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Everything in her life had fallen apart over time. Whether it came down to her current situation or long before that when things were never very simple. It went beyond 'simple' over time and Calliope could only blame herself over and over again. It would be easy to blame someone else ( especially the one person who deserved the blame—COSIMA ), yet that wasn't the case when she blamed herself for allowing it all to get to her to begin with. She took the steps that led her to where she was; she let things play out the way she had; she let the woman of power get under her skin.
It will be fine. It will all be back to the way it was.
All she had to do was find a way of slipping back into things. It would take time, but she could keep her head down while she hid away for the time being. All she needed was a plan and just enough time to get things in order.
However, the only thing she needed now was the one person who could take her away from it all. The one person — the only woman who could guide her away from the agony that they were both forced to suffer. That was the same person whose hand she currently slipped her own into, lacing their fingers together when it was getting to be that time where Tess would leave to her own residency.
“Five more minutes.” It was a time Calliope hated when it was always inevitable since they couldn't get caught. Even so, she still held on without the want or need to pull back when they were safely tucked away in her own residency for now. “Or maybe ten.”