axiomed: (The weeks and months)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-15 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head. ]

Maybe so, but it wasn't anyone's fault.
pain_train: (i never meant it)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-15 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
How does that work?
axiomed: (From the work of sorrow)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-16 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
People are allowed to be afraid.
pain_train: (miss the past that no longer exists)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-16 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[She falls silent as she considers this. You don't get to tell people how to feel, she knows that. But. ]

Sometimes people are afraid of the wrong thing.
axiomed: (They could talk all night)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-16 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Even so. It's not my place to tell them that.
pain_train: (i never meant it)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-16 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
But if it hurts you, that's also not right.
axiomed: (My head and my heart)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-16 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
It can't be helped, darling.

[ Pain is easy to bear. Pain was his due. He feels less bitter about it, though his own suspicious nature had yet to abate. ]
pain_train: (i wish i could remember)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-16 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Softly:] It's not your due.

[He deserves nice things.]
axiomed: (They still cling to the wall)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-16 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
I saw the future. I saw who I was, who I could be, what I could keep if I had that kind of hope.

I'm not saying I -- deserve it. But I am saying I can hold it.
pain_train: (let me lay my head)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-16 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't have a good answer for that. It would be one thing if it was a question of combat. That's her job, not Charles's. But she has no authority here. All she has is worry. She just wants her friends to be happy, and okay. Because then it doesn't matter so much if she's a fucking mess.

She just curls up a bit more against him, like that will somehow make a difference.]
axiomed: (To fall so hard for you?)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-16 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ He runs a hand through her hair. He doesn't feel bad or all that worried. The words of his future self gave him a strength and a cause he thought was all but lost. And his beliefs, his hopes have paid off, slowly but surely.

No, Charles had no regrets. ]
pain_train: (i never meant it)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] pain_train 2016-07-16 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad. It's better to not.

[It's probably a bad thing, that she keeps trying to make him feel better and it turns out to be the other way around. But she's so glad he puts up with her worrying and clinging. It's hard to know what's okay or what's not.]
axiomed: (By the end of the day)

Re: [ wrath ]

[personal profile] axiomed 2016-07-16 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
I believe that too.