the his belongings.
“It was not yours either,” he said with an even tone. “It is a shared shelf.”
William set the last of his books down,
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A fool, a cocky little boy who wandered into the lion's den and refuses to heed an elder's mind.
At the placement beneath the pillow, his eyes draw over, a subtle pinch forming before an idea grows.
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His expression twitches, staring down at the boy with thinly veiled disdain.
"That wasn't yours to touch, now was it?" The older steps closer, brushing at the nudged books and binders as though to wipe away the contamination of being touched by another.
He appeared just in place as the room used to be, button down without a single wrinkle even as he leant to readjust with the lessening space.
The thing he was to be spending time with was young, too young- a thought just as ugly as it rearing in his senses before he swallowed it
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Time will tell. Now that coffee, where is it?
And your lack of responsibility is my propane how exactly? And my police team is not pretend, I have to oversee them and tolerate your behavioral issues here— that’s tiring in of itself.
I surely hope that nothing occurs to the refrigerated samples you have. teapawt.net/drwilliambrkin/status/…