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almost_knightly) wrote2011-10-31 01:02 am
almost_knightly) wrote2011-10-31 01:02 am
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To bear with unbearable sorrow
Having spent more than enough time in bed of late, now that he's allowed to sleep in his own room and now that he has a pair of crutches, Break has been wandering around the mansion as best he can, trying to reclaim his own mobility. By rights, he really shouldn't be out at the moment -- Liam is elsewhere -- but one of the Hatters is shadowing him, he knows, and he's having one of those moments when he wants to manage things all by himself.
And in his defense, he's being sensible about it, stopping whenever he feels even slightly like he needs to. Such as now. He's resting in one of the sitting rooms, his injured leg propped up on a coffee table. It's pajama pants and socks with grippy bits on the bottom, today, and around his knee, there's a strange black brace -- something Liam had helped Canterbury to put together, to keep it from moving too much as Break shifts.
It makes him terribly nervous to be out and about alone, truth be told. But at least he's doing it. He has some notion that if he hides himself away in his room, it will only hurt Shelly worse...
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And in his defense, he's being sensible about it, stopping whenever he feels even slightly like he needs to. Such as now. He's resting in one of the sitting rooms, his injured leg propped up on a coffee table. It's pajama pants and socks with grippy bits on the bottom, today, and around his knee, there's a strange black brace -- something Liam had helped Canterbury to put together, to keep it from moving too much as Break shifts.
It makes him terribly nervous to be out and about alone, truth be told. But at least he's doing it. He has some notion that if he hides himself away in his room, it will only hurt Shelly worse...
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"Did you ever fight with your siblings?" He wasn't sure if Break had mentioned his siblings in the first place.
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Past tense, though Elliot may be too young to pick up on it.
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"Oh... did you guys have swordfights and stuff?"
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Break pulls a face, but secretly, he's gratified that Elliot understands so well.
"He liked stories about people who went to school and stuff. Not a knight or a pirate or a monster to be seen in any of his books. A lot of the stuff I like scared him.""
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"He wasn't a bad sort. We just...weren't interested in each ovver at all. That's the fing wiv families; sometimes you wind up having to be wiv people you'd never have been friends wiv if you'd met them ovverwise."
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"Ohh, I get it. My big brothers all fight a lot, sometimes... but we're still family..."
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He isn't quite sure he believes all that "blood is thicker than water" nonsense. Not when he has the Rainsworths, and Liam's family, too. Not when he had the Sinclairs, once, all treating him as though he were theirs. Not when he's seen what siblings will do to each other.
But he won't trouble Elliot with such things. He knows how the Nightrays are.
"Anyway, I'm sure she'll come around eventually."