AU!Martha doesn't approve of her mun's Doctor feelings :C

[slewthetyrant]

Would you stop whinging about wanting to see him? I don't.

And I don't think he wants to see me, either.

Keep it to your other characters, I've got things to do. Dying worlds to escape, beasts to kiss, that sort of thing.

[ooc: AU details here.]

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[slewthetyrant]

Hey, what are friends for?

[FOURTH WALL, WHAT FOURTH WALL?]

What?

[force_ful]

[Grin.] Point.

[and sober! He appears not to have looked at the history. ...not that he'd get that much of it without getting briefed on DW, but w/e]

I can't say I know what you've been through. I'm not going to say I've experienced the same kind of thing. It's never the same thing.

But... I think I know something similar.

[By which he means he's got abandonment issues too. Hooray!]

[slewthetyrant]

[Abandonment issues for everyone!]

It hurts, doesn't it? More than it has any right to, at least in my case. There was a time when I thought it would never get better. I'm still not sure if it has, but...it's gotten easier to deal with, anyway.

[force_ful]

[Backstories Inc was just handing them out like Halloween candy, man. Look, look, they come in flavors!]

That's... pretty much how it goes. In my experience. There's the cliche about time healing all wounds. It doesn't, directly. Not with everything. But it can help.

And then if something pokes you right there [something about the gesture suggests he might have wished to poke her but thought better of it, and Luke touches his knuckle to between his own collarbones instead] sometimes it's fine, but sometimes it opens back up, and takes others with it.

[slewthetyrant]

[It was part of a great Black Friday deal on angst and trauma of all sorts. Too good a deal to pass up, obviously.]

Tell me about it. [Martha gives a hollow laugh, clearly thinking of her conversation just up the page there.] It's even worse when it's someone you l- cared for - one of your best friends - because then you worry about getting close to people, just in case they hurt you again. It's so hard to get past that, even when you really want to.

[force_ful]

[Apparently if you mix them all and add hot water, they make a great bubblebath.]

Especially if they... changed your life. Made it better. Well, most friends do that anyway, but - you know what I mean.

[slewthetyrant]

Oh, I know exactly what you mean. And I wish I didn't.

[force_ful]

Yeah.

[sigh.]

[well.]




[oh, fine, he'll offer.]

...You know what? One of my students has a child who just turned two. He's on Coruscant for that now, but he sent us a big batch of Corellian whiskey cakes. [He knows what it's called, but also that 'ryshcate' probably doesn't mean anything to her.] It's only going to stay good for so long. I think that supply run had the pods that go into hot chocolate, too. Ours is a little different from yours.

Want to come see?