[sometimes it works out more than others. get up keep trying, that's her mantra here. she supposes very few people are decent without trying, refusing to cut herself the slack she would give anyone else in trench, even john gaius, were things explained to her by the right people.
he's right. and like she'd said, she could have said 'sucks' and kept to herself. that's not who she is here, maybe that's not who she ever really was.
she moves her finger a fraction so that it just bumps against his, just an easy, casual thing, no big deal. yeah, it's something, and she won't push it.]
It was a little selfish, yeah. But it also made her ...happy. I hadn't seen her happy since well before I got locked up. So not totally selfish. The last time I really knew her was when she was ...younger than you.
[but if powder had shown up here. oh no. no.
The shitty parts of both our brains can just get in the ocean and go.
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Date: 2022-09-21 04:00 am (UTC)[sometimes it works out more than others. get up keep trying, that's her mantra here. she supposes very few people are decent without trying, refusing to cut herself the slack she would give anyone else in trench, even john gaius, were things explained to her by the right people.
he's right. and like she'd said, she could have said 'sucks' and kept to herself. that's not who she is here, maybe that's not who she ever really was.
she moves her finger a fraction so that it just bumps against his, just an easy, casual thing, no big deal. yeah, it's something, and she won't push it.]
It was a little selfish, yeah. But it also made her ...happy. I hadn't seen her happy since well before I got locked up. So not totally selfish. The last time I really knew her was when she was ...younger than you.
[but if powder had shown up here. oh no. no.
The shitty parts of both our brains can just get in the ocean and go.