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themidnightsonHe's tried. He knows he can't stay home yet, and he's already proven he can't stay there, and he's spent hours convincing himself it wasn't right to go to her like this. Especially not like this, in this state. It'd be disgraceful. Improper. Imbecilic.
Somehow he stills ends up, on his knees besides her bed, his arms crossed over her blankets at the very edge and his cheek resting on his layered hands. His body is an excruciating riot of fire from not having hunted since before the whole incident, but even in the agony of her scent he's loath to leave the first place he's felt he could breathe and think again in days. For any definition of those ideas.
And so he stays there. Not touching her for her safety, at war with his nature and his recent memories, enraptured by her slow breaths and the flicker of her eyelids and the soft words she murmurs from somewhere so very, very far away from him.
Somehow he stills ends up, on his knees besides her bed, his arms crossed over her blankets at the very edge and his cheek resting on his layered hands. His body is an excruciating riot of fire from not having hunted since before the whole incident, but even in the agony of her scent he's loath to leave the first place he's felt he could breathe and think again in days. For any definition of those ideas.
And so he stays there. Not touching her for her safety, at war with his nature and his recent memories, enraptured by her slow breaths and the flicker of her eyelids and the soft words she murmurs from somewhere so very, very far away from him.
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Date: 2009-12-04 03:41 pm (UTC)Bella feels vaguely triumphant at this dubious accomplishment, though her expression turns serious shortly thereafter.
"But to be honest, I'm not sure I can actually get more believable. I just can't imagine what would threaten any of you."
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Date: 2009-12-04 03:49 pm (UTC)And wasn't she just the stunning proof of that, too.
Even at this very second, hovering over the edge of sanity.
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Date: 2009-12-04 04:00 pm (UTC)In theory, she does.
"It's just a little hard to conceive of something bad enough to do... whatever it's done."
It was clear that whatever had happened, it had been bad enough. But Bella tended to characterize threats as malicious outsiders, never once thinking to look any closer to home. That limited the possibilities she had to work with.
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Date: 2009-12-04 04:08 pm (UTC)Trying to convince himself he could pull back at any second.
Trying to convince himself it would be lunacy to lean closer.
"I'll be fine. It was simply long, and surprising."