CLOSED | prompt eight | RUIN

[dondarrion]

prompt eight | R U I N dressing-room style. closed to rog.

 

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[suburbia]

[ He watches her (the way she forms the words, the way she chews at her cheek) but he keeps his hands to himself.

(A different sort of father might have reached out, might have taken her into his arms.) ]

I know. [ It's a moment before he smiles. (Privately, he's not a terribly demonstrative man, but he goes a little extra for the sake of his child. At the end of the day he is still her father and among the myriad of nearly imperceptible ways in which he demonstrates his love, that is one.) ]

An' I'd burn 'em all before I let 'em even touch you.