They fall into line beside each other, numbers one and three going to report for debriefing. "Not great," Luther answers. Where Allison has her dayjob to eat up some daytime hours, Luther spends more of his time in the government facilities, weathering meetings and maps and files and tracking the spread of seditious activity. Last month had been quiet, but this month... isn't.
"Porter's still going strong and there's no damned sign of it letting up. We're not really equipped for an influx of this size."
Just as they notice everything about each other, he sees her slowing her steps to account for him, and Luther reaches out and rests his fingers against the small of her back, just for a moment, as if he's helping guide her steps through the wreckage of the highway. But it's just an excuse to touch her, a wordless gesture of appreciation for the kindness. They're a private pair, close-lipped about their personal lives, but little pieces still slip out in a way they never had back home.
A decade is a long time.
He glances to the side, smirks over Allison's comment about her nails. (They're looser, freer, more vicious and more quick to laugh in this world than they once were.) "How do they handle it on set when you come in with worse injuries? Just create a nightmare for your makeup crew?"
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"Porter's still going strong and there's no damned sign of it letting up. We're not really equipped for an influx of this size."
Just as they notice everything about each other, he sees her slowing her steps to account for him, and Luther reaches out and rests his fingers against the small of her back, just for a moment, as if he's helping guide her steps through the wreckage of the highway. But it's just an excuse to touch her, a wordless gesture of appreciation for the kindness. They're a private pair, close-lipped about their personal lives, but little pieces still slip out in a way they never had back home.
A decade is a long time.
He glances to the side, smirks over Allison's comment about her nails. (They're looser, freer, more vicious and more quick to laugh in this world than they once were.) "How do they handle it on set when you come in with worse injuries? Just create a nightmare for your makeup crew?"