@leftlimp DIDNT ASK , but is getting one anyways.
❝ you’ve only heard his point of view. you 𝐃𝐈𝐃𝐍'𝐓 𝐀𝐒𝐊 mine ! ❞

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@leftlimp DIDNT ASK , but is getting one anyways.
❝ you’ve only heard his point of view. you 𝐃𝐈𝐃𝐍'𝐓 𝐀𝐒𝐊 mine ! ❞
@leftlimp asked: “ i wanna get better . ” 4 lu
details of the last twenty - four hours blend together in her mind , lucy can vaguely remember jeff returning to their temporary home : it was late at night , not long after she’d managed to coax nick to sleep , promising him that dad would be here when he wakes up . he’d left earlier in the day to travel to a store they’d passed on their way into town , a place that looked promising , though they were running so low on everything that taking a shot in the dark seemed worth it . ( in retrospect , it hadn’t been , and if lucy had known then what she knows now , she would have done everything in her power to get him to stay . ) and when he’d finally returned he had a full bag slung over his shoulder and looked pale as a ghost .
her heart all but stopped in her chest as her eyes dipped just below his collarbone , a peak of dark crimson soaking through his shirt , poking out from behind his jacket . there was no wound , at least none that she could see , but it was clear as day his blood . as he stepped towards her he could barely keep himself on his feet , and it was immediately obvious to lucy that he’d exhausted himself to get back to them . she remembers the way she’d wrapped his arm around her neck and the way that he slumped into her side , the way that she struggled to get him up the few steps inside , how grateful she was that they left the first floor bedroom unoccupied . when she was finally able to inspect the root of his pallid complexion , she’s sure she could have died right then and there . peeling back the lapel of his jacket , on his right shoulder was raw flesh still oozing dark blood , a slow trickle at best , but there was no denying what it was . her hand fell over her mouth to muffle the sobs that she could not contain , and she noticed that jeff’s eyes were on the ground , something that looked like shame hidden in them . her knees felt weak , her head felt foggy , but something in the pit of her stomach kept her grounded , glued her to her spot at his side .
at some point he’d fallen asleep ( or unconscious , lucy honestly couldn’t tell the difference ) , after a tear - filled conversation and kisses and embraces and promises . everything done to keep her voice down , to keep from waking nick before she had fully come up with a way to break the news . for a time after he had shut his eyes and stopped responding to her small attempts at conversation , all lucy could do was kneel beside his bed and hold onto his hand for dear life , kissing each and every one of his fingers and pressing his knuckles into her forehead . doing her best to commit his touch to memory , shifting only to move her chin into her other hand , to stare at his face and force herself to remember each and every detail , every small freckle and scar , all of his lines and imperfections . and she cried , and just when she thought she’d run out of tears , an onslaught of new sobs wracked her entire body and fresh ones fell down her cheeks .
now , she sits quiet at his bedside . keeping a watchful eye on the labored rise and fall of his chest , every so often reaching forward to press the back of her hand against his forehead . each time hoping and praying that his fever would have finally subsided , each time knowing that that wouldn’t be the case . she spent a lot of time trying to come to terms with the inevitability of his death , of how on earth she was supposed to raise nick alone in a world like this . she thought a lot about nick , about how he would handle losing his father , how he would handle growing up without him . she worried , gnawing her nails to stubs and sitting with a bucket between her legs at one point , when the nausea had gotten so bad but she refused to leave jeff’s side . time seemed to pass quickly and not at all , with the only sounds around her being jeff’s breathing and the bugs just outside .
with nothing else but worry and fear and sadness to occupy her thoughts , her mind drifted through memories : from the very first time they’d met to their wedding day ; to the day that nick was born , the look on jeff’s face when he held him for the first time probably the happiest she’d ever seen him . she wishes she had taken a picture . of all the things she’d packed in a panic , photo albums had not been one of the items to make the cut , yet another thing to add to her growing list of regrets . her memory would fade , details would blur , one day she would really lose jeff , and if the thought of that happening made her light - headed , she dreaded the day that it’d actually happen .
for as closely as she’d been watching him , she doesn’t notice when he starts to stir awake , slowly blinking his eyes to adjust to the sunlight coming in through the window . his voice is hoarse and low , but in the silence of the room around them jolts her . she springs upright in her seat , leaning in so that her elbows were pressed into the mattress he laid on . for a minute she can’t find a response , not even a single word floating around in her skull : she’s sure that her hesitation is reassuring . ❝ you will , ❞ her words are weak , and if she can’t believe them , he sure as hell wouldn’t . ❝ you’re gonna be fine , jeff . ❞ she’s trying to convince herself at this point , tone overly hopeful and urging , but they both know it’s pointless . lucy takes hold of his hand , palm cold and clammy in hers , and she can feel him shaking . she can also feel him tense to try and hide it , which only forces her to shut her eyes to blink away another wave of oncoming tears . her opposite hand raises to the side of his head , brushes the pad of her thumb softly over his cheek , shifts to move a piece of overgrown hair out of his eye , and she silently curses herself for putting off trimming it for so long .
her eyes sting , veined and rimmed in red , as they finally look up into jeff’s . from above them she can hear the gentle stir of an excited nicholas beginning to wake up , ready for a promise to be fulfilled . better to rip the bandaid off than peel it back slowly , no matter how hard the words are to choke out . lucy swallows and attempts to find some sense of solidarity inside of herself , no matter how quickly the room seems to be spinning around her . she doesn’t bother wiping away her tears anymore , grinding her teeth and furrowing her brow while contemplating what to say . ❝ he’s --- he’s gotta say goodbye . ❞ fingers squeeze tight , not quite ready to stand , she instead shifts so that she’s sitting on the edge of the bed , hunched forward with her head pressed against jeff’s chest .
her sobs are quiet , noted only by the shuddering of her shoulders and the heaving of her body with deep breaths . fingers dig into the sheet , the other still holding onto his hand , she nearly screams out in frustration , from feeling so helpless . when she speaks again it’s barely above a whisper , muffled against the folded fabric of the blanket draped over him , still she prays that he doesn’t hear them . ❝ i can’t lose you . ❞
﹠﹔ 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦. — accepting .
☣.•°* 𝐋𝐄𝐅𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐏┆ “ liked
❛ 𝐈'𝐌 𝐃𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐑 ❜ ——— she says, voice resembles a sad lullaby, a lament and tears gather at the edge of the abyss ❛ all i do is for her, the good and the bad, all i want is to hold her in my arms again ❜
Rosario tries at giving him an explanation, something that would make him understand why she acted like she did earlier that day, why she showed no mercy with those who posed a threat and an obstacle in her quest to find Ruby ❛ i’m not sure if i’m evil or if the things i do will lead me to her but all i know is that i won’t stop until i find her ... ❜
“ do i have to call you dad? ” it had been practically radio silence since she got to the house. escorted to the door like the hand off that she was by a social service worker that deemed her mother was incapable of taking care of her daughter. not that the woman had been wrong, but there was no promise that he would be any better. he was little more than a stranger, despite being one half of her gene pool. the better half. she’d kept to herself for the most part, coming out of the guest bedroom he was now calling hers only for dinner and to go to school each day. tonight was the first night of her time in the grimes household that she had opted not to just retreat after eating the food he made. still felt like an outsider, mature beyond her twelve years. she watched from the corner with baited breath before deciding to speak. weeks of observing made it easy to know that every night around this time, jeff would carry nick to bed and sit on the couch with beer in hand. mindlessly watching television with the volume up to mask the sound of his tears. “ i know it’s weird for you. it’s weird for me too. ”
@leftlimp \ jeff grimes .
”you know, i don’t want to say i told you so but...” okay she definitely wants to say it. “i told you so.” the blonde shrugs her shoulders before her features soften a bit, “for real though, are you alright? you took quite the spill.”
@leftlimp // x
day 001 of waiting for becca to make leo and write my character’s father for the third time.
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narrator vc: i was not ready . accepting. @leftlimp
it had to be her . no matter how much nick had insisted he needed to go to be there for her and to say goodbye , lucy would not let her son see his father like that . his last memory of jeff would not be his head stuck up on that pike , but of the bravery that he fought with in full attempt to get back to them , of the knight in shining armor that jeff turned out to be . she’d have him be remembered as one of the most influential people in his life , as someone that loved him more than life itself , that he would have done absolutely everything in his power to make it back if he only could have .
after they’d arrived at the pikes , an hour could have passed before lucy built up enough courage to bring her gaze to where jeff was . and she’d tried not to cry for so long , did her best to keep it together for nick , but as soon as she saw him up there ? as soon as she confirmed that it was him and that he hadn’t been mistaken for someone else , that’s when the floodgates let loose . when she felt her knees begin to buckle and held on to her chest as though she’d just taken a bullet to the heart . still , she kept her composure , back straight , deep breaths taken in through her nose and out through her mouth as the group began to work on retrieving their family .
after they’d pulled the heads of their loved ones down , somehow the spikes looked scarier : cleared of familiar faces and dauntingly ready for someone new . blood was mostly dried at each tip , but where it wasn’t glistened in the sun like rubies , a beautiful contrast to their horrible reality .
she could have taken him being dead . would have screamed and cried and begged for it not to be true , but had he just been found dead , she would have handled it . because bringing a whole body back to alexandria to bury and mourn seemed a hell of a lot easier than just holding a head .
a head whose jaw still hungrily snapped in her direction in spite of not having a stomach to satiate . a head that sat in the grass across from her , far away from everyone else ; the head of a man that had come into her life when she was the most confused and scared she’d ever been and made her whole again . jeff grimes had changed lucy’s life in more ways than one , with ups and downs and loop - de - loops , but through it all they always had one another . from the moment she showed up at his doorstep with coffee and a pregnancy test to what was only hours ago at the fair , their love was something lucy couldn’t begin to compare .
her skin aches where he’d last touched her \ lips numb where he would never kiss again .
they got through whatever life threw at them next because they were together . now , lucy has a sinking loneliness in her chest , a pessimistic thought that she’s not going to make it without him .
the only thing left that keeps her chin up and her lungs working is the thought of nick . knowledge that he was back home safe and alive , and that now more than ever it was her job to protect him , whether or not he was capable of taking care of himself . in the end , they’d thought the same of jeff , swore he was the strongest man in the world .
so much more time passes , she thinks , her mind is screaming at her for it to not be real but her eyes know the truth . for a time lucy thinks it’d be easier to not say anything at all , to instead put an end to the pain and suffering she felt . but she knows there’s no way she can finish this without saying goodbye , without telling him how much he really means to her even if he would never be able to actually hear . ❝ it’s not fair , jeff , you’re not allowed to leave me . ❞ there’s a pause in her crying , hopelessness seemingly drying up every last tear . knuckles turn white at the grip she’s got on the hilt of her knife , pressing into the wet grass underneath her to steady her shaking . ❝ this wasn’t supposed to happen to you . this shouldn’t have happened to you– ❞ all of her statements are selfish . she was sad and angry that he was gone because someone was cruel enough to take him away from her .
mouth opens and breath draws in a gasp , obscenities muttered in vain attempt to compose herself . ❝ i love you so much jeffrey grimes . i’m never going to stop loving you , ❞ she closes her eyes when her arms move forward . can’t bear to slip a knife into the skull of the man she’d called her soulmate and watch it happen . watch the final bits of whatever life may be left in him drain completely . when the gnawing shift of hair below her fingertips stops , she knows it’s over , and she lets her body fall next to him as silent sobs shake her to the core .
jeffrey s. grimes & his son , nicholas a. grimes .