Title: Together
Author: AllOverTheWorld
Summary: I am not alone, not as much as I thought I was.
Authors Notes: Short sequel to I. Enjoy.
Things are different.
I still avoid going home, my bed still as empty and the hallways still as haunted as they were the day she died.
They will always be reminders of what would never be but slowly, slowly I am moving on.
It is not an easy process, to forget the past, not that I am trying to forget Claire, I never could, but the process of moving on is difficult.
I am not alone, not as much as I thought I was.
I have Stella.
Stella who pulled me from the fringes of myself and forced the life back into me.
Stella who made sure I ate and slept.
Stella who, for a long time, was the only person who could make me a smile, a real, genuine smile.
Stella who is the only person who even dares to reason with me.
Stella who carried not just her own pain but my own.
Silently and without complaint, she dealt with me, my temper tantrums, my mood swings.
She let me cry on her shoulder when I needed it, reminded me of my job as when I didn't want to hear it.
Slowly she helped me stand up from the ruins of my life and start to rebuild.
She knows a part of me will forever be ruined, the part of me that died with Claire, but she taught me that there still can be happiness in life.
She does the little things, some of these gestures she does purposefully because she knows that they make me smile, others, others will have power over me she will never know.
Like her smile.
Or her stubbornness.
Together we are healing.
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