Pico, Day 21

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Here's today's post for your snippets, comments, thoughts.

Stay cool (or warm where appropriate)!

Comments

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

And I've passed the point I'd got to before. It's all new words from now on. Rupert is warming up in front of a fire, after the beginnings of a serious conversation with Edward -- who is now reporting back to Grandmama while Christophe checks on Rupert:

"He's not my real father." Rupert's words sounded sulky even to his own ears, but he wasn't going to hide his feelings from someone who seemed to like Quinn almost as much as he did.

"Does that bother you?" Christophe switched his pint glass of Guinness to his left hand, and retrieved a perfectly ordinary looking hand-rolled cigarette from behind his right ear.

"It should, shouldn't it?" Rupert thought about the conversation in the car. Papa hadn't spoken to him since then, even handing over the bag of dry clothes wordlessly. "It bothers him."

"My father wasn't around much when I was growing up," Christophe said around a mouthful of cigarette smoke. "He turned up after Ma died, and took my kid brother back to Ireland with him."

"Did that bother you?"

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Excellent on passing the bit that you'd got to. Things sound tough for Rupert here, though Christophe seems to be handling it well.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Christophe has experience of helping teenagers through family crises.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Hooray for forging onwards into new territory!

This is a huge development. It's interesting that Rupert thinks it should bother him, but it doesn't sound like it actually does.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Rupert's bothered by a lot of what's going on around him, but he's still processing it.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Kudos! That's a huge milestone! It sounds as if you've left a lot of very emotional stuff to the end.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks! There's a lot of emotional stuff to get through yet.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Interesting to see Rupert's reactions here - it sounds like he is still very confused by it all.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Rupert is certainly finding the whole thing rather bewildering.