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the light at the end of the tunnel is another tunnel by animediac for orionauriga
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
07 Jan 2024
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The years-long process of ‘getting better’, as his doctor had put it, was not about completely healing, and instead about learning new habits and accepting that his body, his first home, would never be the same – that he would never live in it without fighting it in some way. The best he can hope for is to make it his own.
It’s difficult to love something that doesn’t love you back, but Kevin had spent a childhood living like that.
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The truth of adulthood: most of it is just learning how to live with things. Kevin's just lucky that at least two of those things are good kissers.
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chronic pain and kevin day
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It wasn’t always like this. But , Abby had tried to remind him, it won’t always be like this.
It’s hard to remember that some days — curled around his hand in the backseat of his car while Aaron frets beside him, the reminder of a place he had left something almost more painful than the staying. Biting back tears from a headache that feels like a drillbit in his head while Katelyn tucks herself against his back in dead silence, the curtains taped shut.
It’s easier to remember on others, though. The Olympics week, dragging himself single mindedly through games until he won gold; both the first year and the second year, too. Matt and Dan’s wedding, where Kevin had ended up sat next to Katelyn and Aaron who had decided then, of all times, to invite Kevin for a drink when they were all back in Boston. Taking Abby hiking through the Foothills for her fifty-fifth. The first day of Katelyn’s residency where she came home and immediately fell asleep on Kevin’s lap; trailing Aaron through a mall at eight am in between shifts while he looked for toys to keep stored under his desk in the paediatric area of the emergency department for Christmas season shifts. The two weeks in the offseason that they spent in Europe, where the sea was so buoyant from salt that Kevin experienced the first moment of no joint pain he’d had in his life. Loose and laughing on the bed they share while Katelyn fights with her own bra straps.
Chronic pain plays the long game. So does life.
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