[For a moment, Alex is entirely too shocked to reply. She'd seen him get angry before of course, had him be furious at her even if it was over the phone but she'd never seen him like this. So... out of control.
Alex just gets smaller in the bed. She draws her legs up to her chest and wraps her arms around them at first before she tucks her chin on top of them. Feeling very naked and very exposed and then she just jumped trembling. This was bad. This is bad on so many levels.
Without her glasses, Alex's doe eyes look even larger in her fear, and she feels more than a little bit at risk right now. Without thinking about it, she hums softly. There's something in her biology she knows that's supposed to keep people safe.
Alex wants to keep him safe too.
So she hums again, her eyes glassy with tears that slip from the corners and draw lines down her cheeks. The wetness gathers the makeup that the women had applied, sending her eyelashes in to clumped spiders and letting the drops turn silver and ink.
When he's done, when he apologizes, Alex is still trembling, and she's sweeping the tear stains away with angry movements of her fingers.
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Alex just gets smaller in the bed. She draws her legs up to her chest and wraps her arms around them at first before she tucks her chin on top of them. Feeling very naked and very exposed and then she just jumped trembling. This was bad. This is bad on so many levels.
Without her glasses, Alex's doe eyes look even larger in her fear, and she feels more than a little bit at risk right now. Without thinking about it, she hums softly. There's something in her biology she knows that's supposed to keep people safe.
Alex wants to keep him safe too.
So she hums again, her eyes glassy with tears that slip from the corners and draw lines down her cheeks. The wetness gathers the makeup that the women had applied, sending her eyelashes in to clumped spiders and letting the drops turn silver and ink.
When he's done, when he apologizes, Alex is still trembling, and she's sweeping the tear stains away with angry movements of her fingers.
Her voice is soft, small and dangerously hurt:]
Don't you ever do that to me again.
[Make her that frightened--that worried.]