[ How can a heart feel like it's breaking at the same time it feels fuller than it can remember in so long?
Lucifer doesn't have words at first, listening in silence to her proclamation, but it's the softness of her song that pulls his hands forward to gently cradle the back of her head, to bend over and tuck their heads together. ]
I want you to be happy. [ A soft whisper into that space between them. ] That's all I've ever wanted for you. ...There's just so much... so much you don't know. That you shouldn't- shouldn't have to know. Life should be so much simpler for you- than it... became for me.
[ There had been a time when it was simple. When he was simple, too. ...Then he had dared to ask why, and that had been all it took to ruin everything.
And now, here is Charlie... asking Heaven why all over again. Like father, like daughter. ]
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Date: 2024-03-20 04:20 am (UTC)Lucifer doesn't have words at first, listening in silence to her proclamation, but it's the softness of her song that pulls his hands forward to gently cradle the back of her head, to bend over and tuck their heads together. ]
I want you to be happy. [ A soft whisper into that space between them. ] That's all I've ever wanted for you. ...There's just so much... so much you don't know. That you shouldn't- shouldn't have to know. Life should be so much simpler for you- than it... became for me.
[ There had been a time when it was simple. When he was simple, too. ...Then he had dared to ask why, and that had been all it took to ruin everything.
And now, here is Charlie... asking Heaven why all over again. Like father, like daughter. ]