Grey isn't uncapable of reading the silence at all. Kimi is not at all that hard to read, which is why he wonders at times why Kai fails at it so miserably. The man is capable of practically mesmerising a whole crowd at the bar but for some reason, he doesn't know how to handle his little brother, who he should know better than any of those people.
"Sometimes a home is a place where you come back to," he says quietly, ignoring what Kimi rattles on about the boat and Midnight. "And there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you say longer, sometimes you need to get away. I take the boat out with Aidan at least once a month, we might stay the night out there. Or a couple of nights. It's a way to even the score." To bring down the chaos and find peace.
Golden eyes flit from the engine to Grey, a mildly annoyed look crossing his face at the blatant disregard for the attempt of changing topic because honestly, would it kill the guy to let the bone go every now and then? Then he sighs and stares down at his hands again, no longer working on the engine as he quietly asks, "Is that score ever gonna be settled, though? Feels a bit like you're fighting an uphill battle, here."
To find peace in all the chaos. To make ends meet. To not just want to watch the town burn for all the pain that seems to constantly be brewed here.
"Not as long as someone doesn't do something about it," Grey shrugs. He puts down his tools for a moment and turns to look at Kimi. "I wasn't talking about that, though. I just mean that it's okay to want to get away. It's also okay to want to come back again."
He picks up a wrench that he suspects Kimi needs next and hands it to Kimi before he gets back to his work.
"Think I heard something like that before," Kimi huffs, shaking his head as he takes the wrench and digs into the engine once more. "Not sure I believe it any more now than I did the first time it got said."
Even so, he says after a long moment of working in silence, "... Thanks." For the reassurances, because Kimi's quite aware he can be very pessimistic and negative and that as such, sometimes he needs someone like Despil or Grey to tell him it's going to be otherwise. Used to be Kai he depended on for such comforting and vice versa.
"You're slow like that, aren't you?" Grey teases him with a hint of a curve at the corner of his mouth.
He doesn't hound Kimi about it, though. It doesn't do any good. Only pisses him off. Instead, he stands up and walks over to a fridge at the corner of the shop and draws open the door.
"Want a coke?" he asks over his shoulder. The conversation is over as long as Kimi wants it to be over. Grey isn't going to put him through more of that.
"Yeah, thanks," Kimi responds, watching after him for a moment before huffing, a small smile crossing his face as he shakes himself and gets back to work. Things used to be that easy with Kai... But maybe instead of feeling bitter about such things, now Kimi's starting to maybe think Grey's right and that just maybe things will turn out okay.
In time, of course, and not without some considerable effort from Kimi himself.
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"Sometimes a home is a place where you come back to," he says quietly, ignoring what Kimi rattles on about the boat and Midnight. "And there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you say longer, sometimes you need to get away. I take the boat out with Aidan at least once a month, we might stay the night out there. Or a couple of nights. It's a way to even the score." To bring down the chaos and find peace.
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Golden eyes flit from the engine to Grey, a mildly annoyed look crossing his face at the blatant disregard for the attempt of changing topic because honestly, would it kill the guy to let the bone go every now and then? Then he sighs and stares down at his hands again, no longer working on the engine as he quietly asks, "Is that score ever gonna be settled, though? Feels a bit like you're fighting an uphill battle, here."
To find peace in all the chaos. To make ends meet. To not just want to watch the town burn for all the pain that seems to constantly be brewed here.
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He picks up a wrench that he suspects Kimi needs next and hands it to Kimi before he gets back to his work.
"Some things will only get better with time."
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"Think I heard something like that before," Kimi huffs, shaking his head as he takes the wrench and digs into the engine once more. "Not sure I believe it any more now than I did the first time it got said."
Even so, he says after a long moment of working in silence, "... Thanks." For the reassurances, because Kimi's quite aware he can be very pessimistic and negative and that as such, sometimes he needs someone like Despil or Grey to tell him it's going to be otherwise. Used to be Kai he depended on for such comforting and vice versa.
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He doesn't hound Kimi about it, though. It doesn't do any good. Only pisses him off. Instead, he stands up and walks over to a fridge at the corner of the shop and draws open the door.
"Want a coke?" he asks over his shoulder. The conversation is over as long as Kimi wants it to be over. Grey isn't going to put him through more of that.
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"Yeah, thanks," Kimi responds, watching after him for a moment before huffing, a small smile crossing his face as he shakes himself and gets back to work. Things used to be that easy with Kai... But maybe instead of feeling bitter about such things, now Kimi's starting to maybe think Grey's right and that just maybe things will turn out okay.
In time, of course, and not without some considerable effort from Kimi himself.