Another one! This week's prompt: "hurt". Hope you like! :)

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Carol refused to let herself feel the many losses she had endured. She couldn't. She wouldn't. There was no time to be given to selfish, quiet cries.

But when it finally happened, bursting out like a break in the dam, it was neither selfish, nor quiet, nor crying. It was selfless, it was loud, it was wailing into cupped hands, and when she fell, Daryl was at her side with an arm around her shoulder, a hand on her elbow, and a whispered "Don't let this hurt you" in her ear as he followed her on the way down.