12 - Video

[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara looks exhausted, but if anything, the light in her eyes is fiercer than ever. She was thrown some curve balls, sure, but nothing that could crush her.

She's becoming inured to trauma, she thinks. She's not sure how to feel about that.

Her voice is a bit dull when she speaks, thick with deep weariness and deeper aches, but it's steady.]

If you know me at all, please check in.

[The worst part, really, was what she couldn't see. She hadn't contacted anybody, save her hijack of Iris' call, and it ate at her, what the people she loved might be facing.

She needs to know they're all right.]

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[bodilesswarrior]

[Her smile is warm and wavering.]

Yeah.

[A hard swallow.]

I wasn't the city's target, though, Wade was. [Would she have overcome, if she had been?]

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[theonlyresponse]

I wasn't either. It doesn't mean some of the monsters weren't... familiar.

[He reaches out and squeezes her hand. They both know what kind of nightmares they've faced, he doesn't need or want to state very more about what he saw in Silent Hill.]

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[bodilesswarrior]

[That's all it takes, for the images to come rushing back, and her laughter is choked as she clings to his hand.]

My mother.

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[theonlyresponse]

[He shifts so he is next to her; they both need each other as lifelines right now.]

My son.