MCA #2 | Wednesday Morning

[long_memory]

After radio was done, Silver went back to the sanctity of his own apartment where he could ignore the falling bags in peace. At first he had been disturbed and did his best to hide them out of sight. Among them were the ones that related to anything regarding his apparent attraction to Captain Flint and the guilt over leaving him and Madi behind.

Eventually he got tired of putting in the effort of hiding things and just sat on the mermaid couch in front of the TV and ignored them falling around him. He repressed his entire childhood, he could repress some overly familiar suitcases, don't you think he couldn't.

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[thatwaslucky]

"Confront your issues, get a prize?" Rey teased, and then decided, "Actually that sounds like a good idea."

[long_memory]

"I mean, if the island really wanted to help people that's what it would do," Silver said. "This here is just annoying."

[thatwaslucky]

"Annoying, and I'm absolutely going to think too much about it," Rey admitted. She could repress like a champ until the issues were literally in front of her.

[long_memory]

"Do you think that by doing that anything will change with the issues?" he asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"For some people, maybe. For me, probably not," she said, thoughtful. "A trunk about parental abandonment doesn't change anything, aside from stick in my head."

A lot of her issues were what they were and that was it.

[long_memory]

Silver tightened his arms around her. "Then there's no use to keep thinking about it."

Avoid everything, like he did!

[thatwaslucky]

"Can you really turn those thoughts off that easily?" Rey wondered.

[long_memory]

"Not easily," he said. "But if you try hard enough you can."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm not sure that's my speed these days," Rey said after a moment. "Thinking about it doesn't change anything but not thinking about things just made it hurt worse later."

[long_memory]

Silver just shrugged. It seemed to be working okay for him so far.

Just, you know, ignore all the bags lying around.

[thatwaslucky]

"We're different people," Rey smiled.

[long_memory]

"Agreed," he said, relaxing some. "You probably deal with things in a better way."

[thatwaslucky]

"Maybe," she said, tightening her arm around him a bit. "The thing about growing up the way I did is that you see how much everyone has to figure out their own way to deal with their situation."

Like how she could wish he'd talk to her when Fandom brought up bad stuff, she also couldn't get upset with him for not.

[long_memory]

"You are very wise," he said, only half-teasing. "How did I get so lucky?"

[thatwaslucky]

"You were smart enough to answer a text," Rey teased back.

[long_memory]

"That's right," he said, laughing. "I guess we're both wise then."

[thatwaslucky]

"We're doing pretty well for ourselves, I think," Rey said. "At least so far."

[long_memory]

"We could be doing worse," he agreed. "I'm sure there are others out there today having a breakdown."

[thatwaslucky]

"I hope not. This isn't fun but there are definitely worse days," Rey decided.

Of course look at her coping mechanism right now.

[long_memory]

"Like the horse thing," he said. "The nightmare ones, not the pony ones."

[thatwaslucky]

"Yes," Rey said immediately, and firmly. "I would much rather see words a bag than experiencing what happened to cause them."

[long_memory]

"It was bad enough watching other people go through it," he said, running his hand along her arm. "I can't imagine it happening to me."

[thatwaslucky]

"You didn't have to deal with that at all?" she asked.

[long_memory]

"If I did it wasn't anything I didn't already have." Nightmares about losing his leg? Happened a lot in the first place.

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm glad Fandom was able to spare you that, at least," Rey said, running her fingers along his side.