restinglichface: DO NOT TAKE ANY ICONS W/O PERMISSION ([anger] Greg fucking Grimmaldis!)
lup 🔥 ([personal profile] restinglichface) wrote in [personal profile] pocketspa 2017-08-07 04:24 am (UTC)

[Lup had thought that her disappearing with nothing but a note left behind would be the worst thing that could have possibly happened to Taako in the time between where they both came into Hadriel from. But this is just so, so much worse.

Yet at the same time, so many of the puzzle pieces now slide effortlessly into place. Even if Lup would have left, even if something had happened to prevent her from coming back, Taako would have found her. There's no doubt in her heart that he would have looked tirelessly until he'd succeeded. Ten years may be nothing in their lifetime, but it's too long a period of time for him (and Barry, her heart drops) to have not found her, even if she had gotten, uh, sucked up into that umbrella, like he was currently implying. If Lup had the power to burn her own name into a wall while trapped inside, she knows she would have caught Taako's attention the second she felt his presence nearby.

Unless, of course, something had kept him from searching. If someone had kept him from hearing her.

It would have been impossible for Lup to not feel the familiar boil of rage under her skin at this crushing betrayal of trust, sparks already dancing dangerously off the fingertips of her free hand, the one not entwined so tightly with Taako's. Lup feels like screaming. She wants to explode and rage and consume the entire world just to make this right, to make the suffering her brother was still so obviously enduring go up in flames. Anything to keep him from breaking down like he was, so close to actual tears, more emotional than she'd seen him since they were children.

Sure, Lup may have started this whole chain of tragedies with the creation of the relics and her abrupt disappearance, but she hadn't been the one to finish it. Lucretia had.

Gods, that truth fucking hurt.

But Lup huffs instead of exploding, breathing out through her nose, attempting to calm down the dangerous energy surging within her. Trying to clear the red from her vision. She's furious and there's no doubt she'll be wasting all of her spell slots blowing shit up after this conversation, but Taako is right there, shaking and nearly sobbing, reaching out to her for once, actually closing the division between them that has felt so gaping wide since her arrival. How could Lup possibly push him aside now just to let herself burn up in anger?

She may have unintentionally taken that path in the past, always so focused forward that sometimes she missed that he needed her, but never fucking again.

It's awkward as hell with the umbrella so tightly in his grasp, but Lup surges forward to wrap her arms around her brother, engulfing him completely and dragging his head to her shoulder. They are both a mess, shaking and wrought with emotions that neither can really put into words, but her fingers curl into his shirt and his hair and there's just no way she's letting go of him now. Taako may not cry, but Lup does, the combination of her suppressed anger and way he made her heart ache just enough to leave her eyes prickling with tears.

What can she even say? What is there even left to be said? For once, no stupid jokes are sitting on the tip of her tongue. Everything is just too raw.]


I'm here, Taako. I'm just... I'm here.

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