InsaneJournal

Who: Regulus and Merlin
What: Commiserating together over their dreadful situations
When: Earlier today
Where: Merlin’s magic shop
Rating/Warnings: Start low, they are just talking for now.
Status: In progress, closed


For the fourth time in while focusing on restocking this particular shelf Regulus dropped another deck of cards. He reached down to retrieve it and his fingers, from lack of peace, sleep and food these last two weeks failed to grip the thing properly and he had to try again. The second time he was able to bring the thing back up to the hook where he placed the item. He paused then to pinch and the bridge of his nose between his eyes in an effort to relieve some of the pressure that had taken residency in multiple areas of his skull.

That was the last deck and he returned to the box to pull out the next item.

“Any more boxes of this that need to go out?” he called back to Merlin. They didn’t talk much about what was going on these last two weeks, most particularly the last week, or how they were dealing with being ‘fathers’ to children (teenager in the case of James). They both understood the other was having a difficult time of it, and they’d simply fallen into a routine of trying to stay at work as long as possible.