Re: carriage house - michael and atticus
"Fun," he said, in a tone that implied it was not, in fact, fun.
Oh, Michael knew it was sad, it was just easier to be sad if sad was a joke. He could laugh at himself if he became the footnote in a larger absurdity. It made his own failings small, and his misfortunes insignificant in the larger scheme of things. If asked whether he really thought another marriage was in his future, he would have said no. A decade without a real relationship and then an explosively failed marriage that left one dead? Yeah, that didn't bode real well for his romantic future.
"A girl can dream," he said, saluting Atticus with the mouth of the empty bottle. "Maybe they'll do a reality show to pick the new CEO. Who's the Maddest of Them All. I should be in TV, that's a great idea. Alton Brown could host. Different experiments every week, and the contestants have to come up with a way to kill people with them plus a great PR spin for when they go off the rails."
"She is," he said. It didn't trouble Michael that he had first met Janus when he was a he. He was pretty much straight all the way down despite some earnest yearning for Christian Bale in college (dreamy). Christopher Nolan had poisoned his mind from an early age. "This is the part where you tell me it's a super bad idea, I'm betting. By the way, why do I need to stay away, exactly? She said to tell me that, right?