title: silence is a girl's loudest cry
rating: pg
fandom: boardwalk empire
character(s): meyer/anna
summary: it’s a stupid question - do you have to go? but she wants so desperately for him to stay...
words: roughly 900

( New York City, 1929... )

He attempts to breathe life back into his half-frozen fingers, the flesh stretched painfully thin over cracking joints and aching bones. For hours, he’s been at his post, guarding the soldiers behind him (kept warm with dreams of home and a world without war). At the beginning, he nodded off three times, exhausted from the last three days of ( Read more... )