Al doesn't bother looking up. He just grips Barma's shirt and tries to fight back all the fear, all the old pain he thought he'd numbed out and learned to simply accept.
It was one thing to have someone disappear. It was quite another to believe, even for a moment, that someone he loved would deliberately abandon him.
Gradually, he stops shaking, but he doesn't open his eyes.
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Date: 2012-03-14 07:39 am (UTC)It was one thing to have someone disappear. It was quite another to believe, even for a moment, that someone he loved would deliberately abandon him.
Gradually, he stops shaking, but he doesn't open his eyes.