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 Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:09 pm
Once they were out of the park, and they were in her house, with no one else around. Harley turned to Helen and reached for her.
The bottles had been terrifying. When Hitch had died....when Helen had died. When she watched them be crushed alive, it all came back like floods, terrible terrible floods of pain and anger and sadness.
She was gripping Helen so tight her knuckles were almost white.
"I can't do that again." She didn't sob but her head bent down, forehead touching Helen's shoulder. "I can't lose you or Hitch again." She wanted to kiss, to touch. She wanted to mar her mark on Helen now, and it felt like she was attached to the adrenaline still running through her veins.
It desperately wanted to claw out and demand but she didn't. She just...held. Just held on.
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 5:39 pm
Helen was trying very her damnedest to just be numb to everything that'd just happened and she'd been doing a remarkably good job of it on their way back to Harley's place. If her hand was a little tight around Harley's, pulse a little quick...well, that was understandable. She blinked as Harley turned to her, like a person waking up from some deep slumber, and frowned at the look on the pretty face turned up to her. Automatically she reached back for her, drawing her into her arms so she could press her lips to the other girl's forehead. "You aren't going to lose me." It was a hasty promise, one she wasn't entirely sure she could keep, but she was going to try. Hands on her Harley's waist kneaded at her sides, sliding along to the small of her back and up along her spine. She could feel the tension in the smaller girl's frame. "I'm not going anywhere, Harl."
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:30 pm
"You don't know!" She pushed away, pacing for a moment. "Just like that-" Her fingers snapped in the air, "Gone. Crushed under a ******** coffin. Eury! Crushed, under a giant ship!"
She was shaking and she needed to do something with her hands.
"I was so scared, I am still....so scared. Just thinking about it. And what were those battles? They weren't those monsters we faced. They aren't youmas, and that wasn't negaverse."
She looked up, "Why don't we know anything about this war? Are we only fighting monsters here, or is there worst things out there?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 2:21 pm
And that was the hard truth of it; she didn't know, and no amount of promising to the contrary would make it so. Helen made a helpless noise as Harley jerked out of her arms, reaching back for her automatically only for her hands to fall short of actually touching her as she listed off what had happened to her and Eurydike And a response formed on her tongue at that, snappish and entirely unhelpful— and what about you?. What about having to see Harley laying on the ground at the end of it with the cemetery destroyed and no indication that she'd be coming back. Helen swallowed it back, emotions flicking over her face too fast to decipher. "I don't know." And Helen hated admitting that. Hated that they were no closer to understanding the war they'd been thrust into now, than they had been when they'd first awakened. "But maybe we can find out." Careful fingers brushed Harley's arms, coaxing her close again. "Maybe your cousin has some answers, or knows someone that does. We can ask around and someone will know something." Someone had to know something. At the very least it wouldn't hurt...
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 5:27 pm
She almost expected for Helen to snap back at her, fight with her. She was looking for a fight, she was pent up, angry. Wanted to hold on desperately, wanted to push away for her own sake.
It was a strange amount of things bottling up and by the end of it, tears formed again and she brought her hands up .
"No war is worth you and my cousin." She let her hands fall to Helen's, taking them and bring both of them to her lips.
"I didn't understand how important you were to me until now. That's just as equally terrifying. Hitch is so new to me, but...but well..." She shook her head. "You are my best friend, and more." She kissed the other hand. "We can ask, I think he'd like that too. I think we could look around more too. Ask other people..."
She waited a beat more. "We need to get better at fighting." She tried to say light heartedly, trying to shift the mood. She was Harley, the brighter of the two. The energetic. Helen was thinker, she was the doer.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:13 pm
Oh ********, please don't cry. He didn't see it, but the stricken expression that flashed across her face when she noticed the tears practically screamed it for her. She hadn't seen Harley cry since they'd been in school together. The silver haired girl was always so strong, so upbeat and vivacious. Seeing her fall apart like this, hurting, helpless, it made Helen's chest ache, and there was a lump forming in her throat that threatened to choke her. As Harley took her hands a tiny bit of the tension tightening the taller girl's shoulder eased, just a little, and she gave those delicate fingers a reassuring squeeze before they stilled under the press of soft lips. "Harl..." "I didn't understand how important you were to me until now. You're my best friend, and more." It was everything Helen had wanted to hear from her friend for ages now. From the moment she'd realized that what she felt for Harley was more than just platonic friendship. But in that moment, under these circumstances... It left her floundering for a long moment as Harley kissed her hands, conflicting emotions welling up to compete with the already present exhaustion, both mental and physical. The lighter tone seemed to snap her out of it, and dark lips twitched up in the shadow of a smile. "We can do that." They could find someone to train them. They could find more allies. That, at least, she was confident about and that surety let her use the grip Harley had on her hands to draw the other girl in close again, brow to brow. I thought I'd lost you...She closed her eyes to hide the sheen of tears as she tipped her head to catch the other girl's lips in a long, lingering kiss.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 9:11 pm
"Now you've seen me in one of my weakest moments." Harley joked, her voice a bit shaky. It was back and forth between the good side of her, and the sad side of her. It reflected in the pools of blue that were doing there best to drain what was left of the tears.
She didn't expect Helen to answer her. She wasn't sure how important she was to Helen. She didn't know how important it was to label them now, and honestly, she didn't want too. She knew she was scared, and she knew that Helen mattered and was important.
That was worth its own protection by not pressing it either.
"I think...I think we could find new teammates too..." She suggested, only because it was them two now. They were two against so many. "You're a leader Helen, so you need people to lead." But it was a talk for another time and her mouth was pressed into Helen's, her hands gently holding on to the other womans.
She was less urgent now, melting against her woman, wrapping arms around the raven haired's neck. All she wanted to do was be right there, in her arms.
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2019 7:09 pm
The kiss was a grounding thing, a reminder that they were both here and whole in the face of everything they'd been through that night. Harley's arms came up to loop across Helen's shoulders, and the taller girl slid her arms around her slender waist in turn, drawing her in closer, lifting her clear off her feet at the very end of it. But there had to be an end, because they both still needed to breath, and Helen drew back breathless and dazed. Dizzy enough that she lowered Harley back to the floor. Resting her brow against Harl's again she met those pretty baby blues. "You're the most important person to me in this world, Harley." A classmate, a teammate, a friend, and now this, whatever this was. Like her, Helen was in no hurry to try to define it. They didn't need labels, they just needed each other. Grip loosening, she reached up to brush away a lingering tear track with the bud of her numb. "Let's go get changed, okay? I just want to curl up in bed with you and sleep until next week."
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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 12:04 am
"Yeah, Yeah that sounds good. Let's do that." She sniffled to get rid of the last of the tears before leading Helen to her bedroom.
At night, she cuddled even closer then she normally did, brushing at Helen's hair before leaving the woman alone to relax. And when she felt the heavy breathing of sleep next to her, she turned to face up at the ceiling and will sleep to come to her.
She was plagued by memories of the event, but soon they faded and all she heard was the quiet lull of her Helen besides her.
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