Sam doesn't have to get the full picture to get an idea of who Damon means - the girl that Sam's seen permeating throughout Damon's head, the one who fills his world. It pulls at something in Sam, because he knows something of how that feels when so much of you is wrapped up in someone else, in the sound of their laughter and the feeling that you can do anything with them by your side.
When you stop being able to find a reason, after they're gone. But somehow he doesn't think he has to tell Damon the danger of letting one person be your reason for something, and he understands what Damon actually says just as much.
You can live through pretty much anything if you stop thinking about it.
There's a hum of agreement tinged with a faint note of apology, and Sam files it away for later to ask if Damon actually does need to eat something. For the moment, he pulls his mind away, counts his breathing and curls his fingers around the challenge coin in his pocket, using his own distraction techniques as he reroutes his attention elsewhere.
He sinks down deeper, feeling along the roots of Damon's shields, and this time when he finds a bare spot buried somewhere deep in the back of Damon's mind - he doesn't so much press as seep in. ]
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Sam doesn't have to get the full picture to get an idea of who Damon means - the girl that Sam's seen permeating throughout Damon's head, the one who fills his world. It pulls at something in Sam, because he knows something of how that feels when so much of you is wrapped up in someone else, in the sound of their laughter and the feeling that you can do anything with them by your side.
When you stop being able to find a reason, after they're gone. But somehow he doesn't think he has to tell Damon the danger of letting one person be your reason for something, and he understands what Damon actually says just as much.
You can live through pretty much anything if you stop thinking about it.
There's a hum of agreement tinged with a faint note of apology, and Sam files it away for later to ask if Damon actually does need to eat something. For the moment, he pulls his mind away, counts his breathing and curls his fingers around the challenge coin in his pocket, using his own distraction techniques as he reroutes his attention elsewhere.
He sinks down deeper, feeling along the roots of Damon's shields, and this time when he finds a bare spot buried somewhere deep in the back of Damon's mind - he doesn't so much press as seep in. ]