✕ tell all; be free.

{ for @plcstics​, the one true daddy }

she hadn’t called. not because she didn’t care, but because no words could ever hope to bear the weight of their collective tragedy. two lost soul mates and six years of enduring grief had forged a divide between them, so vast that teddy couldn’t see the other side — and even if she had picked up the phone, there was nothing left in her to give. 

could the brief interlude they’d shared be lost to them for good? could mark forgive her for all these years of neglect? looking up into the eyes of her old friend, she feared more than anything that her words had come too late. 

{ for @strongscribed​ }

seeing arizona here again was like hearing music to an old dance she had long since forgotten the steps to. once so natural, these words had become worn and forced between them — no doubt a product of too many years spent apart. how could teddy possibly repair this relationship she'd so thoughtlessly lost to neglect? 

yet, she had to try. 

in honor of the discord group chat pins running out, here’s a compilation of our degeneracy.           {  presented by @strongscribed, @mcmachine, @tragichunt, @plcstics, @calliemetorres, @rcdivivus and other assorted trash  }

“ catfishing seems to be the preferred solution these days. ”

“ I didn’t offer to buy a strap on and wear it around. ”

“ be gone, straight boy. ”

“ this paper is so full of shit, I should make the text brown. ”

“ sounds like a whorehouse. ”

“ is this why I’m fat? ”

“ i’ll snort lube off a hooker’s ass. ”

“ you just cum? ”

“ city people nourish with juice and resentment. ”

“ I love falafel but falafel does not love me. ”

“ I flinched and tried to grab her arm but there was boob there instead. ”

“ I thought I was in labor at one point but it turned out I just needed to take a shit. ”

“ rhode island is a bitch ass dot. ”

“ I want a baby but then I remember I can’t give it back. ”

“ no one should eat any tampons. ”

“ I ripped my anus once. ”

“ at least I’m not a duplicitous bitch. ”

“ I see someone has a strong opinion about walmart’s plants. ”

“ too bad I can’t play with myself. ”

“ I am not hip with the kids. ”

“ it’s like, 8 inches, maybe. ”

“ they grip my balls and make me cough. ”

    {    for the best and only @rcdivivus​    } 

“I didn’t have a maid of honor, you know,” Teddy mused, her eyes as distant as the horizon. “It didn’t seem right to have someone other than you there... Maybe that’s why I never wanted a real wedding.” So many stories had passed them both by, absent and unvoiced. And Megan - somehow, somewhere along the harrowing way, she had become a mother. How had they done so much living without each other? Years of waiting and wasted days - but they had survived it.

@soldierheartcd

looking down at her daughter, teddy felt a strange kind of shame settle dark and heavy on her shoulders. delia’s entire lifetime had elapsed in megan’s absence, and all these years teddy had managed to love and live on. she’d started a family; a chapter of her life removed of the friend she loved as a sister. how could she have been so thoughtless?

but the past was too distant to retrieve now, and what mattered was that megan was here; megan was home. teddy was finally about to do what she should have done years ago - introduce her best friend to her daughter. 

“When..when are you going back? I’d really like to you stay for a bit..” His old friend finally back in the city. And seeing Teddy, he realized just how much he’d missed her. A little slip and he’d kissed her, something that perhaps he’d held onto for years. A weak moment though. Owen knew better and thankfully she had too. 

she couldn’t stop thinking of him; not of the kiss, not of the future that she could suddenly see so clear. her favorite human being on this planet - why shouldn’t Teddy want to be with him? yet it seemed that their clocks tolled at different midnights, for their timing had never, ever been right. 

lips turn up into a small smile as slender fingers maneuver his wife’s hair into elaborate braids. “you know that sister I told you about? well she’s got a daughter who loves her uncle henry– but the one thing uncle henry couldn’t do was braid hair… and my little monkey loved her hair braided, so I took the time to learn how to do almost any type of braid…” he admits as he finishes her hair. “it’s a hidden talent of mine.”

"You never told me you had a niece,” Teddy said softly, thoughtful but never accusing. “How come I’ve never had a chance to meet her?” In that moment, Teddy was struck by just how little she knew of Henry’s past—as if in all their haste to get married, they’d missed so many crucial pieces of their hearts. “I guess I haven’t had the chance to meet any of your family yet, either.”