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She has been injured a lot of times before. A few broken ribs, and some others bones, too.
She is used to the pain by now. She had learned to fight even if she's dying.
But this pain, an emotional one, of a heart that is breaking little by little, is something she is never going to get used to.
She maybe can fight with a broken arm, but she can't even breathe right when Chris is in that way, crying and sobbing, his entire body shaking and trembling.
An inside part of her is dying by only seeing him in that state.
There was a time where she would hide it, but now she can't care less, and all where her head is in, is the need to calm him. Is the need to be strong a little more, just for him, until he can calm down, and can breathe normally.
The need to be strong for him until he realized he isn't anymore in that horrible place, that he is safe now, and that she will die before he is taken into there one more time.
So she put her arms tighter around him and say the same things over and over so he will know that she is there for him, and he can go to sleep again.
And it doesn't matter if in someplace inside her, she is screaming and trembling because this is exactly the way were before when he was mad. It doesn't matter that the knot in her throat is hardly letting her speak, all that matters it that she needs to calm him down.
And she will, as she always does.
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It always warms Chris's heart to know that he is one of the persons, if not the only one, in who Clarisse trust with her true personality. But, at the same time, it hurting him, because it means he is able to see her in that state.
Because it means he can see the fear in her eyes, and that he needs to be stronger than he really is, because, in that moments he is her pillar, as she is and was for him so many times before.
It hurt him, but he will never fail to her again if he can avoid it, so he tries to comfort her in the only way he knows.
Someone telling stories to him until he fell asleep is an old memory he has from when he was a little child, and when he discovered that Clarisse has nightmares as he does, he tried it.
When he found out that it works to her as it used to work with him, he starts to dig in his head for old stories that could calm her, or at least distract her.
He is sure that he has told the same stories at least two or three times by now, but she never has complained.
And he will never tell her, but when she is finally asleep again, he remains awake, letting his hands play with her hair, because the mere idea of the person he loves most suffering as Clarisse does, wring his heart in the same way his nightmares does.
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Demigods' dreams, labyrinth's nightmares, and some random monster's attack, with the addition of the college, has both of them tired as hell, but when they are just chilling around, making fun of each other or just remain silent, they know that they will never change the life they have now.
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Long time, uh?
But I'm finally here and I only have only one exam more, so who knows, maybe I'll be updating more...who knows...
Anyway, as always, if you see any mistake, let me know.
(If there is anyone still there, thanks to you!)