unknowable: (no emotion that's worth having)
Aᴅᴀᴍ Pᴀʀʀɪsʜ ([personal profile] unknowable) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs 2015-12-14 08:36 am (UTC)

"Yeah."

He's not sure he'll be able to sleep, but he isn't going to say that to Ronan, who after all has far more trouble with that than Adam does. He wishes recklessly that things were different, that he could ask Ronan to stay with him, because he knows that being alone with his thoughts is going to be - difficult. Frustrating. It's not that Adam wants anything besides company. He just misses the days when Ronan would sleep - or not sleep - on his floor, the cramped apartment above St Agnes paradoxically seeming a little bigger with him in it. They didn't talk much, mostly, but having a real person there instead of just Cabeswater's ghosts - well, it helped.

But he never asked that of Ronan then, and he especially can't now, with all that's between them. It would be the height of selfishness. And it's fine if Adam can't sleep. He has to plan, even if there's nothing they can do here, even if they might never get home. He has to make every plan that he can, to be sure that Gansey will be safe. Sleep will be a necessary casualty, until he exhausts himself too much to stay awake.

He doesn't like that any of this happened. But Ronan hasn't turned away from him, even if Gansey did, and Adam's goals haven't changed. Gansey might be angry, he might not trust Adam anymore, but Adam is going to keep him safe anyway. It's not a heroic impulse, not a kind one. It's pure stubbornness, probably, but that's fine.

"Thanks."

He doubts Ronan wants to hear that, and it feels awkward to say it, but - it needs to be said.

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