thatmadbastard: (Let's be done with it.  QUICKLY.)
Guy Burgess ([personal profile] thatmadbastard) wrote 2011-10-03 12:39 am (UTC)

[Guy takes his own drink in unison, carelessly setting the glass down and giving it a push toward Jack's generous pour.]

It's difficult to find worthy friends, but once you've found them friendship is everything. It's all we've got.

[He drums a few cigarette stained fingers on the bar counter top, a syncopated and chipper beat of the opening piano on a little song he loves. It's a mostly unconscious thing; he doesn't realize he's tapping it out, though the melody is playing clearly in his head.]

Perhaps we'll one day find them utterly fucking worthless, or maybe they'll one day decide to go and smash it all up. It doesn't matter.

[And to him, it really doesn't. Kim and Anthony may one day decide he's too much of a liability and burn him to the Centre in Moscow. One day, perhaps, he'll be dragged behind the iron curtain and forgotten about. Until then, they're the only thing on this sorry godforsaken earth he can trust.]

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