❛ we're not going to fight her, she's the devil. and you don't dance with the devil cause you get burned. also in her case, because she has no rhythm and her hands are like little rat claws. ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @washsins ( this feels like a dean conversation )
85﹕ brock grabs gloria roughly by the hair . @rejectory
his fingers curled in her hair, sharp and punishing, tilting her head back with a force that dared her to push back. the pain flared in her scalp, she inhaled slow and deep, a ritual of the agony she graves. gloria held his gaze, unblinking, unmoved. breath hitched in her throat, not from fear but fury, caged and coiled like a venomous serpent waiting for its moment.
she smiles, but it's all teeth. all sickness and hunger. that familiar rot curled beneath her skin whenever he got too close. her hand snaps, pressing a thumb just under his jaw. the button to remind that she could drop him if she wanted to— if she needed to. pressure-honed and sadistic against the artery's pulse. ❛ what's it going to be, rumlow? ❜ a laugh slithers up her throat. all that violence she tries to forget, tries to hide under florals and martyrdom, breathes like a second pair of lungs.
❛ we fighting or fucking? ❜
something deep inside her stuttered to a halt. the words sank like a stone into a part of her that he inhabited…WOULD ALWAYS INHABIT. even after all this time, even after the wreckage they left behind. and god, there was so much of it. love had always carried a price. back then, it had tasted like urgency, like adrenaline and sweat and the marrow-deep sting of guilt after. whispered nothings between flak jackets, fingers curled tight in the dark, kisses and teeth pressed into skin like they were trying to rewrite the ending before it ever came. war made monsters and martyrs of them both. but frank… frank had always made her feel. too much, too fast and still never enough because she wanted him to live beneath her skin. ❛ you think i want to be the reason you suffer ? ❜ he’d split her open without trying, peeled back every wall she’d ever built and stood there like he didn’t even realize he was holding the pieces of her heart in blood-slick hands.
❛ i need you. ❜ so much that it's caustic, it's worn itself into the fabric of her twisted, brutalized soul. she let her gaze trace the battle map of his body, of all the healing that never took, all the scars she could trace by memory. she remembered every night since knowing him. a call never went unmissed, her door never locked. moments where loving him felt like betraying herself, her thin grasp on morality and fuck— betraying the memory of his family. she stepped closer, until her voice was right near his throat, her palm flat to the ribs that never set right. ❛ i don't know how to love anybody else. i don't know how to even try with anybody else. i'm not slipping away. ❜ her fingers trembled where they touched him, but she didn’t pull back. she couldn’t. ❛ if you're not here, i'm nothing. ❜
his body is a mess of old wounds — scarred over, stitched up, bruised as hell. joints crack, muscles pull tight, and there's a constant throb in his shoulder where the bone never healed right. pain is part of him now, background noise he can fight through. it's the guilt that guts him. the guilt that lingers. just having her near feels like a betrayal all over again. her presence is medicine, yeah — she quiets his mind for a moment, her voice smooths the anger in him, but she's also the wound. a reminder he didn’t just lose his family the day they were murdered. no, he lost them long before that. in the missed dinners, late nights staring at the ceiling with the taste of whiskey and her mouth on him, the cold space between him and the man he used to be.
still wanting her, after everything, is his punishment.
“ tired doesn't matter. ” he lets the words hang in the air. even if he was, even if he could tire himself out from chasing her like a goddamn dog, he wouldn’t walk away. she needs him just as much, even if she doesn't say it out loud. he doesn't do soft. he doesn’t do pretty words. but with her, somehow, it all feels like the one thing worth fighting for. “ i've kept going this long because of you. i’ll be damned if i let you slip away too. ”
inbox : aren't you tired of all of this? target : @medicbled