#infancyheels

                one simple ‘ can i talk to you for a minute ‘ just about brought every worst case scenario to mind. maybe he’d said something offensive that he couldn’t quite recall. maybe he’d done something to warrant some sort of chat off in private. maybe she was just mad at him in general. he’d never know if he stood around running around in his own thoughts so quickly, he just about skitters off after her. 

             ❝ look— if i’m in trouble for something... could you maybe... tell me in advanced ? just in case ? so i’m mentally prepared ? ❞

Once again

I beg for just a day

Let me feel the revelry

Before the heartbreak

The anguish and burdens

That are imminent with life

Let me go back to a time

Before all I felt was

Death in the light and

Vex was determined to forget all about the fact that her rehearsal dinner almost turned into her funeral. The impromptu ceremony on the cliffside turned into an impromptu reception. She avoided wine, preferring to go for something a little stronger. She wasn’t sure she’d ever drink wine again, or at least not for a long time. For now, though, she would ignore the terrible things that had happened and focused on the good.

“About that...” Coming to sit beside her daughter, Aurora reached for Audrey’s hands. “I’ve been talking with your father and if you don’t want to go back, you don’t have to. We’re happy to arrange for a tutor...or maybe a transfer to Sherwood. Whatever you want. All you have to do is say the word and we’ll make it happen.”

It pained Aurora to see her daughter so unhappy. To know that her heart was breaking over what happened with Ben. Ben, who Aurora was now convinced never deserved Audrey to begin with. If she could remove even the tiniest bit of that hurt, she would.

PEPPER WATCHES AS THE BLONDE WOMAN SEEMS TO THINK CAREFULLY; reading body language was something she had become quite proficient in over the years and years of working both for Tony and running the company. People were not always so forth coming; the skill had become a lifesaver. She isn’t entirely sure why she asked in the first place; just things Tony had mentioned in passing that stuck in her memory. One of which was his instant like to Danvers — not that she could blame him for taking a shine to her when she had saved him form the brink of death. She wasn’t sure if she’d ever take her up on that; at the moment all she really wanted to do was fall asleep for a hundred years. Yet, despite all of the well wishes and condolences, this was one Pepper actually appreciated. “ Thank you... I’m sure you’re very busy...  up in space... ”  it was weird to think and say as a commonplace thing still; “ I appreciate it. ”

           𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐀𝐑 , her arm wrapping around the other’s lower back in a half-hug . ❝ now let’s just get you into something fabulous ! ❞