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“I found you, little one.”
“How did you escape?”
“You didn’t come for visitation, and I got bored.” “Bored…”
“You are also my priority. I would have always hunted for you to the ends of the fucking earth, little one.
“Don’t hold it in,”
“If you need to cry, then you fucking cry, little one. Get it all out right here and now.”
“I’ve got you,”
“Shhh. I’ve got you.”
“Don’t cry any more tears because of them.
Dry your eyes and keep your chin up. They don’t deserve your tears.”
I love someone who’s never once loved me back, and I’d still die for her.
“You kept me slightly sane, Base. Thank you.”
“Do you always do that?”
“Ignore your own demons to cater to everyone else’s?
“I don’t have anything to live for, but you do.”
“Please live for me.”
“The first time I saw you, I was yours. I’ll always be yours, Freckles.
You’ll both always be my girls.”
“You’re not doing this by yourself anymore. I’m here. I’m not letting you do this alone. You and me, you hear me?”
“I’m able to take myself out, you barbaric wanker.”
You gave me a reason to live when I felt like I was already dead inside.”
“She’s not there. Don’t talk to her. She’s not there. You aren’t crazy. We aren’t crazy. Because she’s not there.”
Trauma made me a shell, but I’ve slowly cracked free from it,
“You feel alone,” I say, my voice breaking. “So do I.” When he doesn’t look away, I press further, sliding off the bed and onto the floor. “You feel broken.” A beat, and I add, “So do I.”
Under the skin of the devil they created, buried in the fucking void of the darkness he’s trapped in, I will find a glimmer of his humanity.
“Is that you, Freckles?”
“They want a war?” he says. “Well let’s give them one.”
“You have a beautiful soul,”
“You’re worth more than death.”
I want to claim all your emotions. Fear. Anger. Misery. Happiness. Love.” He presses his thumb against my clit through my underwear, and I let out a soft moan from the abrupt sensation. “I want your heart, every single fucking fragment that I’ve broken over the years. I have your past and your present, and I want to be a selfish asshole and have your future.”
“You once told me not to be afraid of you. That sometimes people need to change to survive.”
“You survived.”
My name is Kade Mitchell, son of Tobias Mitchell, and I will not be fucking silent anymore.”
She’s my entire fucking world.
“But I’m not the good guy.”
“No time for dramatics,”
“She looks like fucking Gollum in a wig.”
You’re like a dad to me. And… and you were the first person to believe me.
It took me so long to find my voice, and it was you who got that voice to work.
“We survived.”
It’s a sign that even when the world is in chaos, even when terror and havoc and death greet us at every turn, someone, somewhere, is having the best day of their life. It’s beautiful yet tragic. It’s hope of better things to come.
You’re going to live, Stacey. Fucking live for me.”
