jupitersfortune: (anemone ❧ forsaken)
🌼 Operator 6O 🌼 ([personal profile] jupitersfortune) wrote in [personal profile] callmenines 2019-01-31 05:31 am (UTC)

["Or am kept alive long enough." He knew. Somehow, and she's really not sure she needs or wants to know how, he already knew. Of course he's hurting; who wouldn't? How can he stand it? Isn't she complicit in her own way, for watching it happen so many times and always keeping the secret? She can't tell him now. He'd hate her for it.]

Don't ap- [oh jeez she's getting choked up again] — apologize. You're not the one who needs to apologize. 9S...

[She looks down, shaking her head slowly. He deserves so much better, he always has, he and 2B, and whatever she can call a heart— her black box, she supposes— anyway, it hurts like a chill heavy weight settling into her chest.]

Hey...

[She reaches up and unfastens the veil, then drops it off the side of the sofa to deal with later. Bare-faced, she raises her head to look him in the eye.]

9S, c'mere.

[Leaning in, she puts her arm around him and pulls him in closer.]

I'm sorry.

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