"My parents gave me up for the price of an apartment," he says, even as he knows it's not the same, just easier to face than the things she's saying. The implications, and the truth, and the thought of her vulnerable again, alone again, unable to be saved. "Then after my grandfather died and I wouldn't give up Black Elm, they couldn't leave town fast enough. Counting their inheritance the entire way, I don't doubt. Maybe I wasn't trash, but I was discarded all the same."
The bat thunks onto the floor, the sound of it loud and sudden enough that he has to work not to flinch. He looks back over at her, sees her pick up the jeans, and he could stop her. He should stop her. There's still the possibility they could fix this, somehow.
He stays where he is, watching as the bat rolls a few inches to the left, leaving a faint arc of red against the boards. It's just because the building's old enough that the floors tilt, but right now it feels like a rebuke.
"So you kill the world before it kills you. Anything that stands in your way." He focuses on the coiled vipers along her collarbones, the furious set of her mouth and the cruel and fathomless dark of her eyes. Like she could drown someone in them, swallow them up and leave nothing behind. "Or anyone."
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Date: 2020-06-06 10:53 pm (UTC)The bat thunks onto the floor, the sound of it loud and sudden enough that he has to work not to flinch. He looks back over at her, sees her pick up the jeans, and he could stop her. He should stop her. There's still the possibility they could fix this, somehow.
He stays where he is, watching as the bat rolls a few inches to the left, leaving a faint arc of red against the boards. It's just because the building's old enough that the floors tilt, but right now it feels like a rebuke.
"So you kill the world before it kills you. Anything that stands in your way." He focuses on the coiled vipers along her collarbones, the furious set of her mouth and the cruel and fathomless dark of her eyes. Like she could drown someone in them, swallow them up and leave nothing behind. "Or anyone."