Either way, he's getting better at touching things, isn't he? That's something, right?
Tim was never meant to be the optimistic one out of the two of them. That was always Jay; Jay and his stupid, persistent search for answers and his simplistic belief that some solution was lingering just out of reach, ready to resolve everything all nice and neat.
Doesn't matter much, anyhow, as Tim gets the poltergeist equivalent of a clumsy subject change. He resists the urge to roll his eyes. Barely.
"Fine," he says tonelessly, depositing his keys on the tabletop beside the board in a jangling spill. "Boring. Guess I should be glad they took me back, what with how unexpectedly high maintenance I can be and all."
Some of the old bitterness seeping in. It's never easy getting jobs, less easy to keep them with him being the way he is. No one wants to hire someone broken. No one wants to hire someone like him.
tw: self-loathing
Tim was never meant to be the optimistic one out of the two of them. That was always Jay; Jay and his stupid, persistent search for answers and his simplistic belief that some solution was lingering just out of reach, ready to resolve everything all nice and neat.
Doesn't matter much, anyhow, as Tim gets the poltergeist equivalent of a clumsy subject change. He resists the urge to roll his eyes. Barely.
"Fine," he says tonelessly, depositing his keys on the tabletop beside the board in a jangling spill. "Boring. Guess I should be glad they took me back, what with how unexpectedly high maintenance I can be and all."
Some of the old bitterness seeping in. It's never easy getting jobs, less easy to keep them with him being the way he is. No one wants to hire someone broken. No one wants to hire someone like him.