Trauma/Recovery Starter Sentences
@deammortale said: "I still see it every time I close my eyes." - nora
“i’m sorry---”
immediately as the words left his mouth, steven wanted to kick himself, and bit down faintly on his tongue. he had been told.. multiple times to stop apologizing for things that shouldn’t need an apology, but he just couldn’t help it. knowing that his twin suffered with the memory of seeing him as a giant monster was one thing, but he was fully aware that despite her devil may care attitude, nora was suffering from her own demons too -- they just weren’t as openly visible as a giant rampaging monster.
“i should have talked to you or someone about what i was feeling, i just.. wanted you all to think i was okay. i wanted to believe i was okay. i was always able to brush things off when i was a kid.. it was easy just.. thinking that things were okay, that they didn’t effect me. i never wanted it to get so out of control.”
the things he’d done to reach this point - shattering jasper, trying to shatter white, blowing up on nora, connie and the gems - the shame of it all burned him from the inside out, and he knew it wasn’t going to be easy to start accepting it all and moving to a brighter future.
“i wish you didn’t need to see me like that... you’ve been through enough as it is, too..”
