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you're gonna fall, but i'll catch you by 4okra
Fandoms: Nancy Drew (Video Games), Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene
20 Jun 2023
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Nancy wanders over to the side of the stairs to read aloud a sticky note left on the wall. The floorboards ache and groan, and that freezing cold panic sets in again, the urge to grab and protect. Just as the wood cracks, a loud splintering noise, he manages to grab Nancy around the waist and yank her backwards so that they fall into a heap on top of floorboards that are not rotten, that are in fact quite sturdy, that hurt like hell to land on with another person on top of you, but are a much preferable pain to the alternative of watching Nancy plummet to her untimely death.
“How many times are you going to save me from falling?” Nancy asks as she rolls off of him, the two of them both staring up at the ceiling. There’s mildew spots near a corner, and he wonders not for the first time why someone would buy this house.
“Too many,” he says first, then he considers the words for a moment and says, softer, “As many times as you need.”
Nancy doesn’t say anything, but her hand fits itself into his for the briefest of moments, squeezed tight.