soon you'll see the sky fall

[bibrid]

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[tuumest]

I want Kieran safe. I don't want her health declining while I'm going after life.

( But, it's not his to want, is it? )

[likeaweapon]

I don't think that's something you can control.

[Her health is going to do what it does, because the disease isn't something they can control.]

But eventually she is going to make a decision - witch or vampire, life or death, and what's that done, where will that leave you?

[tuumest]

I don't know.

( And that has to be okay. )

Our father had Huntingtons. I watched him decline right in front of me. I told myself, I couldn't let that happen to my sister, not if I could help it. And then I got duped. And almost threw my life away. She never would've forgiven me.

[likeaweapon]

I think it's clear that whatever life she has, she wants you in it. But she can't be your entire life either.

[She pauses as she considers what to stay next.]

And it's alright to take your time with figuring out the rest. I mean, it took me five hundred years to realize that I really did want a family. Granted, you shouldn't take that long, but consider it on a human scale.

[She's teasing, mostly.]

[tuumest]

Hey. I do the right thing, mix the right herbs, find the right person, five hundred's not that far off.

( And if not five, maybe a hundred or two. )

I have to let her go.

[likeaweapon]

Not completely.

[Because you can never let family go completely. There's always the invisible tether that holds you together, always and forever, as much as that could be twisted to use against her family at times.]

But enough to give you both room to grow.

[tuumest]

Every synapse is firing with 'Save my sister.' All day. Every day. Ever since she was diagnosed. But, I can't. I can't... be the one. And I have to accept that.

( Difficult is what it is. )

[likeaweapon]

That's the hardest thing, really. If I ever figure out how to make it easier, I'll be sure to tell you.

[But you can't fix everything, no matter how much they want to.]

But I'm sure there's a way out there somewhere.

[tuumest]

( He feels it, a change in the wind. )

You feel that?

( It's over. )

[likeaweapon]

[She nods.]

Let's get back then. Make sure everything is all in one piece.

[And with that, they return to the chaos of the penthouse.]