peacefulexplorer: (wandering thoughts that can't be free)
Daniel Jackson ([personal profile] peacefulexplorer) wrote in [community profile] applesaucedream 2015-08-04 04:39 pm (UTC)

"That it nearly killed someone," he says, stretching the words out cautiously. How does one make a pronouncement of concern sound like anything but the criticism he doesn't want it to be? "That it's part of, uh, a nightmare? Your nightmare?"

His voice falters. It's clear he's trespassing on something deeply personal, and Johnny's attitude of frosty neutrality isn't doing much to put him at ease.

Maybe he shouldn't be here.

That's practically his talent. Opening doors he shouldn't. Entering places he doesn't belong.

It's different when it's a person.

"I shouldn't have - " His voice falters. "I shouldn't have asked this of you. I'm sorry."

The idea that something like that could fix anything is, as always, bleakly absurd. Empty apologies. Self-contradictory and self-flagellating and utterly, utterly pointless.

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