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TEXT | un: huntsman

[dishearten]

fancy a drink?

( he's got other things in mind... it's just that a drink might make them easier. Emma probably knows him a little too well at this point, well enough that she'll smell what he's not saying (or at least, not saying yet). )

[sheriffing]

What are we drinking to?

[ the invitation wouldn't come via text unless he had a few things to sort out.]

[dishearten]

The future.

( which is a weird thing for a dead guy to say, truly, though Graham himself has genuinely started to believe in one. )

[sheriffing]

The future? Count me in.

[ for the drink or the future or both, since she can slide that in there.]

Are you looking forward to it?

[dishearten]

looking forward isn't something I'm used to, but... yes.

I think there is more I could do with my life. it's about time I started truly living it again.

[sheriffing]

Sounds like you've been doing a lot of thinking about this.

[ they've talked through possibilities before, but this sounds different; certain.]

[dishearten]

well, if nothing else, I've had plenty of time.

( years since his recruitment. months since their talk in a prison cell. )

[sheriffing]

I know.

It'd be dangerous, no matter how we did it.

[ heart magic always is.]

[dishearten]

at some point it becomes more dangerous to leave things as they are.

it is worth trying. whether it works or not.

[sheriffing]

You're sure?

[ she won't try to talk him down from it, but as the woman who loves him, she thinks she's well within her rights to be worried.]

[dishearten]

I am.

Are you not?

[sheriffing]

I'm worried. It's my job to worry, I love you.

[dishearten]

I wouldn't do something you were against, Emma, but I think we both know that I need to do this.

If I want a future, I can't keep on the way I have. Half living. Barely existing in any world that lacks magic.

If something starts to go wrong, we'll find something else. I don't intend to die to try and live. I promise you that.

[sheriffing]

You wouldn't do something I was against, and I wouldn't be against something you need to do. You know that.

[ at least, she hopes he does. it's a lot of emotion to cram into a text.]

Good, because I'm not going to let you die. But living, feeling in a way you haven't in years? That'll hurt, too.

[if anyone would know that, it's Emma Swan. she spent half of her life trying not to feel the things that could hurt her.]

[dishearten]

I do know that.

( it's funny, text sort of puts them on an even playing field, pulls intonation out of the equation and just leaves the facts.

and she's right, he knows she'd never stop him from something he needed to do. and Graham thinks she knows that both of them need this, if that future they hope for is going to happen. )

I know it will. I think a part of me wasn't sure it was worth it, for far too long. There was once a deputy that told me that feeling nothing was a good option when everything you felt... ah, what was it?

blows? it sounded very American.

( Emma definitely does not need tone of voice to know in this instance that he's teasing her. )

[sheriffing]

I was raised in America. The real question is, how are you so Irish?

[ were those Irish wolves who raised you, Graham?]

[dishearten]

there were many dialects in the forest. I can't rightly say where I got mine.

( abandoned by his parents and everything bUT ANYWAY )

as much as feeling might suck, that's one side of the coin. I'll have to learn to manage. It won't be easy, but I want to.

[sheriffing]

It won't be easy, but you won't have to do it alone.

[ they've fought their way through the darkness before, they can do it again.]

[dishearten]

of that I am sure.

you make me happy even without a heart. having one should not change that.