008: I know my call despite my faults and despite my growing fears

[payingfordeliverance]

Who: Xerxes Break + CR
What: A catchall for springtime threads
When: March and April, perhaps even May
Where: Around and about

Content warnings: To be determined; will update as necessary

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[payingfordeliverance]

[Qrow's easy acceptance is far more comforting than any attempt at making Break believe he doesn't deserve the blame here could ever be. His acknowledgement arrives and passes and that is that. No need to dig further into what happened, or argue about just how much he ought to be kicking himself. Now, the important thing can be that Break is safe, and he finally starts to relax even as the unpleasantness of having his wounds tended to causes his breathing to hitch here and there.]

…I am, too.

[Qrow's affection over the bond is something Break would wrap himself in like a blanket if he could. That warmth is met with a sense of being reached for, thank you and glad you're here and want all at once. He pats around until his hand lands on Qrow's knee and rests there, keeping them in contact as he echoes his lover's thoughts without realizing.]

Even if we come back in the end, I…when that time came at home, I meant to be alone, but — Sharon and Reim found me, and I made such an awful scene and that was that. All our time together and now that's the last they'll ever know of me. It makes me crazy. To think of giving anyone else such horrible memories, to give anyone else that sort of burden to carry, I really can't stand it at all.

[His death at home is one of the nightmares Qrow sometimes watches him wake up from. It shows up in all kinds of ways.]

Oh, poor Ange. She was so frightened. I'm certain today will haunt her.