Part 1 (of 2) of This Looks...not so bad?
Part 2: To Keep From Drowning
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Almost home. Kate considers requesting a ride, but they’re both battered and bloody and she isn’t in the mood for that awkward conversation.
Glancing down at the mess that used to be her favorite sundress, Kate frowns. It’s ripped in several places and spattered with blood. None of it hers. Probably.
She wishes she could just stop here and embrace Clint, but she wants to get home and out of what remains of her dress before the drying blood adheres the fabric to her skin.
She needs a shower and she needs Clint to hold her, if only she could combine the two. The thought makes her laugh and Clint shoots her a quizzical look. Kate shakes her head and mumbles “nothing”, and it is nothing because she knows it’s not going to happen.
Kate knows she’d scare Clint away with just the mere suggestion of something more than friendship and she’s always thinking tomorrow. There’s always tomorrow. Which is true - until it isn’t. One of these days one of them might not get back up from a fight and then what happens with chances not taken and moments missed? Will playing it safe be worth it in the end?
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