treat me tenderly (for i am at your mercy)
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“A grown-up in a kid’s body,” his mother liked to say. But did they know the extent of the damage they’d done? A child, forced into adulthood before he was ready, thrust into a life of labor, of faith. A faith that he didn’t even really think he believed in, anyway.
And it wasn’t his brothers’ fault. Wasn’t his parents' fault, either. It was the hand he had been dealt, and he would live with it. He would.
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Dennis has a bad regression day. Jack and Robby just want their baby to be okay.
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And in an instant, it’s like the wave of calm they’d been floating on all day is shattered.
Dennis locks up, wrenching his hand away like he’s been scalded. Because he doesn’t need it. Because if he lets himself have it, then he is greedy. He is selfish.
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When Dennis is regressed, it's easy to ignore all the bad that he's been through. But when he is reminded of it, of the heartache he endured as a child, things come crashing down.
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The hallway light is off. Right down the hall, though, light spills through the cracks under the nursery door. Robby frowns, pads across hardwood flooring. His hand hovers over the doorknob, and he listens. Coming from inside are little hitched breaths, poorly stifled. A quiet sob follows. Robby opens the door before he can even think.
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Dennis wets the bed and forgets that he is no longer his father's child. Robby and Jack have to remind him.
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