merry christmas, amy! here is a (very short) toddviola for you and i hope it's not too disappointing. ily baby.


She waits for him.

She'll always wait for him.

Sometimes the hope is stronger than before, sometimes she feels it clearer and clearer, reaching out as though she can almost touch it, almost see Todd's eyes flicker open and a smile spread across his face—

Sometimes she sees him in her mind, getting out of bed and smiling so wide that all she can do is blink back the tears and utter out his name—

"Todd?"

And sometimes the hope is weaker, fainter. She has to try, try so hard to feel it and there's always a lingering sense of doubt, one right behind her that she can't quite brush off, can't tell to go away. The doubt scares her. It's a signal of everything that she could lose, everything that could happen.

Because even with her thinking of all the what ifs, there's always the bad ones too.

What if Todd doesn't wake up?

What if he's changed so much he's not my Todd anymore?

What if?

What if?

And it haunts her, tears at her. She keeps reading but she doesn't know if it's ever gonna be enough, if simply reading to him will make him see, help him see that he is Todd and he is alive, after all he's been through, he is alive, and Viola is right there.

Todd lies there for what seems like eternity. Sometimes his noise reaches out to Viola and she wonders, maybe, maybe he'll wake up. And it calls out.

Viola?

Viola?

Viola.

When he calls her name, his noise calls out with so much more clarity that it makes Viola stop for a moment and just stare at Todd, at her Todd and wonder, maybe if, maybe if he'll wake up. Because throughout it all she can hear him call for her and she calls right back, using his mother's words but calling nonetheless—

Viola?

Viola?

And for all the time he lies there, all the moments Viola spends reading from his mother's journal, even though the doubt pushes at her, trying to force her to give up and give in, to say that Todd isn't coming back, not once does Viola give up. Not never.


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