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@chanceofpunching | hurt comfort starters – ‘i’m not leaving you here’
‘Why?’ She doesn’t understand Kara. She doesn’t understand the woman’s faith in her. She doesn’t know how to explain to her that beneath the cool exterior everyone sees, there’s a broken woman who doesn’t deserve the kindness Kara insists on giving her. She shakes her head, turning her face away from Kara so that the woman can’t see her expression. It’s been so long since anyone’s cared that it almost hurts. ‘Why won’t you? No one would blame you if you did’.
“Why?” Brows immediately knit at the question, turning around to take in the way Lillian turns away from her before she closes the distance between them with a calm stride, hand coming up to curve around her shoulder. “No one would blame me if I didn’t save the world, either. Well, okay,” Scrunched lips turn to the side, “I’m pretty sure a lot of people would blame me. But, no one would blame me if I stopped writing because getting through to people is difficult--or...if I didn’t fight. No one would blame me if I didn’t tip a common courtesy 20 percent at restaurants which is not that hard to do, even though everyone acts like being provided a service is the worst possible thing in the world to pay for.” Kara gripes, voice softening, serious, “No one would blame me if I chose the selfish thing, but I would blame myself. I would blame myself, if I left you. Because it wouldn’t feel right.” A small, quiet breath that isn’t tempered by the steel of her shoulders, settling as they straighten, “And doing the right thing isn’t about what people think of me, Lillian. I do it because it’s what my heart knows is right. I’m not staying here because I’m obligated to, I’m staying here because I am not,” She repeats, firm, “Leaving you here. If our positions were reversed,” It’s serious-- “Would you leave me?”





















