Re: Travis/Thomas
Travis laughed. "Not exactly what I was saying, but sure, you're welcome. I meant when you're starving and food is too much of an expectation, nothing else really seems worth expecting."
He turned toward Thomas. "Wow, did we just agree on something? Because it sounds like we just might have." Okay so Thomas didn't come out and say it, but there was no argument about his life and expectations, so Travis was taking that for agreement.
"And you've lived up to their expectations, right?" Travis asked. "You never did anything to upset them?" From what Dom has said, Thomas had done the opposite, rebelling like some teenager, except that he was a man and not a kid. "I don't have much experience with real parents, but I've had lots of foster parents, and most of them are happy that I am happy. I'm healthy, have a good job and I enjoy life. That's enough for them. How can it not be for your own parents? Why would they rather see you unhappy?"
He smirked. "We'll play that game again, or I'll try and you can avoid the question. Tell me one thing that your parents would expect from you tonight, and don't say that you stay clean, because I will shoot you," he added. That wasn't an expectation; that was common sense. "Something that they expect and you think it's stupid or that you wouldn't do if it weren't for them."