Daffy was awake, and Elias felt like he ought to be able to breathe properly again. He couldn’t, but.
There was a look of frozen panic in her eyes that reminded him of how shaken she had been the morning after the break-in. And he couldn’t even move close enough to take her hand, because her mother was there at her side, doing the soothing and doling out explanations. All he could do was watch – watch Daffy’s hand on her heart, follow her gaze as it slid from her mother to him to the other man, watch it affixed to him for a strangely long beat.
Elias didn’t know what it meant – if it meant anything – but Daff was awake and the other man, Greengrass, was trying to leave. Elias glanced his way. He wasn’t about to stop him – though Daffy’s mother seemed to disagree – but he felt obliged to say something. “Thank you,” he offered, in a low tone.
At least someone had been there for her when it counted.
There was a look of frozen panic in her eyes that reminded him of how shaken she had been the morning after the break-in. And he couldn’t even move close enough to take her hand, because her mother was there at her side, doing the soothing and doling out explanations. All he could do was watch – watch Daffy’s hand on her heart, follow her gaze as it slid from her mother to him to the other man, watch it affixed to him for a strangely long beat.
Elias didn’t know what it meant – if it meant anything – but Daff was awake and the other man, Greengrass, was trying to leave. Elias glanced his way. He wasn’t about to stop him – though Daffy’s mother seemed to disagree – but he felt obliged to say something. “Thank you,” he offered, in a low tone.
At least someone had been there for her when it counted.
look ANOTHER beautiful bee!set <3