whichwayyoulean: (Peace offering)
The Once-ler ([personal profile] whichwayyoulean) wrote in [community profile] paradisa 2013-06-15 12:41 am (UTC)

If it's any consolation, you do amazing for someone who was never taught it. Is that how you learned to read people?

I guess we do. Even when it's really hard to.

[That's been the big roadblock for him in admitting his own feelings to her. That he doesn't deserve her. That he'd only hurt her. It comes as something of a surprise she understands that line of thinking, too. She understands, she's lived it, too. That knowledge does nothing to detract his feelings for her, quite the opposite, in fact. A part of his desperately wants to tell her, right her and now, that she is worth people caring about her, she is worth loving, that he-

But the fear is still there, and it's a difficult beast to slay. He settles instead for rubbing her back gently, shutting away that voice telling him to just kiss her or SOMETHING
]

But we are.

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