Tense: Past, Future, Present Perfect
5 parts Complete MatureSequel to All Our Histories Laid Bare
When silence finally fills the air, punctuated only by their soft and simultaneous inhales and exhales, he voices the question Bohn has been dreading. "What do you want to do?"
They've talked about it before, the fact that Bohn hadn't been given a choice the last time. Even if he had he would have gone through with it, but the lack of options had always made him sick, left him cold. It's the same now, and he knows that Duen already knows that, too. Guilt, though, tastes like bile on his tongue anyways. Duen's still in school, has three years of interning at the clinic left ahead of him. They'd had a plan, and this wasn't it.