callmeemily: ([...] not think)
Raleigh Harper / Emily Watkins ([personal profile] callmeemily) wrote 2014-07-02 05:49 am (UTC)

"There's no making sense of it," she tells him lowly, her eyes searching his. "And that's okay. It's something- It's human, I think? Just- Just that people do horrible things, horrible things happen, and if we can, we... survive. You survived that, I survived the basement, and I'll survive this, too." They all will. "I think... accepting that... it does something to a person, but... but that doesn't mean it's a bad something, in the end?" She paused, and then very quietly, almost out of the blue. "Do... you have a t-shirt I could maybe- I just- there's b-blood on my shirt, and I can't-"

She just stops then. He knows. She knows that he knows and understands, and somehow, she maybe thinks this will be good for both of them, and there's- there's something she'll never say out loud, but there is something with what happened to Spencer and happened to her, that Joel won't ever get, and she thinks maybe.... maybe it's good, that Spencer will have someone who understands.

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