This is probably a bit more hurtful than if you stabbed her again { @betteresurrection​ }

The response is unexpected, though she appreciates the fact that he even bothered to speak to her about it. She displays a small smile, a little forced, to hide the grief growing within her.

“You truly don’t want me to be a part of this family so badly?”

*records 7 more today*

there’s something to be said about the way Oliver’s mind works. he sees a dead animal, his initial thought isn’t to ignore it- it’s to take it into his arms and hold onto it until the stench becomes too much to bear. it’s definitely a bizarre sight to behold; he’s currently sat on the ground ( snow soaking through his clothes ) with a dead cat curled up in his arms. to be fair, the cat wasn’t dead when he picked her up. she was barely alive and there was no time to get her to the veterinarian because she passed away in Oliver’s arms only moments later, but dammit, he wasn’t going to let her die alone. at least in those last moments she knew she was loved.

he hadn’t expected anyone to find him here. he was quite content on just staying by himself with this poor dead cat for the remainder of time, but he’s interrupted as the question rings in his ears, his eyes opening as reality dawns on him. he slowly lifts his head to look at Jordan, refusing to let go of the cat in his arms. “i-i didn’t want her to b-be alone,” he says as his way of explaining his current predicament. this is what happens when he leaves his house on his own; he somehow stumbles across a dying cat in the middle of the road and stops to give it some love before it dies. he wasn’t going to just leave her there. it just didn’t seem fair to him, to just leave the poor cat alone in the snow, when its life was already so hard, why make death miserable, too ?? Oliver wasn’t about to do that to her. she was going to go home with him. maybe he’d find a taxidermist and have her stuffed- that way in death, she will be loved.

( @weavewilled )

* the weave surrounds them like a maelstrom. a hurricane of sensation, or at least it's so in her head, in her body.