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Post by DEXTER ASHER TALLIS on Jun 18, 2024 9:33:20 GMT

It felt like a lifetime had passed since Dex had been taken. Back at the Ministry office in Ecuador they hadn't wanted to tell him anything about what had happened since he had been taken or how long it had been, they claimed it was because they didn't want to upset him but deep down Dex had a feeling it was because they just didn't know how to break it to him. They had seen the carnage that the camp had become but no one would truly ever understand what he had gone through. Out of the group of twenty that he had gone away with, he was the sole survivor and he had no idea how long he had been held there for. Thankfully none of them had pressed him for details of what had happened, they had simply reported on the devastation they saw at the camp and confirmed that he hadn't done anything wrong. Dex wasn't sure that he could talk about what had happened to him during that time right now and truth be told he wasn't sure that he ever would be able to. It had been a few days since he had escaped and made it to the field office of the British Ministry in Ecuador and a few hours since he had arrived at St Mungo's but every time he closed his eyes he was back there living in that hell once more. They kept telling him that in time it would get easier but Dex wasn't so sure. Seeing all of that had broken something inside of him, something it might never be possible to fix, but Dex knew that he would at least find a way to deal with it the same way he had done after Cece died.

It was strange being back in the UK now, the man who helped him at the field office had run tests to make sure that he was who he said he was and not an imposter but the hospital insisted on running their own tests. Dex supposed it was something that the Ministry was making them do, after all if what he had overheard the Healers talking outside his room about was true then he had been legally declared dead some time ago. They thought he was asleep at the time so they hadn't made any attempt to keep their voices down and Dex had heard them say that they weren't sure how he had survived. Truth be told he still wasn't sure of that himself but somehow he had made it and now he was going to have to pick up the pieces of his life. He had been checked out by the Healers when he got to St Mungo's, the man who found him had said that they couldn't give him all the treatment he needed in Ecuador and from what the Healers had said they weren't sure if they were going to have to operate so it was a case of having to wait and see. He had seen the looks of horror on their faces when they had seen the extent of his injuries, some of them had healed a long time ago but the scars still remained and from what they had said, they weren't hopeful that they would be able to get rid of them for him. If he was honest Dex didn't really mind that too much as he saw them as a reminder that he had survived but he wasn't so sure that others would feel the same.

The first thing he had done when he arrived at the hospital was ask to see his family and the staff had promised that would be arranged once they had verified his identity. He had wanted to ask to see Kelsey as well but he had finally heard one of the nurses say he had been gone for years and even though Dex didn't know exactly how long it had been since the days had blended in together while he was imprisoned he knew that it wouldn't be fair to ask her to come see him, not like this. He had no idea whether she had found someone else and just the thought of it was enough to make his heart ache since Dex knew that his love for her was stronger than ever so his family was the much safer bet. Some of his superficial injuries had been healed but he still looked like he'd been trampled by an erumpent and he knew that he didn't want that to be the first impression Kelsey had of him after all this time. She didn't know that she was all he'd had to hold onto while he was in Ecuador, that it was his love for her that had kept him going, and if she had moved on then he knew that he would have to somehow find a way to finally let her go. That was a problem for another day, though. Right now Dex didn't even know how to begin processing the fact that he had been gone for years or that everyone had believed him to be dead, hearing it from strangers made it all seem so hollow somehow and the words sounded foreign to him. One thing was for sure, he needed to see his family but no one would tell him when he would be able to do that. He was on a secure ward on his own away from prying eyes and everyone who entered his room was only allowed to do so after swearing a vow that they wouldn't talk to anyone about the fact that he was alive other than those on a list of names approved by the Ministry. It had sounded crazy when he had heard a disgruntled nurse talking about how annoying it was to one of her colleagues at first but the more he thought about it the more he realised he had seen the tactic before. The Ministry would want to break the news in their own way when they were ready and presumably after they had spoken to the families of his fallen friends. It made sense and it was something that he was happy to go along with but it meant that he seemed to be spending a lot of time alone. There was a Ministry worker posted outside his room at all times but the man refused to say anything and the truth was that Dex wasn't much in the mood for talking anyway so instead all he could do was lay there staring at the photo of Kelsey which was the only thing in the world that he owned right now.

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Back To Life Jun 20, 2024 22:20:34 GMT

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Post by SATINE ALIA TALLIS on Jun 20, 2024 22:20:34 GMT

Your brother is alive. Those words from Reece replayed over and over again in her head. It was honestly a miracle. Or something close to it. She felt the shock go through her veins felt the joy and the horror that she’d grieved him, that she’d called him dead and he’d actually been out there, alive, probably fighting to get back to his family. She visited his grave often, talking to him there as she did CeCe when she visited her sister. Taken to sitting on the ground in front of the two headstones and just talking as if they were in a small circle. She’d struggled with losing Dexter, a pang hit her every time she opened her journal to write a letter to CeCe knowing that it’d been an 11-year-old Dexter who’d given her the idea and she debated addressing the letters to them both, or writing to them both separately, but the conversations she had in writing form with her sister weren’t something she’d talk about with her brother. She didn’t know what to talk to Dexter about so she’d let the idea pass and instead went to the gravestone to talk to him in person instead, of Quidditch news and the Ministry and work. All that time he wasn’t dead, she’d been talking to air.

Then the thought hit her that made her a terrible person, was CeCe alive too? Would her best friend return to her after all this time as well? Was she wandering around out there, perhaps lost with no memories? She knew it wasn’t logical, there’d been a body in CeCe’s coffin, and there’d been a funeral and a kiss goodbye. Perhaps it was normal for her to jump to that hope regardless of how irrational it was. She’d had to tell herself, out loud, sternly, that CeCe was dead. Telling herself didn’t stem the nightmares that followed, though. They all played out the same way, that she was CeCe, buried alive, wake in her coffin and pounding for someone to help her, calling for Satine to help her as she slowly ran out of oxygen. She woke for two days with a strangled cry, Reece waking up and pulling her in his arms, telling her it’d all be okay. She wanted to visit him in the hospital, but Reece had gently told her to wait a few days and get some rest as she’d barely slept. She’d talked to her mum and dad who had both seen him, calling her crying with relief that their baby boy was home, and was looking forward to her own reunion with her brother. She’d officially transferred to Reece’s office at this point so it wasn’t any difficulty getting the day off, and after the first good night of sleep in three days, she felt more rested than she had in days so after getting around and traveling to the hospital she was taken to the ward where her brother was. She needed this, to see him, to hug him, to see in person that he was in fact alive. Part of her was waiting for it to be someone’s cruel idea of a joke or even a case of mistaken identity whether innocent or for nefarious purposes, but she told herself that they had to be sure before telling the family, Reece would have wanted to know what they’d done before he’d gone and told Satine she was almost positive of it. She was sure that he’d told her himself because he knew how to break the news to her the best rather than some stiff Ministry worker who had no clue what that pain had felt like, or any understanding of how Satine might react.

She knew there was a Ministry worker posted at his room, and it made knowing where to go easy, but she was oddly nervous as she approached the guard at the door. So much so that he’d risen and approached her as she got close and asked who she was, and when she’d quietly uttered her name, staring at the door and not looking at him, recognition must have sunk in and he nodded, and kept his distance as she made her way to the door, stepping through it at last, “Hi…are you up for visitors?” She asked quietly. Dexter. Her brother. Alive. If she was dreaming she didn’t want to be woken up.

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Back To Life Jun 21, 2024 0:36:23 GMT

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Post by DEXTER ASHER TALLIS on Jun 21, 2024 0:36:23 GMT

Right now it was the waiting around that Dex hated most. He had been locked away for three years and he knew that he was never going to get that time back but in a way there were times when even that had been better than this. There had been some days when he had been left alone, pretty much forgotten about until his captors remembered and decided that they had better feed him, but he at least hadn’t had to worry about people whispering and gossiping about him like he was having to put up with now. He could see the way some of the hospital staff looked into his room and then quickly turned away when they realised that he had caught them staring and the whispers that followed made it clear that he was who they were talking about. He knew that it was to be expected to an extent, after all he had somehow managed to cheat death when none of his friends had been as lucky, but now he was left in limbo while he waited to be given the all clear. He knew that it would take time and he needed to be patient but after spending three years wondering from one day to the next whether that was the day he was going to die, the truth was that patience wasn’t really one of Dex’s virtues right now. He knew that it wouldn’t always be like this, or that was what the psychologist they had tried getting him to talk to had told him anyway, but for now this was what he had to deal with. Seeing his parents had helped, they had cried and hugged him and told him that everything was going to be better now and he knew that they were right but he also knew that it was going to take time for it all to sink in. He wasn’t the same person who went away on holiday with his friends anymore, there was no way he could be after everything that he had been through, and he needed to figure out who he was now just like they did but at least he was home and he kept on reminding himself that he was safe now so he would have plenty of time to figure all of that out.

Right now only family were allowed from what Dex had been told and even though Julian was like a brother to him, the hospital seemed to be pretty strict about that and he wasn’t sure that Julian had been cleared to be told that he was alive yet anyway. Truth be told Dex couldn’t wait to get out of there and regain control of his own life for the first time in years but he couldn’t do that just yet no matter how much he might want to. He was still weak, the adrenaline had gotten him through his escape and returning to the camp to show the guy from the field office where it was so he could see to it that the bodies of his friends all made it home safely but that had long since worn off and now Dex was feeling the effects of being locked away and starved for so long. He knew that it was going to take him time to get his strength back and his Healer was helping him with that but it was slow going and that’s what was so frustrating. He wasn’t allowed to do much it seemed and it was driving him crazy. In the end he had managed to convince one of the nurses to get him a pack of cards and he had asked for a copy of the latest issue of the Daily Prophet so he would at least have something to do since he wasn’t allowed to contact anyone or do pretty much anything else. They had agreed to the cards but had said they were under instructions not to provide him with any newspapers or access to the media which was strange in itself but Dex could only assume that they didn’t want him to see when the press release about his survival came out. He had heard whispers that something big had happened while he was gone but he hadn’t been able to get any answers about what it was and the fact that the staff were all remaining very hush hush about it and the Ministry worker posted outside his room wouldn’t tell him anything either was enough to make him want to know what was going on that much more.

For the time being that would have to wait though, Dex had ended up seeking comfort from the photo of Kelsey he’d kept with him just like he usually did and he was looking at that when the door to his room opened. At first he thought it was one of the nurses checking on him so he didn’t look up at first but then a voice spoke asking if he was up for visitors and his expression softened for the first time since seeing his parents’ faces. “Ti Ti,” he breathed, a smile automatically beginning to form on his face as he looked over at his older sister even as the childhood nickname he’d given her since he hadn’t been able to pronounce her name right at first slipped out of his mouth. This two oldest sisters had always been Cece and Ti Ti to him, the unstoppable duo, and he had still occasionally used the old nickname for Satine even after they lost Cee. “Since it’s you, of course I am,” he assured her, putting the photo away and giving his sister his full attention. “You have no idea how much I’ve missed you,” Dex admitted as he let out a shaky breath. Out of all his sisters he had always felt closer to Satine for some reason and he had hated learning that she’d thought he’d left her too. He wanted to hug her but right now getting out of bed wasn’t an option for him so he had to settle for reaching a hand out to her instead. “How are you doing, are you okay?” he asked, knowing that this couldn’t be easy for her and finding it easier to focus on his sister and what she was feeling right now as opposed to what he was.

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Post by SATINE ALIA TALLIS on Jul 4, 2024 14:12:04 GMT

Finding out your brother was alive, wasn’t something anyone could exactly prepare her for mentally or emotionally. She’d found it hard to believe Reece when he’d first told her, despite knowing that he’d never joke about something that had caused her so much pain when they’d declared him dead. Every emotion spiraled within her head and put her in a tailspin that ended with haunting nightmares and the guilt that instead of being so overwhelmed with joy that Dexter was alive she was selfishly wondering if CeCe might have been alive as well as if she wasn’t happy enough to have Dexter back. Rationally she knew that wasn’t the case, but she still felt awful for even the thought crossing her mind. Working through those emotions, and finally getting some sleep before she visited her brother had helped her feel that overwhelming joy that he was back. That he was alive. She was happy he was alive, not that she’d quite let that settle in yet even as she was stepping into the hospital, taking the elevator up to the wing that they’d put Dexter, and the closer she got the more anxious she felt. She wondered what hell he’d been through, what he’d look like now, if he’d even remember her. No one had told her his condition, and she hadn’t asked, too scared to.

Her hands shook a little as she approached the wing where they’d told her Dexter was and she clutched them together as she approached the guard and told them who she was and they slunk away, she assumed to give the siblings privacy for their reunion. She wished she’d asked Reece to come with her, or at least walk her this far, she always felt stronger with him by her side, and she knew already that Reece would like her brother. Or, she supposed, the brother she’d been told had died. She didn’t know this new version. Just the thought sent her anxiety skyrocketing that much further as she stepped in the room and saw her brother for the first time and tried to keep the shaking from her voice as she spoke. His first words almost sent her to her knees. Ti Ti. She hadn’t heard the nickname in years, Dex had been the only one who’d ever used it and the thought of anyone else saying it always made her queasy. It was two pangs of loss in one, CeCe and TiTi, Dex’s big sisters. She’d loved them both so much and until three days ago thought she’d lost them both. One of them came back to her and if she had any doubts to who he was, Ti Ti sealed it. She told herself she wasn’t going to cry, she wasn’t going to put this guilt on him for her feelings and pain so she blinked back the wetness she could feel welling up so nothing fell. “I’ve missed you too.” She told him, noting her voice had the same shakiness that she thought she heard in his as he asked her how she was doing when she should have been asking him that question. She moved closer before answering and trying to be gentle put her arms around her brother in a hug. “I’ve missed you so much baby brother.” She whispered with her arms still around him a tear falling before she wiped it away as she stood back up from the hug, “Leave it to you to go making sure I’m okay when you’re the one in the hospital bed. Some things never change. But to answer your question I’m good. Better today than I was last week that’s for sure.” Last week her brother was dead, this week he was alive. She’d gotten to hug someone she’d thought she’d never have the chance to again.

As she looked at him it was as if a cliche movie montage played in her head, seeing the litle boy come home from the hopsital, him sitting amongst the dozens of stuffed animals as a judge in her and CeCe’s dance recitals, him and CeCe playing together, him growing up and going to Hogwarts, him holding her despite being so young himself as they buried their sister, the day he handed her the journal that started the Letters To CeCe diary that she still kept to this day and how much it truly helped her recover from her struggle with the loss of her best friend. Hearing him tell their parents about the love of his life. Telling him to have a good vacation, see you in three weeks. She hadn’t seen him in three weeks, and she hadn’t been able to throw away that little memo on her physical calendar. “Collect gifts from the brother” she’s jokingly wrote it, having told him to bring her something cool home for her. It still stayed displayed now in her flat, only now it could be that funny memory it was supposed to be, not something wistful. “I know you probably don’t really care about this but…I’ve started dancing again.” She told him, a little shyly, knowing how vulnerable dancing was to her since she picked it up again. It wasn’t some grand secret, considering she helped teach toddlers it’d be impossible to keep it if that was her intent, but that was probably one of the biggest things in her life outside of her relationship with Reece and she wasn’t sure how much information she wanted to overload Dex with today, especially if it pushed him into that protective brother role where her significant other was concerned she doubted it’d be good for him to go all brotherly on her boyfriend with the hurt her and I’ll kill you spiel and sizing the other up, or however it was supposed to go.

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Back To Life Jul 13, 2024 0:07:28 GMT

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Post by DEXTER ASHER TALLIS on Jul 13, 2024 0:07:28 GMT

Dex had always liked to think that he was pretty resilient, he had done his best to stay strong for his family when CeCe died despite the fact that he was the youngest and he had only let himself break down when he was alone or when he was with his two best friends. No matter what life threw his way he had found a way through it and he honestly hadn’t wanted that to change. Somehow against all odds he had managed to survive being held captive for the last three years, starved, tortured and almost killed and he had made it back to the UK where he belonged. Ever since he made it to the field office in Ecuador he had felt like he was under a microscope, every test had been run on him to make sure that he was who he said he was and those tests had been repeated once he arrived in St Mungo’s. No one seemed to care that he was being treated like a lab rat, all they cared about was being able to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. His Healer seemed to refuse to give him a straight answer on anything and the nurses weren’t much better either. Dex knew that he needed to be patient, he had been starved and beaten for years and he knew that his body needed time to recover, as did his mind, but not being able to do anything apart from lie there day after day listening to the staff talking about how they thought that he’d been the one to kill his friends was starting to do his head in. Dex was doing his best to ignore them but he was starting to feel like a caged animal again and he knew that if he didn’t get out of there soon then it was going to end up doing him a lot more harm than good. He wasn’t allowed to read any papers or learn anything that was going on in the outside world which seemed crazy but there wasn’t anything that he could do to change it. He wasn’t allowed to contact anyone either so all he had to occupy his time right now was a pack of cards he had managed to talk one of the nurses into giving him and the photo of Kelsey that he refused to let anyone else touch. That photo alone had managed to get him through the last three years and he knew that he wasn’t going to let anyone take it away from him.

He had been visited by his parents and one of his sisters and it had been so good to see them but it had been difficult as well. Dex had been so focused on surviving and making it home that he hadn’t even thought about what might have happened in his absence. He knew that the world hadn’t stopped turning and everyone had gone on with their lives but it had never occurred to him that they would all think he was dead. He’d had time to think about it since he first overheard the hospital staff talking about it and he knew now that it made sense, he had only been shown in the first video that had been sent out he hadn’t been in any of the others. They’d had no way of knowing that he was still alive and he hated the pain that he had put everyone through. It had been bad enough seeing the tears in the eyes of his parents and sister. They had loved him all his life but there was one person who would have had it worse – Kelsey. Just the thought that she believed him dead was enough to make his heart ache, Dex had planned on asking her to marry him after he got back from the trip and he’d found a place for them to live. He’d wanted to build a life with her but that chance had been taken away from them and he wasn’t sure whether they could ever get that back. He had tried asking his parents about her but they’d only said that they’d lost touch after his funeral. The fact that they’d even had one of those had made his head spin at first, apparently they’d buried an empty casket next to his sister and there was a headstone there with his name on it. That part definitely didn’t feel real right now and he wasn’t sure that it ever would. He had no idea how he could make it right for any of them or how he was going to pick up the pieces of his life but he knew that he had to try.

Aside from Kelsey, there were a few other people he’d wanted to see that he hadn’t been able to yet but as he heard a familiar voice speaking to him, he knew that was about to change. He’d thought it was one of the nurses at first so he hadn’t paid any attention but he recognised the voice as his sister’s straightaway and Dex couldn’t deny that he was happy to see her. The childhood nickname he’d given her slipped from his mouth so easily and Dex didn’t regret it for a moment. That’s who she was to him, who she would always be, and he had come so close to never seeing her again. He couldn’t ignore the shake in Satine’s voice as she said she’d missed him too and as she moved closer, he ignored the pain he was feeling as she wrapped her arms around him in a hug and his arms wrapped around her in return. As she said she’d missed him again before calling him “baby brother”, Dex’s eyes stung with tears and a couple spilled over his lashes before he quickly wiped them away. “I wasn’t sure I’d ever get to see you again,” he breathed. So many times he had thought about making it home to the people he loved but as time went on that hope had started to dwindle. He knew that he would have given up completely if he hadn’t had a reminder of what he was holding on for and now he was so glad that he hadn’t given up. He’d had to fight to make it home but he’d managed it and now he had a difficult road ahead of him but at least he wasn’t alone. As Satine said leave it to him to make sure she was okay when he was the one in a hospital bed, a chuckle escaped Dex which caused him to wince as a wave of pain shot through him. “I’ve always worried about you, you know that. It’s never going to change,” he assured her gently before nodding as she said she was better today than she was last week. That could be said for both of them. “Sorry I broke my promise, I didn’t bring anything cool back for you. It’s just me,” he added, a small smile touching his lips at the memory. It was such a normal thing for her to ask, that he bring something cool back for her, but he had failed although he was pretty sure she wouldn’t mind too much considering. As Satine said that she’d started dancing again, Dex’s expression softened. “That’s incredible, Ti. Seriously,” he said gently, knowing how much it had always meant to her and how she hadn’t felt right dancing for years after CeCe died. “What made you decide to start up again?”

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Back To Life Nov 10, 2024 3:48:46 GMT

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Post by SATINE ALIA TALLIS on Nov 10, 2024 3:48:46 GMT

Dancing had always been an escape from reality for Satine, it’d been another language entirely for the best friends and sisters growing up and after losing Cecelia she’d never imagined dancing again. It had been brutal to lose her, had destroyed her in a way she wasn’t sure she’d ever compare anything else to, it was like she’d lost half of her soul when they put her sister in the ground and even all these years later things had a way of punching her in the gut now and then, and then she had to go learn how to live without her big sister and her baby brother. No, Dex, wasn’t a baby anymore, but he was her baby brother and part of her would always see him as such, as the little cheerleader amongst the teddies and dolls in the audience of the C&T dance show extraordinaire as they’d call it. The young kid who despite hurting so badly himself at the death of his sister went out of his way to comfort Satine when she was blinded and lost to the grief and find something that helped handle the pain of losing her best friend. Since his “death,” every entry to the letters to CeCe entry she placed felt a little bittersweet knowing that she was now missing him too. She spent a lot of time in the cemetery in that first year, trying to make sense of it all talking to him and CeCe hoping they were together at least and spending time together, maybe CeCe had found herself an angel man to fall in love with madly as she’d always done so easily in life. That was her hope until she learned that Dexter was not dead, he was not only alive but he’d been kept captive and likely tortured, something her mind didn’t quite enjoy spiraling thoughts into combining into the awful nightmares involving her sister and Dexter. She was glad for Reece, he had her back, and he knew her so well to know that she needed sleep before going to see her brother again and it made her love him that much more.

Working under him directly now made it a no-brainer to get the time off to handle this massive adjustment and given they were dating it wasn’t as if she didn’t know his schedule that she couldn’t do some work remotely, not that Reece had let her. She almost wished he was here, at least to walk her to the floor as she got closer and became worried what she would walk into that room to see. Her mind had conjured up so many awful things but they fell away at the actual sight of him and relief swept in instead. Relief and joy at him being alive, it was a little overwhelming for her so she could imagine it was that much more intense for Dexter after all he’d had several of these back-from-the-dead reunions at this point. “I didn’t think I’d get to see you either.” She thought when they buried that empty coffin she’d never see him again, that she’d never see him alive that all they could hope for one day was what was left of his remains to return to them to confirm what they knew. Never crossed her mind that they were wrong that he was alive and now that he was in front of her she wished like hell she’d held out hope for them to be wrong. It was just like him to be the one back from the dead and in a hospital bed and worried about her and asking how she was doing. Her answer was right, she was better today than she had been last week, last week she had lost two siblings today she got one back. “I think having you back is pretty cool. Promise kept.” She said her laugh watery as she wiped her eyes surprised he remembered that joking promise she’d told him so long ago, the little entry on her calendar never changing, the month never switching as if the time stopped, only it hadn’t it’d kept on turning and she’d been forced to learn how to live without her little brother.

She didn’t know what came over her to share her news of dancing, it slipped from her lips before she could stop it, a spontaneous confession and one that she knew he’d react well too. He knew what dancing had meant to her before, and why she’d stopped. Losing CeCe had changed her forever, but starting to dance again had made her feel closer to her sister. “My boyfriend, actually. He encouraged it. Even took me on a surprise date to the studio to observe a session. I cried afterward. It was a kid's session, and these two sisters reminded me so much of me and CeCe when we were kids and I lost it. Then the stress of everything got to be so much I just…danced. For CeCe for you for me, and it felt so good after all that. I co-teach a kids class twice a week and am considering taking my own classes once a week once I get off the rust during warm-ups with the kids.” She knew for Dexter it wasn’t news to jump up and down about but it was big news for her so she’d decided to share it. Wanting to give him happy news in the midst of everything going on with his life, and in the world in general. “They feeding you okay in here? I’m sure I could go out and sneak up some good stuff if they aren’t.” She asked jokingly though if he said he wanted something in particular she’d go right out and get it without hesitation she was a cool sister like that.

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Words: 974
Notes:Sibling love

credit to Laura of Adox