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          ❛ are you from here or has it just been a long time since you had a vacation?? ❜

“ well, i’ve never been to new york city before… “ guess you could say this was one of the cancer perks. being able to move, at least for a little while. despite major convincing and every doctor in the area on speed dial. hazel spoke again as she adjusted her oxygen cannula. “ wow… “ she was taking it all in.

      ❛ it’s definitely something, yeah. and this is just brushing the surface of it, evidently. ❜

fingers clutched at air as her body fell backwards against the counter, body sliding slowly down to the ground. a mother would never admit being closer to one child or the other, but laura was always closer to lila. be it because she was her only daughter, they always connected more slightly. “no.” there was a broken sob past her lips, a few tears rolling down her cheeks as the threatened to break free. “she can’t have.” the words are soft, spaced between shaky breaths, as fingers moved tiresomely through her hair. lila was never meant to die before her – laura was meant to die before all her children. “i don’t believe you.”

for: @bcrtoniisms

spazyspud (via wnq-writers)

bruce makes a new friend at the barton household en route to dinner

Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight (via thephoenixwrites)

What you might call a continuity error, I call two very sweet moments between father and daughter. Yes, he high fives her in the first gif. (And not quite as important: that’s a huge grill! The Bartons will throw some amazing barbecue parties for the Avengers later.)