burn between us
"That's what I do. You do the charging-into-danger part and I do the worrying-about-it part and we've divided the labor very efficiently."
He laughed — genuinely, the tension loosening slightly. "I love you."
"You'd better," she said. "Come home when you're done. Whenever done is. Come home."
"When it's done," he said. "Promise."
He hung up and sat for a moment in the quiet of the room, the laptop still glowing, the bad coffee cooling in its cup, and he thought about home and Cardiff and his mother's kitchen and all the distance between here and there, and then he put it away — carefully, the way you put away something valuable and fragile — and he went back to work.
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