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helen of troy. ([personal profile] divorcing) wrote in [personal profile] followups 2025-06-14 02:12 am (UTC)

"I missed you."

A sentiment so entirely divorced from these past months of silence.

He had missed Daniel. He had been missing Daniel, years of missing him, without even fully understanding or recognizing the feeling. The way Daniel says this thing, it reminds Louis of the night they met. It reminds him of the way Daniel talked about his interviews, fussing with the strap of the bag holding his tape recorder.

World-changing. Daniel has done his fair share already.

Daniel could open the door and step out of a moving car if he wanted, but Louis doesn't make him. He pulls to the curb, as directed. Daniel is going to leave. Louis is going to let him. Daniel will publish the book. Louis is going to let him. Inevitable, all of it.

Louis wants it to be inevitable too, that they come back to each other. But he doesn't know how to draw that out of Daniel, so bites back the urge to appeal more strongly to him.

"Call me," he says instead. "I want you to call me, anytime you like. Or need."

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