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He'd always been bracing for this day, after all. He'd always known that he'd lose everything again. Nothing as good as Casey could be allowed to stay in his life.

I am in no rush to get to the future, because the present, for once, is very, very good.

Maybe he could learn to move forward without the assumption that a tragedy was around every corner.

When you're warm, it's easy to forget what it was to be cold.

Maybe once you knew what the ripping feeling of sorrow was like, it was harder to appreciate anything but that, always knowing that it would come back eventually.

And when the inevitable moment of fucking things up come now, it hurts less if you're drunk.

He could look Casey in the face now. Well, at least for a second. If he looked too hard, he realized Casey's dimples made him weak.

Grant was about as subtle as a brickbat as he slid off the edge of the bed to sit on the floor. Casey couldn't decide whether he wanted to laugh or cry. Sitting down close to him had been a test- of course it had- of how close Casey could get. And the slow slide to the floor was one hell of an answer.