[ chaos of the past like 36 hours :ben: returns to this
the apology gets another breathless, half laugh-half protest, and he shakes his head against hers as he steadies himself, though it fails a little - when he does finally pull back it's to just take her in, to look at her and reassure them both. ]
Not cursed. Just bloody unlucky. [ really, really unlucky, but the smile on his face is warm and hopelessly wry, a half-hearted joke just for coping with the enormity of the entire thing. the urge to bonk their foreheads together is like, overwhelming for a moment but he doesn't, hands coming from her arms to her face, holding it in his hands, half reminding them both. ] Yeah?
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the apology gets another breathless, half laugh-half protest, and he shakes his head against hers as he steadies himself, though it fails a little - when he does finally pull back it's to just take her in, to look at her and reassure them both. ]
Not cursed. Just bloody unlucky. [ really, really unlucky, but the smile on his face is warm and hopelessly wry, a half-hearted joke just for coping with the enormity of the entire thing. the urge to bonk their foreheads together is like, overwhelming for a moment but he doesn't, hands coming from her arms to her face, holding it in his hands, half reminding them both. ] Yeah?
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Yeah.
[ exhales. she kind of wants to just melt under the couch after the burst of adrenaline and exhaustion, but. a beat. ]
Fuck.
[ that's all she can manage, she's just kind of grappling with being alive on a friday. ]