“that budget issue’s been handled.” perhaps his counterparts over in the house had been weighed down by whatever trauma had resurfaced- they had sat shell shocked across the table after he’d demanded they come in, with his own draft- the big asks they still pushed back against, the smaller edits they were too tried, too exhausted by the last week, to notice. theo looked down his list- they had gone over the majority of it. “what’s next?” if she couldn’t think of anything, angelica would have something for him. there was the other thing he’d prefer not to bring it up entirely, because while a lot of leia’s life was, unfortunately, theo’s business, he’d never wanted to be involved with it- that’s how things got messy. and he had succeeded for the first few months of the job, until recently. “also, jacen’s been staying at my house- i figure you know what’s going on there, that’s probably not my business-,” he added, as if it were another item on his notepad, hoping he could bring it up and then leave it at that. “but my mum would’ve wanted to know where i was after something like last week.”