[Situations like this weren't new to the brothers. Maybe not exactly like this, no, but close enough that the differences seem purely cosmetic to him. Interdimensional travel, psychological perogatives, the existential comingling of regret and repetition and fixing.
They'd been here before, the two of them. Jake's sure they would be here again. So then why did the brittle, insistent way Finn held onto him feel so... new? Jake grows a little bigger instinctively, both to give Finn more to hold onto and grant himself the room to get a better look at the kid.]
That's my line, dude. [He frowns, genuine concern creeping up past his perpetual, purposeful chill.] What're you talking about? You didn't leave me, bro.
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They'd been here before, the two of them. Jake's sure they would be here again. So then why did the brittle, insistent way Finn held onto him feel so... new? Jake grows a little bigger instinctively, both to give Finn more to hold onto and grant himself the room to get a better look at the kid.]
That's my line, dude. [He frowns, genuine concern creeping up past his perpetual, purposeful chill.] What're you talking about? You didn't leave me, bro.
[He was the one who left. Right?]