Andy sighed softly at the question asked in return, and she didn't bother asking this time before she sank down on the arm of his chair. "More then I've ever told you," she answered gently, reaching with remarkably steady fingers to cup Booker's chin and turn him towards her. "Why didn't you tell us, Book?"
The sudden sharp shock of hearing him say he wanted to die shouldn't have been a stunning blow, but it was. And it sent a frisson offs frightful wonder up Andy's spine: how close had they come to a breakdown on his part? How had they not noticed? She held her hands out to him, welcoming and absolutive though she was hardly saint enough to properly give it. She could offer, would offer, anything she could give to any of them: they were family. The only tie she still had left to this never-ending world.
"We need you here. I need you here." Andy couldn't do this alone, couldn't keep wandering from fight to fight and war to war without the others to keep her steady and sane. If she could have let him rest and end this endless curse that kept them all alive, she would have. But she couldn't
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Date: 2020-09-11 03:18 pm (UTC)The sudden sharp shock of hearing him say he wanted to die shouldn't have been a stunning blow, but it was. And it sent a frisson offs frightful wonder up Andy's spine: how close had they come to a breakdown on his part? How had they not noticed? She held her hands out to him, welcoming and absolutive though she was hardly saint enough to properly give it. She could offer, would offer, anything she could give to any of them: they were family. The only tie she still had left to this never-ending world.
"We need you here. I need you here." Andy couldn't do this alone, couldn't keep wandering from fight to fight and war to war without the others to keep her steady and sane. If she could have let him rest and end this endless curse that kept them all alive, she would have. But she couldn't