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[fatherslove]

He was settling. He thought. Living with Eleanor was so different from constantly moving toward her, chasing her down, and before that, walking with her through the slowly decaying halls of Rapture in search of corpses, angels, blood... that could barely have been called living with. Life without needing to protect her. Just... life.

But it was happening. As with everything else, he was learning. They both were.

But sometimes he still needed time on his own, time to walk and think. So on a day when he had nowhere to be, and Eleanor was in school, he fed Eve and then took to the street and made his way to the park. Everything might be dead now, brown and gray and leafless, but he understood that it wouldn't always be that way, and if he was honest, he went there often now to look for a sign. The first green shoots. The first buds on the trees. Not reassurance. But something like it.

Watching life was what he did now. Watching life without needing to kill for it.

It felt good.

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[notfaking_it]

"Well, they're not very difficult," Lily replied, pretending to think about it, still smiling. "So, no, I don't think it's much of a problem. I promise there aren't very many rules to follow."

Especially not when it came to going on dates with Lily. In fact, if she thought about it, it had been a very long time since she'd gone on an official date at all. "Only if you're interested, of course," she added.

[fatherslove]

"I am," he said. And he was only a little surprised at the lack of hesitation. Uncertainty, yes, but... He was interested.

Even if he had no idea exactly what that meant.

"I think I would feel more comfortable if you decided where and when, though." She said no rules, and maybe there weren't formal ones... But he was still ready to follow her lead, at least for the moment.

[notfaking_it]

"I have a show this Friday and Saturday, so what about next weekend?" she asked, smiling over at him. She would have to find a good restaurant, she thought, somewhere Delta would be comfortable, and a movie was definitely out of the question, but she was sure she could come up with something else for them to do, something they would both enjoy.

"It'll be fun," she promised.

[fatherslove]

"I don't have anything else to do." For the first time, he wondered what Eleanor might think of this. Not that he imagined for a moment that she would disapprove of any of it, or feel jealous of his time, but... it was new.

New all around.

"Anyway, like I said." He smiled again, faintly. "I believe you."