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~ Chapter Seven ~
He held her that night as she slept, not being able to let go of her tiny body as he rocked her slightly back and forth, whispering words of comfort in her ears as her body lightly shook a little as her eyes fluttered, small moans escaping her mouth every now and again as she responded to a nightmare that everyone else could only just imagine.
He held her tightly as her grip tightened on his waist, her fists clenching as she tried her best to fight off the invisible monster that remained in her dreams and memories. He looked down at her, brushing some hair out of her sweating face as tears ran down his own face. He bit down on his lip as he thought about everything she had been through and yet here she was, with him.
He held her as he cried, burying his head in her hair to muffle out his own sobs of despair as he thought about how selfish he had always been. How he could have just cared about her and she wouldn't be in this mess right now, how he could have just stopped denying his feelings and just told her there and then, like he had been planning to do.
He held her and rubbed her back gently as he tried to ignore the feel of her bones underneath his fingertips, knowing that what had happened to her was to blame for all of this.
He held her in his arms as tightly as he possibly could as he planned ways to hurt this guy as badly as he could. He imagined wrapping his hands around his neck, he fantasized about punching him over and over again, he conceived the idea of hunting him down and showing him exactly how much pain he had inflicted on Sonny. If only he knew who it was.
He held her in his arms as she woke up, tears running down her face from her big brown eyes as she looked up at him, sighing in content as she wrapped her arms tighter around him and closed her eyes again, "It's not your fault." She whispered.
He looked down at her, shaking his head and then sighing, she knew him too well, "It is, you know it is."
"You weren't to know, it's not your fault."
"It's not yours." He muttered, he knew her too well as well.
She was taken back for a moment, opening her eyes only to close them again as tears cascaded down her face, "It is, I-I could have stopped him, I-I shouldn't h-have.." She sobbed, her fingers curling around his shirt, hot and heavy tears running down her face,
"It wasn't your fault, there was nothing you could have done to stop him. It's not your fault." He closed his own eyes, not bothering to hide the fact he was crying in front of her as he held her tightly in his arms, wishing her shaking body would relax as she sobbed into his chest, both of them just wishing the pain would stop.