Demetri Thornton (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
second_son) wrote2014-08-17 04:27 pm
second_son) wrote2014-08-17 04:27 pm
Late nights and coffee shops [open]
Demetri's only been back in the city for a day, but it feels like more. He's spent all of it in the makeshift town hall offices, getting the paperwork together for his proposal to the council the next night. The funding hadn't been easy to get, especially with the lack of strings that he had demanded. No oversight committee, no outside presence helping them dispense the grant money. Siren Cove business would stay just that, Siren Cove business.
There's more work to do, but he knows he should go home and get some sleep. But sleep is exactly what he doesn't want to do. With sleep comes dreams - nightmares more like it. Of all the things that have been happening in his town whilst he's been away, of everything that had happened in the months leading up to that. His brother being gone and the questions that had remained unanswered about Fabrice's attack.
He settles on setting up in a diner in the end. He has a beer at his elbow and a cooling plate of fries he's not really touched. Laptop open, he's playing with files without really making any changes or doing much work. It's a distraction more than anything, a reason to not go home.
There's more work to do, but he knows he should go home and get some sleep. But sleep is exactly what he doesn't want to do. With sleep comes dreams - nightmares more like it. Of all the things that have been happening in his town whilst he's been away, of everything that had happened in the months leading up to that. His brother being gone and the questions that had remained unanswered about Fabrice's attack.
He settles on setting up in a diner in the end. He has a beer at his elbow and a cooling plate of fries he's not really touched. Laptop open, he's playing with files without really making any changes or doing much work. It's a distraction more than anything, a reason to not go home.
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"You have a nice house," he says, trying to change the subject, knowing that as much as they enjoy teasing Fabrice the other man is embarrassed. It's for his sake that he deflectsthe conversation, hoping to keep it going and to not focus on the particulars of their relationship.
"I haven't been out this way much. Until recently."
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Fabrice squeezes Demetri's hand, smiling at him over his beer. He's learning to not mind the teasing so much, but it's also nice not to have the attention focused on him.
"We country folk do have a lot to offer," he replies with another grin.
"Yes, and I'm glad you decided to come out this way," she says with a grin. "I think if the whole town could just get a whiff of fresh, forest air, it would solve a lot of problems."