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i know it's over (still i cling)

Summary:

He doesn't sleep the night she leaves.

Or, Saul after the breakup.

Notes:

I......do not know where this came from but it leaped into my brain fully formed and it would have been a crime not to write it down and make you all sad with me. If anything rewatching BCS is just contributing to the seasonal depression but I can't seem to give it up.

Title from I Know it's Over by The Smiths.

Enjoy!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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He doesn’t sleep the night she leaves. If he wakes up in the morning, she won’t be there, and everything will still be real and still hurt like hell.

 

Two days later, he decides she’ll be back. It’s just a fight; they’ve had those. They always work it out.

 

Three weeks later, he hasn’t heard from her, and he feels desperate for the first time. He works instead, the office a revolving door of people looking for the Saul Goodman touch.

 

Two and a half months later, he sees her across his desk, eyes carefully blank, sliding a sheaf of papers over. Dissolution of marriage. Her shirt is the same peachy colour as the sweater she was wearing the night everything crashed down. He hates himself for noticing.

 

He signs with a little more extravagant flair than usual, pretends not to notice the way her face crumples nearly imperceptibly when he tells her to have a nice life. Pretends not to notice the way Francesca cuts her eyes at him for it.

 

Truly, he does hope Kim has a nice life. It’s just bullshit that she didn’t think she could have it with him.

 

They’d made each other happy, once.

Notes:

I haven't read this interview directly, but according to Tumblr Bob Odenkirk said that he imagines Jimmy not believing Kim left for real, so he kept thinking she'd be back in a week or so, and then the weeks turned into months until she finally divorced him, and that made me so sad like Bob babe why would you say that do you want to kill us all? So anyway that's what inspired this.

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