Keep the Car Running
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Lee looks out on the cities they pass, the people, the craters in the road, the blood, the empty-eyed suffering, and sometimes she can’t remember where she is at all.
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- Part 1 of Keep the Car Running
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It's defeat in Lee she isn’t sure she’s ever let herself feel before. Enough to make her say, on the evening when the former WF calls a tentative “cease fire” both with themselves and the New People’s Army, “I want to go back home.”
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A little break from war.
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- Part 2 of Keep the Car Running
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Lee doesn’t say anything, figures she isn’t expected to anyway. She just sits, waiting. She doesn’t know how to ask the right questions to make someone feel comfortable sharing the darkest things they see in their mind. Doesn’t know how to find the words to explain all the things she sees, the nightmares and memories just another one of those unspoken side effects of doing what they do. It’s easier to pretend that the walls she puts around herself work.
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Jessie has a nightmare and Lee isn't used to being the one who can offer comfort.
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- Part 3 of Keep the Car Running
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Baby, I Know Pain is As Natural As the Rain (I Just Thought It Didn't Rain in California) by JackEPeace
Fandoms: Civil War (2024)
03 Jun 2026
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“I told you to be careful,” Lee says quietly, after two more chips of glass have been dropped onto the tailgate. She says the words quickly, almost as though she can’t help herself. Like while Jessie has been working to keep herself from screaming, Lee has been trying to force this down too. “I told you to pay attention.”
The ache in Jessie’s jaw matches the one in her knuckles, all of it pulsing in time to the heartbeat throbbing on her face. “I know,” she grits out.
And it’s true. Lee had. Of course she had.
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- Part 4 of Keep the Car Running