[ The payoff is not only cheap, but the journey isn't complete at all. Steps have to be taken. Parts of the story need to be discovered. Maybe that was the point of all these loops. Alan finding all the little things he needed and could finally put them together in the right order, the right place, the right time. Or, maybe, it's more accurate to say that he's finally found the way to edit the story that Scratch has written so there is a far more favorable outcome. Not the endings they want, but the ending that has to work to protect the people that deserve that protection. The innocents. The people pulled in.
She does notice the slip of his tongue. Her eyes narrow slightly but no comment is made. What can she say that hasn't already been said? He may not remember the exact words, but she has no doubts he knows what she would say. How she feels. Alan doesn't believe he'll ever come home from the night. He doesn't think he can make it. If he can stop the story, that is enough for him. He'll have made up for the mistakes he's made trying to get this far.
« It's not enough for me. »
Jesse knows he loves her. She can see it in how he smiles, how his eyes soften. He means it as much as he means for this story to end. ]
Alan. [ Her thumbs brush over his cheekbones. A glance down, then up. What she says will be the last request she ever makes from him. Not a demand--a request. ] Say it like you really believe it. Just this once. For me.
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She does notice the slip of his tongue. Her eyes narrow slightly but no comment is made. What can she say that hasn't already been said? He may not remember the exact words, but she has no doubts he knows what she would say. How she feels. Alan doesn't believe he'll ever come home from the night. He doesn't think he can make it. If he can stop the story, that is enough for him. He'll have made up for the mistakes he's made trying to get this far.
« It's not enough for me. »
Jesse knows he loves her. She can see it in how he smiles, how his eyes soften. He means it as much as he means for this story to end. ]
Alan. [ Her thumbs brush over his cheekbones. A glance down, then up. What she says will be the last request she ever makes from him. Not a demand--a request. ] Say it like you really believe it. Just this once. For me.
Please.