Bill's response isn't surprising, the way he says how Tom doesn't deserve the right to privacy, the tone in his voice. It makes a small smile tug at her lips, because he's still so much the boy that she had met years ago. The boy that was so brave, the boy she followed into Neibolt without a second thought. It's good to know that, despite everything that has happened and everything they all forgot for so long, he's still Bill beneath it all.
"It's not that easy," she says with a small sigh, her smile dry for a moment. "But, you're right. He doesn't."
He never did, really. It's embarrassing, to be as old as she is and still be haunted by the same shit that she had escaped when she left Derry as a teenager, but it was like falling in quicksand. Just when she would find enough resolve to leave, he would find a way to drag her back in. One time things had gotten bad enough that she was sure she wouldn't survive to see fourty, but here she is. And she had survived not only Tom, but Pennywise as well. If that's not a sign that she needs to start fresh, she doesn't know what is.
The tap of the cigarettes makes her smile again, offering him the pack. She hadn't been sure if he smoked but, quite honestly, she had also forgotten about her purpose for walking out here.
"If you don't mind, that'd be great. Being on the same coast will be nice. I think 27 years was plenty of time between us, right?" She doesn't know if they'll forget again the moment that they cross the town's limits, but god, she hopes that won't be the case.
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"It's not that easy," she says with a small sigh, her smile dry for a moment. "But, you're right. He doesn't."
He never did, really. It's embarrassing, to be as old as she is and still be haunted by the same shit that she had escaped when she left Derry as a teenager, but it was like falling in quicksand. Just when she would find enough resolve to leave, he would find a way to drag her back in. One time things had gotten bad enough that she was sure she wouldn't survive to see fourty, but here she is. And she had survived not only Tom, but Pennywise as well. If that's not a sign that she needs to start fresh, she doesn't know what is.
The tap of the cigarettes makes her smile again, offering him the pack. She hadn't been sure if he smoked but, quite honestly, she had also forgotten about her purpose for walking out here.
"If you don't mind, that'd be great. Being on the same coast will be nice. I think 27 years was plenty of time between us, right?" She doesn't know if they'll forget again the moment that they cross the town's limits, but god, she hopes that won't be the case.