"I know." But he didn't, really. He was Catholic; guilt was his birthright. He was no killer by temperament, and he'd hold onto this for the rest of his life.
"She would have been eighteen, end of the month," he said. It seemed ridiculously young from his lofty perch of twenty-and-a-half -- especially when he considered that they likely would have had a child or two by now.
He tried to shake it off. "You've heard my best Mercutio stories," Romeo said, trying for a teasing tone and almost succeeding. "The rest implicate me in some way.
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Date: 2011-07-16 03:04 am (UTC)"She would have been eighteen, end of the month," he said. It seemed ridiculously young from his lofty perch of twenty-and-a-half -- especially when he considered that they likely would have had a child or two by now.
He tried to shake it off. "You've heard my best Mercutio stories," Romeo said, trying for a teasing tone and almost succeeding. "The rest implicate me in some way.