If Ford was taking this seriously — which it very much seemed like he was — then they were going to want to talk pretty regularly. And this was better than the Ministry finding out about it, because if the Ministry found out about it then his family would find out about it, and if his family found out about it he was liable to have someone poking around inside his skull again. Or Lucius would just kill him, but — if he'd decided that he didn't want to die, then he couldn't rely on that as an option. Fuck.
"That sounds reasonable," Cash said, "We can figure out a schedule. Or something." Maybe he could trick himself into working on this if he thought about it as a puzzle, rather than something horrible rattling around inside him — if they found the right steps, maybe he would feel a little less dead all the time, and then there would be no more weird magic.
"That sounds reasonable," Cash said, "We can figure out a schedule. Or something." Maybe he could trick himself into working on this if he thought about it as a puzzle, rather than something horrible rattling around inside him — if they found the right steps, maybe he would feel a little less dead all the time, and then there would be no more weird magic.

MJ made this!