whichcraft: lord deliver me for i know exactly what i will do (PENSIVE ♚ i am surrounded by idiots)
Summer "The Witch" Moran ([personal profile] whichcraft) wrote 2018-08-08 02:21 am (UTC)

[It's so strange, to stand here and listen to this, knowing the secrets she knows. It's so strange to listen to him apologizing for wanting to be needed, when she knows full well that one of her flaws is the complementary sin. Jason wanted to be needed, too. Jason always wanted to be a hero, to live out his delusions of grandeur, and she remembers how she'd played up the defenseless act early on just because it meant he would protect her, not for her sake but for the sake of having a damsel to save.]

...You ever heard of symbiosis? Ninth grade biology class. Two different organisms interact and there's all these different — like with parasites, it's good for one while also being bad for the other. Then there's another one, good for one but indifferent to the other. And then there's good for both. There's this fish that lives in the tentacles of a sea anemone, and the fish keeps away the other fish that would eat the anemone, and the anemone keeps away the things that want to eat the fish.

[She's babbling, maybe, but she's coming around to a point.]

I don't think...that it has to be mutually exclusive. And I think...you can like that I need you without liking me because I need you.

[And then she goes quiet a minute, with words caught in the back of her throat, before finally she manages to get them to dislodge and shake free.]

And I don't have anyone but I don't want just anyone — I want you.

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