[What should have come with the same raised voice that she always brought out to match his yelling only left her lips in a mutter, voice thick with tears and hitching on the verge of sobs. She didn't want to cry in front of him. She didn't want to cry in front of anyone but least of all him.
She was supposed to be the strong one, the goofy grinning half demon humming in the kitchen and kicking ass out on the Skyway. But every day there was already a god awful struggle to keep how broken she really was a secret from everyone, and knowing she had been so close to death because of a careless misstep sent her too close to that edge.
She doesn't bother to stop him from getting up and moving. She can hear his heavy footsteps enough to know that he's just pacing, not storming out in anger. She tries hard to hold her composure, what little she has left, but it's already frayed and that last string has finally snapped. She puts her hands over her face and hunches over, sobs silent but causing her shoulders to quake regardless.]
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[What should have come with the same raised voice that she always brought out to match his yelling only left her lips in a mutter, voice thick with tears and hitching on the verge of sobs. She didn't want to cry in front of him. She didn't want to cry in front of anyone but least of all him.
She was supposed to be the strong one, the goofy grinning half demon humming in the kitchen and kicking ass out on the Skyway. But every day there was already a god awful struggle to keep how broken she really was a secret from everyone, and knowing she had been so close to death because of a careless misstep sent her too close to that edge.
She doesn't bother to stop him from getting up and moving. She can hear his heavy footsteps enough to know that he's just pacing, not storming out in anger. She tries hard to hold her composure, what little she has left, but it's already frayed and that last string has finally snapped. She puts her hands over her face and hunches over, sobs silent but causing her shoulders to quake regardless.]