her throat constricts the second she feels ingrid’s touch —— it makes no sense to her, how she wishes for it to revolt her and comfort her all at once, but her mind races so quickly she feels very little at all. her own fingers raise, so slow she can barely feel the air against her skin, until the pads of her own hands are pressed, feather-light, against the curves of her aunt’s hand.
‘ that’s just it —- I KNOW that, ever since I’ve known you I have known, but… ‘ she wants to say that’s not enough, that she’d tried to BREAK the bond between she & her sister, however fragile it already was. that she couldn’t just DECIDE on her own who was family and who was not. but she can’t tell her, can’t bring the words from the frozen, acidic taste in her throat. her eyes crinkle, refusing to cry in front of ingrid, but just the icy TOUCH of her aunt’s fingers could bring her to her knees somehow. she crumples into ingrid, cursing herself for doing so, but she falls into her frame anyway, eyes slightly wet, body limp against her, begging her —- understand me, validate me, tell me this isn’t how I’m supposed to feel.
her niece’s COLLAPSE is inevitable; ingrid knows this — but she does not expect such a physical fall, and it is more than possible to compare it to a cave-in, a breaking & folding of slender edges altogether, and ingrid SOFTENS at the sight of it. her niece does not deserve this AGONY, but it is perhaps necessary, and it is not something that she likes to watch — but necessary things are not often enjoyable things. her softening is as very inexorable as elsa’s falling apart. she BEARS the slight burden of elsa’s weight pressed all-too-sudden against her, pale-clothed limbs tangling around the girl, pulling her close. it is as much an embrace as it is an attempt at keeping them both on their feet and steady.
❛ shh. ❜ soft, beckoning; fingertips drawing circles against the center of elsa’s back, slow & soothing. ❛ it’s alright, my sweet girl. you don’t have to explain ANYTHING to me. i understand. i know that this, right now, is difficult for you. but i am here. i am your family, and that is all that either of us truly needs. ❜
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