It's amazing, really, how quick he feels himself falling into the old patterns. For a while there it had been just Storm and him, as Hank disappeared intermittently due to his ambassadorship. He'd wanted to run; that's a feeling he recalls with some intensity. And he had, eventually, but he never got terribly far. The school was the sun he'd aligned his orbit around, where he had friends. Family.
Had. That was the operative word.
There's that sharp pang again, and this time he has nothing else to say on the rest of their journey. ]
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It's amazing, really, how quick he feels himself falling into the old patterns. For a while there it had been just Storm and him, as Hank disappeared intermittently due to his ambassadorship. He'd wanted to run; that's a feeling he recalls with some intensity. And he had, eventually, but he never got terribly far. The school was the sun he'd aligned his orbit around, where he had friends. Family.
Had. That was the operative word.
There's that sharp pang again, and this time he has nothing else to say on the rest of their journey. ]