no wait god no i meant like when you found the channel and got pissed off not
[God bless text. If this were face to face, he knows he'd be stuttering.]
[Sorry, Max. Jay's just gone silent for a bit while he gets his head and mouth to start cooperating again. His hands are barely there, so he sends another message:]
i mean of course you freaked out back then you were a kid
[Not every kid's got it together as well as Clem, and Jay's not sure it's a good thing for her, either.]
[It's still easier to think about her than about him, the child with the dark hair and the uncannily familiar eyes. Jay managed to meet him twice, and both times, he couldn't do a thing. Jay couldn't even calm him down, couldn't reassure him that he was trying to help.]
[Children shouldn't talk to strangers, after all.]
[Ignore it, shove it down. It's easier to talk about Max.]
[He rewrites his next message several times, cycling through variations on 'that's not your job,' 'if you're talking to her than so am i,' 'i'm talking to her', 'i'm coming with you,' 'just you?' 'seriously i'm already on the phone with her,' 'just let me do it,' 'we're both talking to her.']
if you're talking to her then i might as well come too
no subject
god
no i meant like when you found the channel and got pissed off
not
[God bless text. If this were face to face, he knows he'd be stuttering.]
[Sorry, Max. Jay's just gone silent for a bit while he gets his head and mouth to start cooperating again. His hands are barely there, so he sends another message:]
i mean of course you freaked out back then
you were a kid
[Not every kid's got it together as well as Clem, and Jay's not sure it's a good thing for her, either.]
[It's still easier to think about her than about him, the child with the dark hair and the uncannily familiar eyes. Jay managed to meet him twice, and both times, he couldn't do a thing. Jay couldn't even calm him down, couldn't reassure him that he was trying to help.]
[Children shouldn't talk to strangers, after all.]
[Ignore it, shove it down. It's easier to talk about Max.]
[He rewrites his next message several times, cycling through variations on 'that's not your job,' 'if you're talking to her than so am i,' 'i'm talking to her', 'i'm coming with you,' 'just you?' 'seriously i'm already on the phone with her,' 'just let me do it,' 'we're both talking to her.']
if you're talking to her then i might as well come too
[God bless text.]