New and Old Wounds [Closed]

[thethirdhalfa]

Dani had an amazing ability to focus if she needed to. Just to focus on that one thing and let everything else take the back seat. However, she needed to HAVE that something that could be the focus without it just leading right back to what she was trying to ignore

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Halp how does I do emotions?

[echoofaperson]

Iniss was almost unwilling to allow her to pull away. Everything he had learned to this point was telling him something was wrong. Something was very wrong and Dani was hurt.

"Dani..."

How was he supposed to handle this? What was he supposed to do for her? "Dani-" It wasn't ok, he couldn't lie to her and tell her it was. He couldn't lie to her. Not even those nice safe lies that humans seemed to enjoy telling so much.

He reached out, settling a hand on her shoulder, at a loss for words and reactions. "I'm here." It was a useless statement, it felt useless and worthless and pointless. She knew he was here, she'd brought him here. Why did he feel the need to reaffirm his presence? "What can I do?"

Stumble through them like humans do~

[thethirdhalfa]

What could he do...? What could anyone do? The past couldn't be changed and there was no chance at redemption for something like this. To ask for forgiveness. And for the one who could try and gain forgiveness probably won't even if there was a high chance he was in the pods.

"I...Tom...we have to help Tom. This sort of thing....it's enough to destroy someone," Dani said, her voice wavering as she took deep breathes, even if she didn't need them, in an effort to calm herself.

Cue bungling affection?

[echoofaperson]

"Dani, Tom will wait. How can I help you? You're hurting. It won't do any good to try to help him and hurt yourself further." Practical as the statement was, he was really more concerned about the child in front of him than the host willfully blocking out the world in the back of his mind. Tom would wait, Tom could be distracted by good memories being triggered while he dealt with Dani. "Because 'this sort of thing' is obviously well on it's way to hurting you. I don't want that."

/o/

[thethirdhalfa]

"It's already been on it's way!" Dani snapped. "That...it's...I dealt with it. Just seeing both parties for that pain at once..." She clenched her hands, pulling at some of her hand with her hands still against her forehead.

"I...it's old. It's old and I didn't expect to be reminded so suddenly. But I can't...I can't ignore Tom. I know how he feels. I know how much it hurts and he isn't like me who knows...who knows what it's like to both having done it and be the victim of it."