@pyrify ------ CHERYL MASON / MEME. ‘ this pain will last forever. ’
yeah, it will. there’s nothing that can replace the loss of a loved one--- especially not a parent, not a child--- and murphy has known that since the sickening drop of his gut that hit when they pulled charlie’s body out of the lake. he’d known then that there would be a gaping hole in him, so violently ripped free from its form that he would always feel it, as if the hand that ripped it free was still inside his flesh. every day there’s a fresh pain left where charlie used to be, even now that he’s come to terms with it. more or less. as much as a father can come to terms with losing his kid the way he lost charlie.
he has a soft spot for her, that much is certain. she’s much older than his own child had been, but there’s something that he can’t shake about the fact that her father’s dead and his child is dead. both were killed, and both events had sent them...
“hey, i don’t know how much it helps,” he says, leaving off the implied because it doesn’t seem to help me much, “but i’ll listen if you need to talk. about--- anything, i guess.”
