@braveobsessions ⠀—⠀ up for the horrors.
“My darling Josie, you see the good in everyone, but you shouldn’t see it in me.” He lifts one hand to place it on top of hers, face resting against her palm.
@braveobsessions He smiles in response but it doesn’t quite reach his eyes. He doesn’t believe he does, he has done too many despicable things, has inflicted too much pain to be deserving of his own happiness and it would be naive of him to assume his good deeds would ever be enough to make ⠀—⠀
@braveobsessions “I’ll be your personal dishwasher.” He nods, smiling a little, again. It just comes naturally when he’s around her.
As long as they keep talking, it’ll distract him from wanting to jump up and rip someone’s throat out in the middle of the street.
His eyes flutter closed ⠀—⠀
@braveobsessions He looks up and after her when she disappears to the kitchen, a faint smile tugging on his lips that is quickly replaced by his usual grumpy expression.
“I will. I promise. I’ll lick the plate clean, just for you.”
@braveobsessions Nodding obediently, he takes a hesitant sip of the soup, exhaling through his nose. It’s not as nutritious as blood, obviously, but it satiates his hunger at least a little, just barely enough for him to stay sane a little while longer.
“I feel like I might sleep for at ⠀—⠀
@braveobsessions “I was the reason you had to be saved in the first place. You could have just lived a long and happy life without all this … ”
He gestures an undefined shape in the air.
“ … insanity, if Herrick and I hadn’t been there that day.”
Fondness softens his features as he ⠀—⠀
@braveobsessions ⠀—⠀ from the unbearable urge to … well, kill.
Picking up the spoon, he listlessly dips it into the bowl, scraping it along the bottom of the plate. “Thank you. I mean it.”
@braveobsessions Tensing only for a moment when he feels her arms around him, he soon relaxes a little, turning his head to brush his lips over her wrist.
“I don’t believe in God but you’re an angel, I think.”
His voice is softer now, the smell of the soup momentarily distracting him ⠀—⠀
@braveobsessions Numbly, he follows along, feeling so unbelievably exhausted. He hasn’t had any blood in weeks and he feels the hunger clawing at the linings of his stomach like a caged animal.
“Soup sounds perfect.” He musters a weak smile, tightening the blanket around his shoulders.
@braveobsessions He nods slowly, breaths escaping his mouths in trembling puffs. He’s freezing, his heart rate at maybe one beat per minute.
“I’ll be gone by tomorrow, I promise. Just need to … just need to stay off the streets tonight.”