Comments | ozsixwords: for El

heartof_thezone in ozsixwords

for El

Mar 23, 2014 23:47

[staring out at the calm water]

tv: tin man, [oc], [au]

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elari_brooks March 25 2014, 13:38:25 UTC

[walks up behind her and wraps arms around her wife,] Hey babe. [kisses the back of her neck] You good?

heartof_thezone March 25 2014, 13:55:12 UTC

[closes her eyes at the contact, but doesn't move otherwise; quietly] Marisol died today. [finally lowers her gave and leans into El's hold]

elari_brooks March 25 2014, 14:15:29 UTC

[she had heard. One of Dree's assistants had called to give her a heads up. She nodded and tightened the embrace, not giving any indication that she knew] I'm sorry.

heartof_thezone March 25 2014, 14:23:56 UTC

[takes a slow breath; forces a smile] She was ready. [lowers her gaze again as a tear escapes] I wasn't.

[she had never cried for any of them, in the nearly ten annuals since the quakes changed all their lives... until that afternoon; reaches up to cover her mouth as her wall breaks for the second time]

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