[ A rough chuckle at that but his eyes are soft around the edges. Even if it's an expression Matt can't physically see, he's traced the shape of it more times than even John can count so far. How did they manage to get this far, the two of them? ]
Yeah, you'd know wouldn't you, chief?
[ Surprisingly, it's easy for John to go down with hits like that. Body shots always send him crumbling. Those taps to the heart do him in no matter how hard he tries. ]
Good man.
[ Not many. Annie, maybe but she doesn't want anything to do with the likes of him anymore. Ran on back to her convent. Matt mentions his father as they walk and John's heart does something strange in his chest.
How do you tell a person you've seen what could very well be the ghost of their loving old man hanging about? John may not know much about how good families like that work but he knows caring when he sees it. He knows the bloke hangs about cause he feels like he still needs to. That isn't on Matt, though. ]
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Yeah, you'd know wouldn't you, chief?
[ Surprisingly, it's easy for John to go down with hits like that. Body shots always send him crumbling. Those taps to the heart do him in no matter how hard he tries. ]
Good man.
[ Not many. Annie, maybe but she doesn't want anything to do with the likes of him anymore. Ran on back to her convent. Matt mentions his father as they walk and John's heart does something strange in his chest.
How do you tell a person you've seen what could very well be the ghost of their loving old man hanging about? John may not know much about how good families like that work but he knows caring when he sees it. He knows the bloke hangs about cause he feels like he still needs to. That isn't on Matt, though. ]
He was a boxer, wasn't he?