Theo: Your hands still…
Daniel: Still?
Theo: Shake.
Daniel: You’re repeating yourself.
Theo: I meant when you’re close.
Daniel: You still talk too much. After.
Theo: Only with you.
Daniel: Still.
Theo: You used to like it.
Daniel: I can’t help what I like.
Daniel: You ever see her?
Theo: Who?
Daniel: Theo, come on.
Theo: No.
Daniel: Why?
Theo: It’s a long road back.
Daniel: What’s stopping you?
Theo: We were kids. Seventeen.
Daniel: You’re not a kid anymore.
Theo: Eight years, Danny.
Daniel: But you’re her father.
Theo: She’s fine. She’s got a dad. Teaches her chess. Holds her hand in pictures.
Daniel: But she’s—
Theo: Better off. I’m good with being a cheque.
Daniel: They asked you for money?
Theo: I offered. Some debts just stay.
Daniel: She didn’t want to tell you.
Theo: I know.
Daniel: You said it was her husband’s idea. Said you had the right to know.
Theo: What’s your point?
Daniel: You always do this.
Theo: What do you want me to do, Danny? Drive out there?
Daniel: You’ve had two years to figure that out.
Theo: And what would that change? I can’t be the kind of man who keeps leaving.
Daniel: What’s that supposed to mean?
Theo: Danny—
Daniel: Don’t. You had a kid. While you were still screwing me in the dirt.
Theo: I didn’t know.
Daniel: You shouldn’t have—should’ve known better than to keep taking that night. The fuck am I left with now?
Theo: If only I'd waited a bit longer…reached for it sooner…But I didn’t think you’d follow. Still can’t believe it. One minute, we were in the lake, and I couldn’t...breathe. You against me. And then—and last night—
Daniel: Yeah, no.
Theo: Then why’d you hold on like that?
Daniel: You should’ve tried. Two years.
Theo: I thought—
Daniel: Yeah, I know what you thought. That silence can't break the mind.
Theo: I told you, she’s fine. The world would be better off if people realized they’re not half as important as they think. And I did try. I went after what mattered. Even when you—
Daniel: What?
Theo: All those scars, Danny.
Daniel: Yeah, well. I didn’t know how to look at you.
Theo: And now?
Daniel: You were right.
Theo: Hmmm?
Daniel: It really is easy to leave proof you were here.
Theo: Oh, Danny.
Daniel: Please don’t. I didn't mean—
Theo: I’d scrub the bone clean, if I could.
Daniel: What?
Theo: Erase it.
Daniel: You mean that night?
Theo: I mean her.
Daniel: No, you don’t.
Theo: Yeah, I really fucking do.
Theo: Did you hear about the quarry?
Daniel: What about it?
Theo: They flooded it. Turned it into a lake. Ducks nest there now. We could go. If you want.
Daniel: What for?
Theo: To see if it’s deep enough.
Daniel: You think that would fix anything?
Theo: No. But it might quiet it all down. And I like how honest your body is in water.
Daniel: So, noon?