❛ stay . i need you more than you think . ❜ ~ Jules and Kowalski
TO THOSE WE LOVE : open !!
Their relationship seems to be more on the rocks than anything as of late. Every single time they opened their mouth was to fight about some point that won’t matter a few months down the road and at some point, it felt like they were fighting for the sake of fighting. It was as if there wasn’t anything else they had left to say to each other and that’s why they fought. They had more to say to each other when they were nitpicking and find problems with each other. On some days, it could simply be about the fact that he left a plate, a single plate, in the dish and didn’t wash it immediately. It was always the small and minute things that would get on their nerves.
They weren’t fighting about the important things like how she was bothering more about her cases than their family or about how she wasn’t at home at all these past few days because they were sick and tired of talking about that. Kowalski has learned the hard way that their relationship was nothing but a repetitive cycle of being happy, getting angry, fighting before things became okay again. It was always the same thing and it would always begin to spiral with each new case. However, this time seemed different.
They were cold, especially cold. This unspoken war between the two of them has gone far longer than expected and they haven’t shared a single amicable moment since the last time he could remember. Today was no different. Kowalski went on about something, Jules didn’t agree and they went off. It was the same stupid cycle except this time, he didn’t want to be apart of it. He didn’t want to be apart of whatever this psychotic shit that they made is. He was tired and weary and what was the point of acting like he had a wife and wearing a wedding ring when she wasn’t even there in the first place? They were playing house and she couldn’t even see that.
“Stay?” He asked, repeating her words under his breathe as he paused. Hands coming to a stop from packing his bag as he turned to face her. Daggers in his eyes piecing her with his gaze. “You want me to stay?” He mocks her again. Kowalski didn’t believe what she was saying –– Not a least bit. If she wanted this, she would have put in the effort but she didn’t. Kowalski just believes that he was a constant, a comfort, for her to run back to when things were over. Something for her to rely on and keep herself sane when things got crazy but he couldn’t be that when she wasn’t there. His entire existent seemed to depend on her and maybe that’s why he hated every bit of this so much. He hated that he felt something when she said that. Hated that he paused to consider what she was saying even.
“Maybe if you said that a while back, I would. I would stay and we wouldn’t be here but I can’t... I can’t do this, Jules. I can’t do this over and over again.” He sighs. “I want to start a family with you... But you’re not even here.” So what if they got a dog? She wasn’t even there to take care of him. Most of the time, it was just Kowalski and the dog. Was he married to the dog or was he married to her? “You’re never here... You come as you please and leave when you want. It’s like... we’re not married in the first place.” And maybe she regrets that too. Who knows? “And maybe we aren’t because it doesn’t feel like I have a wife most of the time, Jules. I leave without you in the house and I come back home to this empty house so what’s the point of me staying? I’m sick and tired of coming home to an empty house. I have a wife, Jules, and she’s gone.”