[ Not usually or in fact ever. Unless you shoot his hat, in which case this pales in comparison. And sometimes, just sometimes, being able to communicate on a psychic level works very well for both of them. It saves Fraser from having to communicate using actual words, which is a good thing because forming them has become a problem.
Well, most words are a problem. Ray is undoing him piece by piece, and given the opportunity and enough focus to resolve the sentence without stuttering, he can't seem to resist being himself: ]
Other than the pack ice, you mean?
[ As if he didn't already know, as if he hadn't noticed. Decision time. He pressed his face against Ray's neck for a moment, breathed him in, then pulled himself back upright abruptly, releasing his partner's wrists as he went. Ray had given him a kind of patience, but they were a long way past any semblance of it now, or at least it was Fraser's that was running thin. Getting upright had been the only way to escape the lights dancing behind his eyelids, the static crackle of energy where skin touched skin, but now that he was here... It was time to make the choice. He licked his lips, and nodded almost imperceptibly at no question at all--at least not one spoken out loud. ]
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Well, most words are a problem. Ray is undoing him piece by piece, and given the opportunity and enough focus to resolve the sentence without stuttering, he can't seem to resist being himself: ]
Other than the pack ice, you mean?
[ As if he didn't already know, as if he hadn't noticed. Decision time. He pressed his face against Ray's neck for a moment, breathed him in, then pulled himself back upright abruptly, releasing his partner's wrists as he went. Ray had given him a kind of patience, but they were a long way past any semblance of it now, or at least it was Fraser's that was running thin. Getting upright had been the only way to escape the lights dancing behind his eyelids, the static crackle of energy where skin touched skin, but now that he was here... It was time to make the choice. He licked his lips, and nodded almost imperceptibly at no question at all--at least not one spoken out loud. ]