Comments | malruniel11: LJI - Season 9 - Week 2

malruniel11

LJI - Season 9 - Week 2 - The Missing Stair

Mar 24, 2014 04:27

Jonathan passed it off as a running joke. At parties and dinner nights with friends he would call Crystal, "my not-so-graceful ballerina," as he squeezed her tight or sloppily gave her a kiss on the cheek. Crystal kept her eyes down and flushed a bit and brushed off her apparent clumsiness with the same old line, "I kept climbing, but there were ( Read more... )

season 9, lj idol, domestic violence, the missing stair, freedom, week 2

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roina_arwen March 25 2014, 15:13:28 UTC

Ha - I liked how she decided she didn't have to be the victim anymore!

malruniel11 March 26 2014, 04:38:59 UTC

Thanks! Oddly, I didn't start this knowing that she would do that. She just suddenly looked up at me and did it.

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malruniel11 March 26 2014, 04:39:51 UTC

Thank you! I did, too.

lawchicky March 25 2014, 23:20:26 UTC

Oh how awful!

mallorys_camera March 25 2014, 23:35:48 UTC

Succinct. (Which I like better than wordy.) Well done.

malruniel11 March 26 2014, 04:41:19 UTC

Thanks!

beautyofgrey March 26 2014, 01:04:19 UTC

Go Crystal go!!!

(I appreciate that you ended this with some turnabout.)

malruniel11 March 26 2014, 04:43:04 UTC

I want to cheer her on, too! I'm so glad that she at least started planning things. All weekend long Crystal's ER report was what was going through my head. I knew she was married to an abusive asshole. I did not know until I wrote it out that she was going to find a way out!