nostabbing: (BROKEN ⚡ what happens to old yeller)
Parker ([personal profile] nostabbing) wrote in [personal profile] ardent 2014-01-13 01:46 am (UTC)

No.

[He may not be able to find the alarm, but Parker can, because Parker knows exactly what he's describing. It's the thing that made everybody say she was broken, what makes them say "there's something wrong with you". The point when it stops hurting is the point when you start needing somebody like Hardison to wait you out two years before you can even stop being a mess again.

Parker was broken, do you understand that? she'd heard Nate say to Archie. You should've taken her home, should've — to what? To my real family?

Parker wouldn't fit in with a real family. That's why Ishimaru can't let his slip through his fingers.]


You have to — to try really hard, okay? You have to try so hard, Ishimaru, but you...you have to keep...feeling. And it sucks and it'll hurt so bad but you have to do it, like when you cut yourself and it hurts but it hurts so you know you have to protect that while it heals. You have to try. You have to.

[She tips her head, resting it against his, and focuses on the rhythm her fingers are drawing against his back. Slow, slow. Up, down. Like cracking a safe, steady as it goes.]

I need you to.

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