rattlingthestars: (003)

[personal profile] rattlingthestars 2017-03-26 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's something that sounds alien here, but it has the cadence of fuck. ]

You - wh -

[ He manages not to ask 'why' at the last minute. There's not really anything Steph could've done to deserve that. ]

Aren't you angry? All mine did was leave and I still want to throw him in the Etherium some days, even if it was my fault.
spoileralert: (stubborn)

cw: some intense domestic abuse emotions

[personal profile] spoileralert 2017-03-26 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Furious. But the first thing I did was try to prove to them that I do have value. On my terms, not theirs.

Then dad was killed, and I just... lost it. I remembered him teaching me to ride a bike, and trying to decorate cakes for my birthdays. All the times he drove me to the hospital because I'd fallen trying to do some stunt.

I guess... [ She hasn't spent a lot of time thinking about this, actually. She's been trying to avoid it. ]

I guess, when he died, it meant that things between us could never get better. I'll never be able to ask him if he really loved me. And if he didn't, I'll never be able to hurt him like he hurt me.