there’s an elephant in the room when it comes to the reason why she reacts the way she does. it’s fairly obvious ; her brother died in her arms, she immediately responded with anger and the need for revenge... god, her mind is twisted up in hundreds of ways. while she barely knows john, he kind of reminds her of travis, maybe even her father. her father by looks, and travis by heart. loud breaths escape pursed lips, and she attempts to calm herself with the whole ‘breath in through the nose, out the mouth’ technique.
what she needs is that bit of human contact, that bit of humanity. john is able to give that to her. he has a calming aura, undeniably, and when he asks her to look at him, she does. focus on him, she distracts the cyclone of thoughts with the tone of his voice, the meaning of his words. he gives her one thing to focus on. the girl nods at his words, beads of sweat mixing with tears that run down her cheeks. ❝ i shouldn’t have left him alone with him. ❞ if she had stayed with him instead of going with everyone else, she would have been able to keep his head on straight. she would have been able to keep him from running to that building, getting himself killed by that.. child.
❀ // written for @gunsliiinger continued from here.