through the tears
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When Vi stirs it is to a loud clang, sharp, discordant, hollow. The air is chilly, clammy on her skin. It takes her one desperate, confused heartbeat to realize that she's not back there, that she only left the window open.
Left it open.
More like didn't fucking remember stumbling up the stairs into this apartment, doesn't know if it's today that the makeup runs in smears down her cheeks still or if that was yesterday.
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- Part 1 of through the tears
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"Vi?" The voice that breaks through is familiar if worried, threaded through with an airiness, a tightness that doesn't sound right. "Vi? You're dreaming" —the tone takes on a sharpness that bites right through the cloud of sleep— "you're dreaming, darling. You're here."
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- Part 2 of through the tears
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It has been fifteen days.
To be precise, Caitlyn thinks as she pins her hair in place with shaky hands, it has been the same day, fifteen times over.
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- Part 3 of through the tears
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It is when she reaches out to brush Caitlyn’s shoulder that her world is turned inside out. One moment her fingertips touch wet skin and the next the hard metal of the muzzle of a handgun is pressed against her temple, and Caitlyn’s eye is wide, so, so wide even as her hands shake.
Something is wrong. Something is terribly wrong because Caitlyn’s hands never shake on a gun.
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- Part 4 of through the tears