Closed: Need to not be here.

[gabetate]

After Susan had told Gabriel about Cecilia, he'd had a bit of a meltdown. He was man enough to admit that sometimes he fell apart over things. His triggers weren't even all that difficult to pinpoint, all things considered. There were a few that he actually hadn't had to face in years, not since his release

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[ccecilia]

It had been only a week

[gabetate]

Every creak he heard, every step outside the door made him jump. His nerves were flayed open and anxiety so high that he felt like he couldn't hang on to his sanity for very much longer. There's a reason he'd been in St. Mungo's for longer than the physical wounds required

[ccecilia]

He was the very last person she ever expected to see here. And it wasn't because of the nature of their relationship, or friendship, or well, whatever it had become in the last decade. It was because she knew. She knew what had happened to him here. She knew how much this must be paining him and if she hadn't cried everything she had in her, she probably would now.

"Oh, Gabe-" she said, taking a shaky step forward, thankful for the back of the chair to steady herself.

"I'm so sorry-" she told him. "Please, you don't have to stay- I mean- Merlin, do you know what I've done? You don't-"

She coughed, her body still wracked with cold.

"You don't want to see me."

[gabetate]

Gabriel shook his head. He didn't have to be here. There was no way Cecilia would have held it against him if she'd even had any way to know that he knew where she was and hadn't come