@enslaughts asked: this never should have happened. tommy?
ㅤhe's still a bit breathless, a bit winded. he doesn't mean to laugh, but it's a bit ironic, isn't it? the world they lived in now wasn't meant to exist, but it did. he was never supposed to be a single father, never supposed to miss soccer games when work got too busy, never supposed to know what his hands looked like stained red with his daughter's blood . . . but he did. had they not been forced to know what it was like to go to sleep with the same regret that would wake them, haunted & cold, the next morning? he glances down to the gun in his hand, speckles of red staining his fingers no longer the shock it once had been, before looking back to his brother incredulously. " none of this was s ' posed to happen, tommy, but fuck ── " the breath that escapes him takes form of a chuckle void of any humor. " the way i see it, you're standin' here, " a moment to gesture with the barrel of his gun to the man threat lying lifeless before them, " and he ain't. seems pretty simple to me. "
