[ She looks at her, and it softens like ice, melting to drip between the cracks.
A second then, when it might just be like before, like she could just step forward, settle herself under her chin and press her face against her neck and say something sweet. Like none of this ever happened. A comfortable warmth that they could share between them, for Parker to hide herself against her the way she always did when it all got to much. Where she was pillars to hold the world off her and -
- her head tilts, her lips part. ]
Yes you do, you always needed me to do the things you couldn't do.
[ Cruelty she had learned, was better done softly. ]
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A second then, when it might just be like before, like she could just step forward, settle herself under her chin and press her face against her neck and say something sweet. Like none of this ever happened. A comfortable warmth that they could share between them, for Parker to hide herself against her the way she always did when it all got to much. Where she was pillars to hold the world off her and -
- her head tilts, her lips part. ]
Yes you do, you always needed me to do the things you couldn't do.
[ Cruelty she had learned, was better done softly. ]