Title: Broken Barriers
Pairing: TamaHaru
Word Count: 210
Summary: Haruhi contemplates something and maybe just maybe...
Haruhi was annoyed.
He had ruined her walls to keep her safe.
She had decided she was never, ever going to fall in love. What was the point? She had seen what happened when somebody died; her father had caved in on himself, collapsing into depression. One of the things she remembered vividly was her father coming home one night, frustrated and drunk.
It had ended with a bottle smashing against the side of her head.
Not that she had told her father the next day, he didn't remember anything, and he wasn't a bad person. It would have only damaged him further if she'd told him and it only happened once, she was fine.
Then he had come along, bounding around and proclaiming his love for everything and anything that had a pulse (and some things that didn't such as Kuma-chan).
She found him immediately annoying; he was accidentally stripping down her barriers with just a stupid grin here and a kind gesture there.
But maybe, maybe it was time for the walls to come down, maybe it was ok, maybe, as her father had said, in the end, it would be worth it even if it caused pain.
Maybe it was ok to let the closest ones in.