I said I'd try and make my chapters longer and, well, I failed. But there's only one more after this (and it's super-short!) so I hope you won't hate on me too much.
As per usual, I don't own the people, and the lyrics belong to The Fray. Thanks to delgaserasca for the beta.
All At Once
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All at once the crowd begins to sing,
sometimes the
Hardest thing and the right thing are
the same;
Maybe you want her, maybe you need her, maybe
You started to compare to someone not
there
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You know she's everything you dreamed of – everything you still dream of, because she haunts your dreams at night. She's always there, sometimes she's waiting for you, sometimes she's hurting you – the dreams mirror your lives - but you know that one thing remains the same no matter what: she's always there.
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He sits in his own quarters two hours later; he's done with his investigation for the night, he'll resume his duties in the morning. He finds himself thinking of girlfriends of the past; how she's not clingy like Jordan, not superficial and possessive like Reneé. She's needy and she can be vulnerable, but she's tough and she can hold her own; she fights her own battles (hell, most of the time, she wins) and doesn't need a man to hide behind.
He knows what he has to do, his mind is made up. His heart pounds wildly in his chest just thinking about it; he's tempted to shrug his shoulders and assign the task to tomorrow's list – but he can't, he has to do this and he has to do it now – or he never will.
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(TO BE CONTINUED.)