"Woah..." Will is sufficiently impressed by the idea of being the last anything. He has mental images of grim, grizzled fur trappers riding polar bears through the woods. Speaking of: "Do you ever see any bears? Or, um...moose?" He's forgotten most of his anxiety, scooting forward in his chair, eyes very wide as Sam describes the Snow Castle. "Magic...potato." There's a wild, sleep-deprived sort of giggle that Will quickly swallows. "Wow. How do they make it? The castle? Do they have to get...bulldozers and cranes and things?"
And then she asks the question, and Will's expression closes down like shuttered windows in a storm. He can't tell her "no" -- he can't tell any adult "no", it's not how he's wired, but the words catch in his throat. "Went to a doctor," he says finally, halting, watching her for the shift in expression, the immediate sympathy, the awkwardness every single adult has around a sick kid. Nobody he's met knows how to interact with him once it comes out that he's different, that there's an unknown, fragile aspect to him. They overcorrect themselves, treat him too carefully, make excuses to get away. Nobody knows how to deal with him. He'd only met this particular woman minutes before, but Will's already preparing for the crushing disappointment of driving yet another person away.
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Date: 2017-12-10 07:35 am (UTC)And then she asks the question, and Will's expression closes down like shuttered windows in a storm. He can't tell her "no" -- he can't tell any adult "no", it's not how he's wired, but the words catch in his throat. "Went to a doctor," he says finally, halting, watching her for the shift in expression, the immediate sympathy, the awkwardness every single adult has around a sick kid. Nobody he's met knows how to interact with him once it comes out that he's different, that there's an unknown, fragile aspect to him. They overcorrect themselves, treat him too carefully, make excuses to get away. Nobody knows how to deal with him. He'd only met this particular woman minutes before, but Will's already preparing for the crushing disappointment of driving yet another person away.