Dan knows Price is there not long after Price arrives; he's trying to block out having to face his memories, but he's too paranoid to truly let his guard down. His eyes snap open and he lowers his hands from his ears.
"Hey. Just...was hoping if I couldn't see it it'd go away." Which obviously didn't work.
"Goddamnit," the girl sitting on the blanket says, flapping a developing polaroid photograph in her hand. "That meteor didn't take either."
"Language," Dan in the memory says, laying back on the blanket with his head cradled in his arms, looking smug.
"You swear all the time," she says. The real Dan keeps looking at Price, not at the memory he's still trying to ignore gamboling around him.
Price has made efforts to understand him, same as Dan's made efforts to understand Price and arrange the constellation of behaviors and details he's noticed alongside the reputation to try and make sense of him. As much as Dan hates it, hates transparency in any form, and as much as he doesn't trust Price not to weaponize Dan's past the next time Price decides to lash out at someone, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world that Price sees a little more of the inner workings of the guy who's committed himself to being Price's friend.
It's not a gesture of trust, because it isn't willing. Dan wouldn't willingly share any of this. But it's something.
Dan turns to Price. "So, the last time this happened, where we all saw each others' memories, I had a gentleman's agreement with the other guy that we'd never, ever talk about it again to each other or anyone else. That a bargain you'd be willing to make with me?"
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"Hey. Just...was hoping if I couldn't see it it'd go away." Which obviously didn't work.
"Goddamnit," the girl sitting on the blanket says, flapping a developing polaroid photograph in her hand. "That meteor didn't take either."
"Language," Dan in the memory says, laying back on the blanket with his head cradled in his arms, looking smug.
"You swear all the time," she says. The real Dan keeps looking at Price, not at the memory he's still trying to ignore gamboling around him.
Price has made efforts to understand him, same as Dan's made efforts to understand Price and arrange the constellation of behaviors and details he's noticed alongside the reputation to try and make sense of him. As much as Dan hates it, hates transparency in any form, and as much as he doesn't trust Price not to weaponize Dan's past the next time Price decides to lash out at someone, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world that Price sees a little more of the inner workings of the guy who's committed himself to being Price's friend.
It's not a gesture of trust, because it isn't willing. Dan wouldn't willingly share any of this. But it's something.
Dan turns to Price. "So, the last time this happened, where we all saw each others' memories, I had a gentleman's agreement with the other guy that we'd never, ever talk about it again to each other or anyone else. That a bargain you'd be willing to make with me?"