2 Works by yada
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“...How about you?” she asks.
“Hmm? What about me?”
Lucy pauses, her words slow when she finally responds.
“Are you ok, Tim?”
Tim’s brow furrows, like he doesn’t understand the question.
“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?”
He breaks eye contact with her, one hand reaching up to rub at his jaw absently. Lucy holds her silence for one moment, two, inviting—or maybe hoping—that he’ll say more. It’s a very “Tim” response, deflecting from even the hint of a chink in his armor. But…he has tells. There’s something happening behind those walls, and while she’s not surprised that he won’t acknowledge it to her, she is…disappointed, maybe.
Not your place anymore, she admonishes herself. You are not his girlfriend.
“Well, hope you get to go home soon. Good night.”
“Yeah, have a good night Chen.”
Lucy can’t help feeling a little sad as she walks away.
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Tim is having a tough time, and Lucy can tell. When she tries to check on him, his old habits of protecting her from his baggage die hard. But Tim promised to be more honest with her, so he's going to try.
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- Part 2 of Safe Again
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Lucy's mouth opens and closes, her eyebrows raised and her eyes wide. “You want me to come with you…to therapy?”
Panic starts to build in Tim’s chest.
“Not like couples therapy or anything. Just for one session. I know it's a lot to ask, and you don't owe me anything. But I just thought, I mean I hoped that maybe—”
“Tim,” she interrupts, and he snaps his mouth shut. “...I'd be happy to.”
Tim feels his shoulders drop two inches from his ears and his breathing evens out. “Really? It's not…it's not weird? Or too much?”
Lucy gives a real, honest, Lucy-brand smile, the gentle kind with her lips closed, her head tilted just so, like she's amused at how silly he's being. And Tim feels his heart thud in his chest, because a sizable part of him thought he would never get to see that smile directed his way again.
“No,” she says. “It's not weird. Or at least not to me. When and where?”
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Tim is working to figure some things out, and there's no one he trusts more to give him perspective than Lucy. With the help of a qualified mental health professional, the two finally have an adult conversation about what went wrong and how they might start to make it right again.
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- Part 1 of Safe Again