[ The pain resonates, threatens to trigger his guilt all over again. He can't promise her that everything will be okay after this. It won't. Nothing can change the loneliness that she was forced into as a child, and that empty place inside her, at least the one that once connected her to Parker, won't ever be filled again.
All he can offer is this place to release some of her pain, someone to share it in this particular moment. He only knows how to move forward, tunnel-visioned at times, but his isn't a bitter march to the end.
He lets her sob into his shoulder, arm rising and falling with each shuddered breath and unable to tell how much time passes until he can start to sense that she's getting to the point of exhaustion. That's when he shifts his arm again, gives her a gentle nudge to try to get her to lie down where it would be more comfortable to sleep. ]
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All he can offer is this place to release some of her pain, someone to share it in this particular moment. He only knows how to move forward, tunnel-visioned at times, but his isn't a bitter march to the end.
He lets her sob into his shoulder, arm rising and falling with each shuddered breath and unable to tell how much time passes until he can start to sense that she's getting to the point of exhaustion. That's when he shifts his arm again, gives her a gentle nudge to try to get her to lie down where it would be more comfortable to sleep. ]