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𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅𝐅 alternatives for where she’ll make herself sleep , and kit is suddenly reminded of the way he always caves for her . they’re far from the unstoppable force and immovable object ; natalie is , most certainly , the unstoppable force . but resist as he might , he’ll always move to accommodate her , so long as it makes her happy . he’d do anything to make her happy , and maybe that makes him pathetic , but he can’t stop . kit thinks he’ll probably be hung up on natalie for the rest of his life — what a fucking sob story . he can’t let go , even after she’s turned him away innumerable times . the thing is , all it takes is one night like this , one time of her showing up , and any progress he might’ve made tumbles right out of his grasp .
he’s about to keep arguing , push this issue until she sees his side of things , but he should’ve known that she’d always get the last word in . i can’t , she insists , and there he goes again , resolve crumbling at a single look from natalie . “ fine , ” he gives in , unsurprised to find himself where he’s been plenty of times before : at her mercy . he’s far more used to it than he’d like to be , but he’s resigned himself to the fact that more often than not , her word is like gospel to him .
still , he’s not going to let go without a final offer . he cards a hand through his hair , feeling ridiculous for the nerves that bubble up in his stomach at the idea , but he says it aloud nonetheless . “ you’re welcome to share with me , still . if you don’t want to stay on the couch , ” he tells her , meeting her eyes after a moment . they’d slept in the same bed innumerable amount of times when they were together , natalie a comforting presence even on his most sleepless of nights . he’d slept better when she was there , honestly ; even a quick glance at her sleeping form always helped him to relax , to remember that he wasn’t alone . the first few weeks after they’d broken up , his bed had felt unbearably empty . kit isn’t quite sure if it’ll be better or worse to have her back in it , if she so chooses .
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐒 , natalie knows EXACTLY what is said about her when people think she’s not listening . it’s not shocking — no , she knows better than to be taken by surprise when people look at her and see HER FATHER and all his many mistakes , when they see the girl who testified to put him behind bars and , inadvertently ( though the technicalities of it never mattered to the average nosy onlooker , anyway ) stole the last of the breath in his lungs , when they see a MONSTER . the thing is , she hears them . the thing is , they’re wrong about her , though she can’t blame them for it when she’s never given them any reason to think otherwise . the thing is , the only person in this whole fucked up world who has ever looked at her long enough to know that she’s MORE than some heartless , hateful bitch is standing right in front of her . the thing is , no matter how much time passes , she’s unable to shake the fear of losing him .
if natalie loses kit — when natalie loses kit — then she loses the only person who has ever seen her and the only person who ever would . she loses the only person who would ever love her . the only person she would ever love . when she loses kit , she loses EVERYTHING — all that’s worth keeping from her past , where she is now , and the untouchable future she could never have . and as horrible and selfish and cruel of her as it is , she’s not READY . letting kit get this close to her in the first place was a mistake , but it was a mistake that she’d make a million times over if she got the chance . natalie knows that kit deserves better , and that there’s so much more for him in this world , and she knows that she has to let him go so that he can get there , but she CAN’T . not now . right now , she wants to pretend a little while longer that they live in some pretty , fantasy world where she and kit can find their way back to each other ( they won’t ) and how much she loves him could somehow be enough ( it isn’t ) and one day she’ll try and pretend that the memories of what they once had are ENOUGH ( they aren’t . )
she starts to turn towards the couch once she hears the word FINE be heaved out , like it was some great effort to give into her and allow himself the opportunity to sleep in his own bed — which , knowing kit , it probably WAS . what she isn’t expecting is to hear him speak up again , and certainly NOT to tell her that she could sleep in his bed . the breath she takes in is slow and shaky , and she’s just hoping that she’s turned away from him enough that he can’t see the way that she looks down to turn the lighter over in her palm a few times before tracing the heart with her thumb . it’s a TERRIBLE idea , sleeping in kit’s bed with him . it is , quite possibly , one of the worst ideas that she’s ever heard come out of christopher hawthorne’s stupid mouth . even worse is the quiet , “ okay , ” that she hears come out of her own mouth before she’s even all the way turned around to face him again . it was definitely too quick of a response , too eager , but it’s too fucking late to do anything about it now , so . “ okay , ” she says again , sounding a little more solid , but not much . “ but if you want me to leave , i’ll leave . ” she says it every time she dares to toe the line with kit , whenever she’s inches from overstepping . she knows that he knows , same way she knows exactly what his answer will be , but she says it anyway . “ just say the words . ”













