"I didn't even appreciate how fucking incredible her baking was until months later, when I had a chance to try others'. Not unrelatedly, most people don't appreciate what I do for them, and yes I'm talking about the coffee thing when I say that. Maybe they get it later, but a lot of the time they don't think it's worth it. I disagree."
It doesn't take a supergenius to know he's thinking of Dave when he says this, but he's also thinking about Jake, about Jane and Roxy and even Rose.
Well. Rose appreciated it. But he's willing to concede the extensuating circumstances in that case mean it may not "count."
Even his other selves never appreciate it from him, or vice versa. And yet he's almost always right. Why is that?
He can answer that one.
No one likes the truth.
No one likes the truth because it's hard, because it sucks and it's painful and it's difficult.
It takes an awful lot of work, too. And god fucking forbid he do the hard part for them. But he does. He does the understanding and the knowing so they don't have to.
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It doesn't take a supergenius to know he's thinking of Dave when he says this, but he's also thinking about Jake, about Jane and Roxy and even Rose.
Well. Rose appreciated it. But he's willing to concede the extensuating circumstances in that case mean it may not "count."
Even his other selves never appreciate it from him, or vice versa. And yet he's almost always right. Why is that?
He can answer that one.
No one likes the truth.
No one likes the truth because it's hard, because it sucks and it's painful and it's difficult.
It takes an awful lot of work, too. And god fucking forbid he do the hard part for them. But he does. He does the understanding and the knowing so they don't have to.
All anyone has to do--
All he ever asks--
Is that they trust him.
And is that really so hard?