It's a good idea. [Minato goes about carefully spreading glue along the back of his construction paper and then affixing it to the page, pressing it in place and holding it there patiently.]
I never used to understand the point of things like this, but... I think I do now. Proof that it happened when you need a reminder. [That something good occurred. Minato can't help wondering if somewhere out there there's pictures of him and his parents, but it's an abstract thought, without meaning. Just some distant notion that has no bearing in reality.
A moment later, quietly,] We can't control if we disappear, and I'm worried about Ken-kun if I did. He'd need something like this.
[Once again, Jaime finds himself biting his tongue, feeling a sudden, unexpected sadness despite the cheery holiday activity. He could say a lot of things here. If you died, more people than Ken would be upset perhaps, or maybe he's already lost you twice, or even he'll need a lot more than a scrapbook.
Or, of course, he could tell Minato that Jaime had lost him once before he'd ever gotten the chance to get to know him, but now he's not so sure how he'd be able to keep up trying to take care of everyone without his help, let alone the loss that he would feel. He prefers not to think about any of his friends going missing.
So instead, he says,] We'll look at that as a worst-case-scenario kind of thing. For now, I'm gonna assume that you're not going anywhere. And until then, we'll make sure to give Ken enough to fill this whole scrapbook. [Then, because with Minato, he can't quite deflect everything, he adds on,] And now, he's got plenty of people who'll take care of him.
[Even if both he and Minato went missing, Jaime thinks that Ken would be okay in this world. In Minato's world? Jaime still remembers that feeling when Ken got ported out, that strange moment of he can't be gone; he still needs me. But they'll cross that bridge if and when they get to it.
He smoothes down the page of the scrapbook and grumbles,] But if we don't get this right, then if I go missing again, he'll just remember me as that guy who can't freakin' draw a straight line with a ruler.
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I never used to understand the point of things like this, but... I think I do now. Proof that it happened when you need a reminder. [That something good occurred. Minato can't help wondering if somewhere out there there's pictures of him and his parents, but it's an abstract thought, without meaning. Just some distant notion that has no bearing in reality.
A moment later, quietly,] We can't control if we disappear, and I'm worried about Ken-kun if I did. He'd need something like this.
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Or, of course, he could tell Minato that Jaime had lost him once before he'd ever gotten the chance to get to know him, but now he's not so sure how he'd be able to keep up trying to take care of everyone without his help, let alone the loss that he would feel. He prefers not to think about any of his friends going missing.
So instead, he says,] We'll look at that as a worst-case-scenario kind of thing. For now, I'm gonna assume that you're not going anywhere. And until then, we'll make sure to give Ken enough to fill this whole scrapbook. [Then, because with Minato, he can't quite deflect everything, he adds on,] And now, he's got plenty of people who'll take care of him.
[Even if both he and Minato went missing, Jaime thinks that Ken would be okay in this world. In Minato's world? Jaime still remembers that feeling when Ken got ported out, that strange moment of he can't be gone; he still needs me. But they'll cross that bridge if and when they get to it.
He smoothes down the page of the scrapbook and grumbles,] But if we don't get this right, then if I go missing again, he'll just remember me as that guy who can't freakin' draw a straight line with a ruler.