icymagic:
Did she want to know? Simone wasn’t entirely sure. Having a name on the page was hard enough but it may as well be better. She could meet the man, let him know that she didn’t like marriage without telling him why. Maybe even scare him enough that she could be sure history wouldn’t repeat itself. “Putting a face to a name is always a good thing to be able to do.”
It’s with bated breath that he waits to discover what her answer is. Once he’s aware she answers in the affirmative; Clark searches his brain for a good way of letting the news break gently, choosing to slip his envelope onto the bar, his name displayed for all who were close and enough and desperate enough to inspect it, to see. “Snap.” He murmurs after a second or two of silence spreading between them, it was weird how everybody else in the bar had seemingly gone quiet, even if that wasn’t accurate. He’d blocked everything else out, now.









