Who: Bill, George, Molly (NPC) When: Tuesday, 30 September Where: The Burrows What: Bill & George get to talk Rating: PG? Status: semi-private/incomplete
Bill wondered when he would stop feeling overwhelmed by his mother's greetings. Molly had finally let him grow up at home, accepting him as an adult, but this reminded him all too well of the days in the war when she had clung to her family as if they might disappear at any moment.
Of course. One had, he had to give her that.
So he let her fuss over him, let her worry out loud about the children that were gone, and his children left behind. He accepted the tea, and the biscuits, and the seat at the kitchen table, standing again only when he heard the door open. He could see George -- older than the one he remembered, more lines in the face, but still George. And that face was welcome indeed. "George! Come on back, there's tea."