#avery.

" this would be so much better , if you weren't just here for my money . "

I GUESS WE DOIN CIRCLES NOW.

' excuse me ? ' turns herself in the direction of their voice , scoff emitting her lips . ' i ... i am not a tease , it was an accident okay ? didn't you figure that one out when i , you know , didn't respond to your unsolicited nude ? '

he shifts back, looking down at his beloved five year old daughter. she's become a talker, having gone from staying quiet to chatting everyone's ears off just like her mother. he remembers leaving her a few weeks after her second birthday. sarada runs faster than he remembers. a flash to a three year old. clinging to her mother's apron. a four year old. she's slightly scared of him now, a bit forgetful of sasuke's presence. (it stings more than he wishes to admit. but he has to do it.) he's lucky to have naruto, a friend in high places always him this reprieve, offers sarada and sakura protection. this time, sasuke stays long enough to spend weeks with them, memories of his own mother and father painting the same mornings that he spends running with sarada as sakura laughs. it's blissful. it's all he ever wanted. but a scroll comes, a mission calls. he has to protect his family. he has to protect her. sasuke crouches down, meeting her at eye level. of course. she thinks she'll go with him — naturally his daughter is an expert at fighting, likely to be a great hokage one day. a great ally to him. but not yet. ❝ sarada, you can't come with me. ❞ his fingers quickly brush her cheek, trying. he's not gentle by nature, he's learning. picking up actions from sakura, picking up the love sarada and sakura have left her. ❝ i need you to stay here, to take care of your mother. ❞

@quakersamwinchester hold on. the demon purification ritual is ALSO the eucharist bc ruby is consuming sam’s blood you are so right. god. she should actually drink it just for the narrative symmetry. both of them realizing that god is not found in one another because it’s so much bigger than both of them just in the concept of love.. that love being the thing that can cure a demon through tainted blood. this is making me insane.

‘ ¿perdimos el bus? bien ‘ debería preocuparse, porque seguro no vuelva a pasar el mismo hasta las primeras horas de la mañana, pero le han venido tan bien esos días fuera que verdaderamente no le importa esperar un poco en la noche. tiene cigarrillos y batería, es lo que le importa . ‘ nadie nos va a comer aquí. cambia esa cara ‘ habla por hablar, dirigiendo mirada hacia acompañante desafortunado también.