She comes into view in reality and some of those jagged pieces find their places again. The edges, the tension temporarily deflates.
She has already lived what he- what he just lived. She has already been through it.
He remembers. They were friends. They were close. There was a group of- a group of four of them. How can so much be the same and so much be horribly, terribly different? He falters like he's forgotten how to take a step. His eyes burn at the thought that- at the thought that there's someone else he can carry this with now, because he hasn't had that (has she? all this time?).
Peter opens his mouth but words fail to come out until they do strangled.
"You knew."
There's a pause in his shock, in the thunder that follows.
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She comes into view in reality and some of those jagged pieces find their places again. The edges, the tension temporarily deflates.
She has already lived what he- what he just lived. She has already been through it.
He remembers. They were friends. They were close. There was a group of- a group of four of them. How can so much be the same and so much be horribly, terribly different? He falters like he's forgotten how to take a step. His eyes burn at the thought that- at the thought that there's someone else he can carry this with now, because he hasn't had that (has she? all this time?).
Peter opens his mouth but words fail to come out until they do strangled.
"You knew."
There's a pause in his shock, in the thunder that follows.
"You knew the whole time."