meme: concern memestatus: accepting

It had been a rough day, but thankfully a day off work. She doesn’t have to go out. Doesn’t have to see anyone or let anyone see her like this. These days happen occasionally. Days where she can barely get herself out of bed. Where the past pulls at her, weighing her down and making it hard for her to get out of her own head. 

A cigarette with coffee for breakfast. She can’t even make herself go out to the fire escape, so she sits at an open window and breathes smoke out into the city air. A second cigarette around lunch, and then a third before she can make herself move to the sink to try to clean. She’s in a haze as she starts to scrub last night’s dishes clean, working on autopiliot as she tries without much success to keep her mind focused on things in the here and now.

She’d given Clint a key. Told him he was welcome anytime. It was yet another olive branch. Another attempt to build some kind of a relationship with him again. Maybe she should have told him that she wasn’t feeling well today and just needed to be alone. It wasn’t something she’d thought to do, though, Unfortunately, with her head the way it is today and her standing over the sink washing dishes, hearing a key in the lock and the door opening is a recipe for disaster. 

Her heart nearly stops and the soapy plate she’d been scrubbing slips from her fingers. It catches the edge of the sink as it falls, breaking before it even hits the floor, where it shatters further. By the time Clint’s made it to the kitchen, she’s gripping the edge of the sink with one hand while the other hand is pressed to her mouth to try and stifle the sound of crying.

Jessica & Clint aesthetics: @thedeafarcher​

Living on your knees isn’t the most difficult thing, James thinks. He’s been told what to do and how to do it for so long that it doesn’t even phase him, not even for a second. He never had to worry, because he was too valuable an asset, for them to actually hurt him more than he had already done, and he was pretty sturdy. 

“I can arrange that.” It’s an offhanded comment. 

If it’s possible to have a look of surprise under a domino mask, then Damian achieves it, the look turns into quiet confidence, looking superior despite his small size.