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im_torchwood) wrote2020-05-16 06:12 pm
im_torchwood) wrote2020-05-16 06:12 pm
Logan
"Ugh, I can't read Swedish," Jack grumbled, tossing the little hex wrench to the floor.
He'd had this great idea to build a shelf. Just a shelf. How hard could it be? He'd built lots of things.
Clearly he'd never built anything in Sweden.
Jack sighed and picked the tool back up from the carpet in their flat.
"Logan, do I need the locking bolt for this? Can you tell?" he asked, showing the paper to the younger man who, he was certain, was having a good laugh at his frustration.
He'd had this great idea to build a shelf. Just a shelf. How hard could it be? He'd built lots of things.
Clearly he'd never built anything in Sweden.
Jack sighed and picked the tool back up from the carpet in their flat.
"Logan, do I need the locking bolt for this? Can you tell?" he asked, showing the paper to the younger man who, he was certain, was having a good laugh at his frustration.
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"I genuinely am trying to work less," he said. "It's just hard to let go when it's been my whole life here."
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"I get it. It's fine, I'm not- I don't know- I'm not picking a fight," Logan shrugged.
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"I'm not...I think a dog would be good. I miss..."
He missed Linus more than he wanted to admit. He'd been Logan's dog, but he'd been so fond of him.
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"Yeah. No. Me too," Logan said awkwardly, falling silent. "Everything's so different now."
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"Yeah," he agreed, a weight settling directly in his heart.
"...It's good, though?"
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"Yeah," Logan replied. "I mean- Yeah, of course. I missed you, man. I missed... I dunno. I don't know, part of me feels like I'm still waking up."
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"I remember things all the time. Things I'd forgotten," he said. "It's like I've known you forever and have never met you at all, all at once."
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"Yeah. No, I- I remember stuff, but not everything. It's like reading my own story out of order- And there are, you know, pages missing and other bits edited in."
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"I get it," he nodded. When he'd started with the Time Agency, time travel had scrambled him for a while. He could understand exactly what it meant to piece lives back together.
"What kind of dog would you like?"
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"I don't know," Logan admitted. "A lab maybe? I don't know."
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"Labs are good dogs," he nodded. "You want to go to the pet shop today? We could swing in and get bowls and a bed. Be prepared for whenever we find one."
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"You're not worried we're getting ahead of ourselves? I'm not even sure I'm allowed to have pets," Logan pointed out. "Plus, it's a small place. I dunno, might not be great for a dog."
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"Are you trying to talk yourself out of what you want?" Jack asked.
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"Maybe, I don't know," Logan sighed.
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"Hm. Okay, how about this? We'll go buy dog stuff. Bed, crate, dishes. And then we will be prepared when the perfect dog appears. Deal?" Jack asked.
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"Yeah, okay," Logan agreed, though he was still worried about the flat being too small.
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"I like this idea," Jack said to himself, mostly. "You realize I'm not going to let you back out of this, right?"