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NEW BLOG! i remade so catch me over there now. all threads are being carried over, i just need a clean slate!!
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hi so i’m remaking
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sometimes spencer is oblivious to the things he says being viewed as “ weird “ yes but other times he is indeed very purposely trying to be a little shit
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i hold your hand and stare into your eyes and feel myself spilling over. ti amo. je t'adore. ich liebe dich. how do you say the feeling of a sucker punch, the smell of jasmine tea, the bright presence of a body, the magnetic swing of a person you are caught in - the awareness, always, of how close, of how far, of how full of need you are.
— a poet’s lack in speaking // r.i.d
#parents#❛ —— an eidetic memory. / visage.#❛ —— the only person in the whole world who calls me spence. / jj.#❛ —— he found a certain love with her. / baumom.
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if u look closely at scenes set in quantico or at local police stations spencer is often the only member of the team wearing a gun, hell if u look at the episode intros spencer’s the only one wearing a gun ( exhibit a & exhibit b ) and thinking back on s1′s “ without a gun on my belt i look like a teacher’s assistant “ and looking at all he’s been through it’s not surprising, it’s a security blanket ( and a reminder ) as well as making him feel like he looks like a more capable, adult member of the team.
#THIS IS THE TINIEST#MOST INSIGNIFICANT DETAIL#and yet#here we are#❛ —— the abyss looks into you. / headcanon.
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livedforwards / emily prentiss.
“i’ll teach you.” her voice is quiet against the hammering of the heart monitor, and to be properly heard she’d have to speak up, but this, this is just for her and him. “i will help you. if you trust me, listen to me.”
her thumb runs back and forth over his temple. her voice is still quiet, but the determination has been replaced by caution. every word she says has been chosen, very specifically. like it’s a story she’s told herself a thousand times, but has never come out of her mouth.
( that’s exactly what it is. )
“after doyle,” her hand stills, palm just resting on his cheek. “i woke up in a hospital with nothing to myself. not even my name. i couldn’t have JJ go back to my apartment, not even for clothes.” it hadn’t just been like death. it had been death, her life disintegrated. her voice is just on the unsettled side of steady. “everything i knew. everyone i knew. jj visited when she could. hotch. but the world i knew was gone. my family. my job. my life.”
she was alone. a silhouette in the shadow of the eiffel tower, a penciled sketch of a girl in glasgow.
and then –
hollow, nauseous, seeing the world in grayscale, a ghost in the bau room.
“this.” she taps a pointer finger to his chest. “i know that feeling. spencer, i know. not all of it, not what you went through.” there’s only one person who understands that, and emily is as concerned for her as she is for him. “but the rebuilding. i know rebuilding.”
( she didn’t do it right. she ignored it. she’d been accused once of running away and she can’t say it’s not what she did. there had been too many things to fac e head on. she’d rebuilt and tried to fit herself into her old life without adjusting, without accounting for the person she was.)
she knows how tightly he’s grabbing her hand. and she’d do nothing to change that, just presses her lips to their clasped hands. she puts the other back on his cheek, tips of her fingers brushing through his hair.
“i’m not going.” gentle. convinced. footsteps, though. she looks towards the door, calculates. takes the hand on his cheek and puts it quickly over his other hand. makes a face that says shh or shut up.
and just like that she’s got the heart rate monitor on her own finger and her hand still covering his. a blip and it evens out. panicked, still. convincingly panicked. because she is. but maybe convincingly the panicked of a man who’s spent the past four months in captivity, and not one who needs a nurse, or a sedative.
she doesn’t move either of her hands from where they’re clasped around either of his, the finger with the heart monitor tucked underneath his palm.
she looks up at the nurse; offers her most reassuring smile, and profiles the woman. young. eager to please. nervous, but not fresh out of school. they’re probably her first fbi agents, definitely her first case like this. good. emily can use that.
when she speaks, it’s with the smile of a friend and the voice of a unit chief.
“flashback. he’s okay now, but he doesn’t need more people. i’ll call you if he does.”
HE CAN FEEL THE POUND OF HIS HEARTBEAT. it’s hard and fast and loud , so loud in his ears. there’s the unwavering beep of hospital machinery and the unsteadiness of his breaths and one hand is a claw in the the hospital sheet that covers him and the other is clasped in hers so tight his knuckles are white and he can’t bring either to let go, to feel anything but the tight grip of panic unrelenting in his chest.
he nods his head and his gaze finds hers and he feels the brush of her skin against his temple, swallows thickly and tries to focus on that instead, the softness of her touch, kind and gentle ---------- tries to quiet the screaming, spinning in his mind.
“ okay, “ he says it with a voice quiet and uncertain, shaking and broken ----- but he believes her. if nothing else, he believes her, the woman who for the past four months has fought to get him back. to bring him home. him and garcia both. he believes her because she knows and there’s only one other person who does, one other person who bears the weight of their scars, one other person whose life’s been stolen as much as his and she’s been beside him through it all. she’s been there.
he never wanted her to be.
“ i'm sorry. “ and he is. he’s sorry she knows. he’s sorry that all those years ago he’d never understood. he’s sorry that now he does.
he blinks away more tears. his voice is raw and open. “ i tried to protect her. i tried to keep her safe. but i couldn’t. not forever. not from everything. “
but there’s certainty in her voice and before he can find comfort in that she’s slipping the heart monitor from his finger, sliding it onto her own with a look that screams don’t speak.
so he doesn’t.
the nurse is young. eager to please. likely craving validation. and she believes it. emily’s finger is tucked under his and the machine is still beeping loud and fast but not near so much as the pound in his heart. he forces his breathing even again and tries to smile something small and reassuring.
“ i’m okay, “ he says, and his voice wavers but it’s steadier than before, steadier because it’s been months, months of swallowing down feelings like poison and keeping them clasped like a fist in his chest. he’s done this before. he’ll do it again. work around the hammering and screaming of his soul inside his body. his mind spins and the world is blurring but he stays upright. he hardly moves.
and like that she’s gone, the echo of her shoes against polished floors all she leaves behind. he swallows thickly and turns his gaze again and this time his smile is realer. small and uncertain but realer. “ thank you. “ his hand squeezes hers. there’s no move to take the monitor back. his heart still beats fast, too fast, and he knows if a nurse comes again there will be no hiding it anymore. he will sleep, he’ll sleep because he’s tired and the weight of sedatives would drag him beneath the waves. he’ll sleep, and he’s not ready to go back yet. he’s not ready to see the dim bulb hanging above him or hear the weight of garcia’s sobs in his ears. he’s not ready.
“ for everything. “
#emily breaking EVERY SINGLE RULE for spencer#i'm UPSET#livedforwards#❛ —— interactions. / all.#❛ —— you’ll never be what is in your heart. / verse.
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i love spencer reid
#it is almost 2am#and this is my contribution#for the night#thank u nd goodnight#❛ —— meme.jpg / ooc.
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girlgifted / natalie reid.
@baugenius liked for a starter
Natalie watched on how many teaspoons of sugar that was being placed into her brother’s coffee before glancing up at him, grinning slightly. “Not going to add any more sugar, dear brother? Because I counted at least five.”
HE’S DUMPING SUGAR INTO COFFEE like his life depends on it. teaspoon after teaspoon ----- it’s settling at the bottom of his mug, syrupy and sweet. there’s a smile, and a glint of mischief in his eyes. “ maybe just ---------- one more, “ he says, and dumps in a spoonful and stirs the drink with a stubborn sort of finality he’s past perfected.
#TWIN BONDING#girlgifted#❛ —— your head is spinning because it's full of ghosts. / arc.#❛ —— interactions. / all.
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livedforwards / emily prentiss.
emily prentiss hasn’t been this happy in a very long time. it’s possible the last time she was this happy was before doyle had reentered her life. she’s relaxed, the line of her shoulders unset, the smile on her face easy to come by.
she thinks: we won, we won, we won.
this is a win. sitting here on the floor with her closest friend, who she’s been through far too much with. the both of them smiling and a laugh caught in her chest. she feels free, floating. she watches the both of them with laser focus; there’s not a second she wants to miss.
“oh, spencer.” emily grins, her hands clasped together. “she’s doing so well. can i?” her eyes go from marie to spencer again, hand reaching out. “marie, come see aunt emily.”
HAPPINESS FILLS THE AIR, a joy so palpable he swears he could reach out and touch it, hold it in his hands, cradle it to his chest. happiness fills the air and months ago it seemed it never would, months ago despair had clutched his soul like poison and he’d thought maybe, maybe he’d never feel the warm grasp of contentment again.
he’d been wrong.
marie laughs a laugh carefree and childlike and he feels his heart swell as her tiny hands fist in the fabric of his clothes, fingers raising to brush the fluff of brown hair from her eyes. it’s his, always messy, untamed no matter how he tries.
she turns at the sound of her own name and leaves him, crawls teetering over to where emily sits and babbles lightly, soft calls of bahbahbahbah that fill the air.
there’s a smile on his lips and pride in his chest and he’s free, so free. “ a part of me thought i’d never be happy again. after everything ---------- “ there’s a pause, and his hands rattle a toy soft in his hands. he watches her head turn and her eyes brown and wide and full of wonder find it. chuckles softly as he passes it off to her and her hands clasp around it and she brings it to her mouth. ( it’s taken awhile to get used to that, and an arsenal of sanitary wipes. ) “ but i am. i’m happy. she makes me happy. “
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CBS RENEWS CRIMINAL MINDS FOR A 14TH SEASON
The FBI procedural ended Season 13 with a jaw-dropping cliffhanger when Garcia was kidnapped by a serial killer cult and Reid had to choose between saving her life and taking down the cult’s new leader. The episode ended with Reid holding his target at gunpoint while Garcia was held in distress in the back of a black sedan.
Now the show will pick up with its 300th episode in the Season 14 premiere and provide a dramatic conclusion to the big cliffhanger. The team could use the big win after losing a member of the BAU in the Season 13 finale, almost being dismantled by Linda Barnes.
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i just saw infinity war and i will never EVER recover
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livedforwards / emily prentiss.
with his shoulder under her cheek, emily can feel him tense. she sees the white knuckled grip and thinks i should have lied. it’s not easy to lie to a profiler, but he’s tired. he’s on the edge of a breakdown. she hates that thought; it’s bitter and cruel and she’s lied to him before, too many times. when there were less lines on their faces and their bodies.
some of it was only just over a year ago.
part of emily – this vicious and selfish part - wants to take this team and bring them away. anywhere but paris, or rome. they can close their eyes and point at a map, or she’ll let matt choose. and in this ideal ( without the frantic beeping of a heart monitor ) she’ll watch them heal. they can spend their days in the mountains and she can watch the light come back into penelope and the shadows fade from spencer’s skin. she’ll banish the sunken hollows from her cheeks and they’ll all stop holding their breath.
she lets herself have just one moment to imagine them sunkissed, golden, laughing. to imagine something like that working.
and then she pushes herself, brutally, quickly, into reality.
“i know. i know it’s not.” he’s not looking at her; she lifts her cheek from his shoulder but does not let go of his hand, and every couple of seconds the heart monitor goes faster, quicker. she unfolds herself to be sitting where she’d been laying, so she has another free hand.
“spencer, breathe.” her fingers splay gently on his chest. she doesn’t look towards the door but she’s listening for footsteps, and suddenly - suddenly it is eight years ago, and she’s sitting in a chair beside aaron’s hospital bed. when everything had only started. and his eyes are closed and he’s breathing too fast and the heart monitor is screaming, and a nurse says you need to leave.
emily’s hand tightens on his. it’s still pressed to her chest.
no one’s dragging her away today.
“then i won’t let you.” the hand on his chest goes to rest on her cheek, tips of her fingers brushing his temple. “we’re nowhere near that yet. we have mandated leave, all of us. i will fight for you and penelope if i have to, but right now, right now, spencer, i need you to be okay. i need you to work on healing. i will not let you go down without a fight if that’s what you want.”
her thumb is rested on the top of his cheekbone. legs folded underneath her, emily stares down at him. spencer, who she knows has a heart as big as that brain of his, who sometimes turns to her and tells her things she knows he hasn’t told anyone else - headaches and his own disappointment. spencer, who she considers her brother, who she once dragged to a pub and tried to convince trainees was her twin. eleven years younger than her to the day. she aches.
“do you still trust me?”
HIS CHEST HEAVES AND SHUDDERS. his body shakes and he can hear the beep of his heart monitor in his ears, loud and fast and unsteady. he knows he’s teetering close to an edge. he knows with one push he’ll go toppling over and he’s not sure he’ll ever be able to claw his way back up again. he’s done it so many times and it feels like right now all the strength has been sucked and sapped from his body and all that’s left is something hollow and lifeless. it feels like right now he has nothing left, like he’s alive but his life’s been stolen and shattered nonetheless. it’s all broken pieces he doesn’t know how to mend.
he wants to be okay, and he wants to be strong ----- the word weak echoes in his ears like poison until it’s all he can hear, vicious and unrelenting. i’m not weak, i’m not weak, i’m not weak ---------- but he’s breaking and tearing at the edges and there are pieces of him missing he’s sure he’ll never recover, there are pieces of him missing that the world has taken from him and crumbled to dust at his feet. he thinks of who he was fourteen years ago and thinks of how much he’s changed and he he doesn’t know if it’s been for the better, doesn’t know if the boy young and bright - eyed would recognize him at all or if he’d just be another face in the crowd, scarred and different, a ghost of who he once was.
“ i don’t know ---------- “ his breath catches and his eyes are wide and frantic and he swears he feels the basement around him and hears garcia’s sobs in his ears, but he doesn’t, he doesn’t. “ i don’t know how to do this, “ he admits it quiet and scared and soft, voice ragged and weak. he admits it because it’s emily and because he’s done pretending and he’s done hiding, because for the last four months he’s held onto a world falling apart around him and now his hands are tired from gripping tight, his mind is tired from keeping going, his body is tired from staying breathing. every second had been a battle and he can’t fight it anymore.
he nods weakly and tries to breathe in, tries to slow the pounding butterfly beat in his chest and doesn’t say he’s not sure he has it in him to do this again, to stand in front of a review board and plead that this hasn’t broken him for good. he doesn’t say that all he wants is his life back and he’s tired, so tired of having to drag it back kicking and screaming.
the truth is he doesn’t know how much he has left in him.
“ i still trust you, “ he says, but his voice shakes and his mind aches and he knows if he’s not careful a nurse will soon be upon him and a sedative will flow through his veins and he’ll have no choice but to sleep, sleep and wake screaming again.
he can hear the footsteps coming. her hand is on his cheek and the other is clasped in his and he hasn’t realized just how tightly he’s gripping it. like a lifeline.
“ i don’t want you to go. “
#I WROTE U A NOVEL BACK#livedforwards#❛ —— interactions. / all.#❛ —— you’ll never be what is in your heart. / verse.
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livedforwards / emily prentiss.
“agree to disagree.” it’s quiet and bitter and sad and it almost comes out as okay just for his benefit. okay, it wasn’t my fault. she knows he’d see right through it. it’s the only reason she doesn’t.
“i can’t possibly explain to you how grateful i am that you did. and i hope you never stop knowing that.” she might have to say it a thousand times - and is it for him, or for her? she’s not sure. a little bit of both. “thank you. for holding on long enough to come home.”
her heart stutters and drops to somewhere in her knees.
i don’t know. i don’t know.
too many things she wants to say. yes would be a lie, and emily isn’t in the habit of lying to him. she wants to. just to ease that tension, make promises she knows she can’t keep. she loves him too much, and for the past four months there’s been two bleeding, gaping wounds in her life where spencer and penelope used to be. she wants to say i’ll make it happen or i’m not letting you out of my sight again or if you’re out of the field i’ll be certain to still see you every day of my life but mostly she wants to say anything that will let him sleep. let him rest.
“let’s not worry about that yet.” her thumb works circles over the back of his hand. “we’ve got a long way to go. you know that. we focus on getting you both out of the hospital first, okay?” she presses her cheek briefly against his hand. “i’m on your side. that’s all i can give you right now. you have me, no matter what. my house or derek’s. you can choose. both of you. i’ll be there either way, i-”
vision blurring dangerously, emily grits her teeth. half of her things are at derek’s house. she has a change of clothes there she half doesn’t remember leaving, hank’s come to expect her walking in the door on the weekends.
“i don’t care about the field right now. i don’t think any of us are going back for quite some time.”
“ EMILY, “ it’s something testy in his voice, the edge of frustration that says he knows he’s not getting through. if he weren’t so tired, his body so aching, he might argue more. he might never drop it. he’s stubborn, but the weight of exhaustion is so heavy in his bones he swears he can feel them bowing under its weight. he decides to let it be. for the moment. for the hour. for the day. but not forever.
something twists painful in his heart. he’d held on. it’s a distant echo in his mind ; he’d held on. he’d held on for her and for penelope garcia, who he couldn’t leave lost and afraid. for his team and for his mom, who shouldn’t have to bury her son so young. he’d held on and at times he doesn’t know how. only knows that he’d fought. he’d fought and he’d fought and he’d fought and for four months that was all he had known. fighting for every breath.
“ thank you. for finding us. “
he feels something inside him crack and bleed. feels another punch to his gut as real as the ones in months before. his free hand twists tight in the white hospital sheet beside him ; his knuckles turn pale. he swallows thickly around what’s rising in his throat and tries to breathe. it doesn’t take a profiler to hear around the half - answer in her words. it doesn’t take a genius to know that he’s had enough chances and the last might have been that ----- the last.
“ it’s not fair, “ he lets out, and it’s soft and quiet and he can’t look at her, not anymore. his gaze finds the wall behind her and he feels sudden in his gut the cruel twist of anger. he wants to be okay. he wants to be okay but he can feel his breathing hitch and hear the spike in his own heart monitor that means he’s not.
he wonders when life will stop taking, and taking, and taking. he wonders what of him will be left with no ssa in front of his name. he thinks of thirteen years of work spiraling deep down the drain and never saving a life again and swears he feels all the breath escape his body at once.
his heart monitor beeps faster, and faster, and faster.
“ emily ---------- i can’t lose this, too. “
#this is officially it#this is THE WORST THING i have EVER written#TWELVE YEARS have been SHAVED OFF MY LIFE#❛ —— interactions. / all.#❛ —— you’ll never be what is in your heart. / verse.#livedforwards
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this blog is NOTHING but angst right now and i’d apologize but i’m having a bad mental health day and this is how i’m coping so all i can tell y’all is to buckle up and hold on tight
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one of the Top Ten Worst Things TM abt the prison arc is the fact that a part of spencer genuinely wonders if this is what he deserves. “ i’m here because i made a choice “ like he wasn’t framed for fucking murder, but looking back at what he put his mother through and all the secrets he kept a very large and overwhelming chunk of himself truly believes it’s all his fault.
#i'm#sorry#me??? projecting all my sadness onto spencer reid#and ignoring my own issues???#more likely than u think!!!#but uh#when he tells cat 'you and i deserve each other'#u can see in his eyes#there's a part of him that believes it#❛ —— meme.jpg / ooc.#❛ —— this intense police procedural ... / show.
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baumom / jennifer jareau.
IT’S ALL BLURRY, she can hear things, but it’s all coming from a thousand miles away, maybe too far out of reach. she’s perhaps too weak to even try to open her eyes, she doesn’t want to open her eyes. her head and brain suddenly splits into two, she’s praying that it’s all a product of her imagination, just a really bad dream, a horrible and hideous nightmare that she simply can’t wake up from —— but at the same time, she can hear something, something that sounds so right, so soft and comforting ; the sound of his voice … but he’s gone, he’s completely gone. so unfairly taken away from her, away from this world. without a reason, other than being her everything. murdered in cold blood, the love of her life, the man she had once hoped to belong to, now nothing but a lifeless body.
but the voice insists, it calls her name over and over again, and she still doesn’t want to open her eyes, because it isn’t real ; it can’t be real. she heard it, she heard the gunshot. i’m here, i’m here. the voice that almost feels like the light at the end of the tunnel, and she’s scared to be disappointed. “ uh— i’m seeing things, ” it comes out as a chuckle, but it’s far from a joyous one. both of her blue eyes give in, and they start to open slowly, struggling, every bone in her body hurts, burns in pain. but as they open, she sees him clearly, maybe too clearly. no, he’s not here, her brain is playing games with her. “no, it was my fault … i’m sorry they did that to you, i should have stopped them, i sh— i should have, ” her words are shaky, almost not making any sense, because she’s still in her dream. but suddenly, she’s brought back to reality.
bones and skin, all flesh, he’s beside her. but how? the only thing that would explain it, a ghost? no, he’s too real. “ s— spence? ” her voice is a whisper, and even though the figure is blury, it’s not that hard to accept it. she blinks a few times, and there he is, hazel eyes exhausted and skin battered, dirt, blood and bruises. “ spence … oh my god, it’s you, ” she attempts to sit, and for once, all the burning pain in her limbs are ignored, because he’s still here. it’s so painful still, but she doesn’t care, he’s alive, and he’s with her. “ i— i thought i lost—— ” there’s a pause, and she’s shaking, trying to catch her breath, “ i thought i lost you,” and she sobs, both arms instantly finding their way around his neck, the tears heavier than any other set of tears she’d ever cried. foreheads touch, she can’t talk anymore, she can’t speak, just sob, cry uncontrollably.
she feared never telling him so many things, never telling him she loved him, among other things. but life was giving her a second chance. once they got out of here, she’d stop hiding. “ i— i have to give the the codes … that’s the only way, ” she sniffles, still not letting go of him, hands tugging at his shirt. “ i can trick them, i know a way, we can make it out of here, i promise, spence,” she whispers as close to his face as she could without drawing attention. “ do you trust me? ”
HIS BODY ACHES IN TIME WITH HIS MIND ; his heart hurts like a knife in his chest and he feels the weight of it crushing inside him, feels death staining his being like bruises on skin. his hands run a soft course through her hair, stop to rest against her cheeks like the blood frozen in his veins can do anything to warm hers, the coldness of her skin. her eyes struggle open and he feels the burn of tears in his own, feels sadness fill the hole in his stomach like water rushing a flow to sea. the fight is near drained from his body and he’s sure her beside him is all that keeps him holding on, all that keeps him steady in the storm ---------- steady as he can be, steady though he’s wavering, teetering on the edge. time has blurred at the edges and it’s all he can do to stay standing.
“ no, you’re not seeing things. you’re not. i’m here, “ he says it again, says it with a voice hoarse and soft and for her ears only, quiet in the room around them. his hands never leave her, like the weight of his touch is enough to convince her he’s real, he’s with her, he won’t leave her again. “ it’s not your fault. none of this is your fault, “ and his fingers smooth gentle over the cool softness of her skin, run down her arms and grip there, light but sure. anything, anything to make her believe. anything to wake her from the nightmare that clutches her soul. “ and i’m here. i promise you that i’m here, “ there’s a crack in his voice like something inside of him breaking, a mournfulness that holds him tight and doesn’t let go. pieces of him are shattered and scattered in the wind but he stays together and pretends to�� be whole. “ and i’m not leaving you again. “
he can see it, the snap back to reality, feels her arms finding their home around his neck, his own snaking around her waist, holding her close like he’ll never let go. his face buries into her shoulder first and there’s a warmth and a wetness on his cheeks that means he’s crying, there’s a sob in the air he thinks might have escaped his own lips, and as their foreheads press together a hand reaches to brush soft at the tears that run tracks down her tired features, an arm still keeping her steady and tight against him. for a moment, a second, the space of a breath, the world around him stops, the pain that wracks his body fades and all that matters is her against him, her breathing in his ears, her heartbeat against him. they’re alive ---------- they’re beaten and battered, bruised and bleeding, but they’re alive.
they’re alive, and he loves her, loves her so much he can feel it now pounding steady in his chest. he loves her and he knows now more than ever there is no hiding it anymore ---------- knows once they’re free from walls that contain them there won’t be any quieting it, the roar of it within him. “ of course, “ he says it and he does, more than anything ----- believes with all he is she means what she says. he nods, holds her close even still, eyes deep and hazel and watery on blue, ocean blue. tries to hold onto peace before chaos crashes around them again. “ of course i trust you. no matter what, i trust you. “
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