if we make it through december | maryisa fic - @fairlyhonourabledefeat
If we make it through December
Everything's gonna be all right, I know
They stopped to get petrol, once they were just two towns over from where Zoe and the kids lived. Marisa got out of the passenger seat too, under the pretence of stretching her legs – but returned with a steaming coffee in either hand from the adjacent cafe.
As Marisa approached, expression foul and pensive as it always was when she thought she wasn’t being watched by someone she might find some use for, bundled up against the frost and the cold, so much harsher worse in this part of the country, in Mary’s own bright green scarf, Mary let herself admit, for one moment, that she really was in trouble.
Marisa reached the car and, upon realising that she had no free hands with which to let herself back in the car with, glowered sullenly through the window, rapping her knuckles against the car windscreen to get Mary’s attention so brattishly, with such a hilariously bad attitude, that Mary broke into a grin.
And it felt a frightening amount like love.