continued from x. @strongost
——————————NEITHER OF THEM HAVE WALKED AWAY FROM JACOB UNHARMED, yet still catalyst would say that staci had been the one to receive the brunt of hurt. he would not dwell on voice over radio, face, bruised && battered as she pushed him onto the truck. ( but he would, because he would give anything to go back && grab her wrist, pull her down with him. they could have both escaped. )
he does not dwell on his failures, but that one haunts him.
they do not sleep outside of each other’s company. brought closer by a horrific event, didn’t he read somewhere that hard times could make or break people? they weren’t even truly friends before this, not even really strangers. if it were anything else, he would find it funny.
catalyst sits a little closer, enough to let his right hand fall in the space between them, while he holds the pen with his left. he does not know what to say to ease her, but perhaps he doesn’t have to say anything at all. an open invitation, she could take his hand, or not.
❝ i understand. ❞ he writes, with careful letters. he still forgets to dot his i’s. ❝ it is rare to feel like i can breathe, but with you... it is a little easier. ❞