Hardison doesn't know what he expected. Or he half-expected it, someone else running into the weird memory... thing, he could see that upsetting Parker for sure. He just didn't expect he'd hear anyone ran into that memory.
Metaphorically speaking, it knocks the wind out of him. Gums up the works.
He wouldn't wish knowing what it was like on anybody. Including himself, because he sure as hell doesn't have some martyr complex about it. Not on anyone all-around, the dark and the panic and the uncomfortable built-up warmth--
And maybe it doesn't help exactly, the tight squeeze, but it doesn't not help. It's Parker and he's not alone, which is what got him through it in the first place, and if he's with her then she's not alone with it, either. Hardison flounders with it, a little, trying to get his brain back in motion, figure out what to say. ]
I'm sorry. [ In a general sense, a sorry you have to know that now sense. That's somewhere to land. That's something. ] I, uh.
[ A swallow, a shaky exhale. ]
I remembered something of yours, too. Pretty sure.
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Hardison doesn't know what he expected. Or he half-expected it, someone else running into the weird memory... thing, he could see that upsetting Parker for sure. He just didn't expect he'd hear anyone ran into that memory.
Metaphorically speaking, it knocks the wind out of him. Gums up the works.
He wouldn't wish knowing what it was like on anybody. Including himself, because he sure as hell doesn't have some martyr complex about it. Not on anyone all-around, the dark and the panic and the uncomfortable built-up warmth--
And maybe it doesn't help exactly, the tight squeeze, but it doesn't not help. It's Parker and he's not alone, which is what got him through it in the first place, and if he's with her then she's not alone with it, either. Hardison flounders with it, a little, trying to get his brain back in motion, figure out what to say. ]
I'm sorry. [ In a general sense, a sorry you have to know that now sense. That's somewhere to land. That's something. ] I, uh.
[ A swallow, a shaky exhale. ]
I remembered something of yours, too. Pretty sure.