brokethefirst: (☼ because happiness throws)

private; cw sensory details of surgery

[personal profile] brokethefirst 2017-09-06 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
England...

[He sounds so tired. More tired than she's ever heard him before. Moreso than anyone, even the personification of an entire nation, should ever have to sound. How badly she wishes she could reach through the screen to him, to let him know somehow past failing words that she felt so deeply concerned for him.]

You being okay isn't a burden. You... I-I consider you a friend, England. I don't...

I don't want you to be alone.

[It hurts too much, to be eaten at by loneliness, even if the reasoning behind it is sound. She can empathize, her chest twinging with a horrid sort of hurt.]

I understand how it can be easier if it is the norm... and if it's what you would truly prefer, t-then I... I can respect that.

But even if you've always been alone... it... it doesn't mean you have to keep being alone. Not forever. That's too cruel.
keepscalm: (040❦love knows it is a greater grief)

do u ever just cry a lot bc i do

[personal profile] keepscalm 2017-09-16 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
[A friend.

Funny; before he came to this town, he could probably count on one hand the people that have called him a friend in the past few centuries. And now, when he least deserves it, he's surrounded by people like Luna and Ginger and John.

He takes in a trembling breath.]
I don't deserve your kindness.

[He can't bring himself to tell her to leave him alone. He can't admit to wanting her company—what right does he have to ask for something like that?—but he can't stand the thought of her leaving again.]