December 31st, 1887. Baxter's Promotion Party.
@"Elsie Beauregard"Usually he spent New Year's Eve with Eli. Almost every turn of the year for the past several, Cash knew that he had spent New Year's Eve with Eli. But now Eli was dead and he was standing at the edge of this party, fiddling with his cufflinks. There was a distinct ache in his chest instead of the stark nothing he had felt recently. This wasn't, really, an improvement.
Eli was dead and there was almost no physical evidence that they had ever been together, except for Cash's tattered memories and the objects he hid in his room. But now, tonight, he knew that he ought to be with Eli and instead he was here, increasingly miserable and pretending that he cared about who ran the hospital. It didn't matter. None of it really mattered.
He was probably looking increasingly dismal when he saw her, and remembered, far-off, that he ought to be talking to her. Cash fixed his face in a more neutral expression and sidled up to Miss Abercrombie.
"Miss Abercrombie," he said, "Fancy seeing you here."
This wasn't right. He ought to be with Eli.
Eli was dead and there was almost no physical evidence that they had ever been together, except for Cash's tattered memories and the objects he hid in his room. But now, tonight, he knew that he ought to be with Eli and instead he was here, increasingly miserable and pretending that he cared about who ran the hospital. It didn't matter. None of it really mattered.
He was probably looking increasingly dismal when he saw her, and remembered, far-off, that he ought to be talking to her. Cash fixed his face in a more neutral expression and sidled up to Miss Abercrombie.
"Miss Abercrombie," he said, "Fancy seeing you here."
This wasn't right. He ought to be with Eli.
MJ made this!