# dw abt matching the length god damn

[apocalypsxridden]

i knew you’d come back to me 

TAYLOR SWIFT - ‘folklore’ / [open]

Five had only been back for a few hours, at most. Despite the pressing knowledge of what was to come he’d been silently touring the mansion in what was a self-indulgent, if mournful, nostalgia trip. The calm before the storm, if you will. The bittersweet flooding back of childhood memories shaded in regret and unavoidable what-ifs. He’s missed his family, there is no other way around it. He loves them and he is glad to finally be able to see them again. How could he not? In between the harder moments of survival, or missions where his mind was solely occupied by his target, it is all he could think about. He was certain he’d bored Delores to death by reciting the same fleeting memories of them. But a happy ending just wasn’t written out for him. Nothing he had done, gambled or sacrificed to get back here would matter if he could not figure out what was about to happen. He would lose everything a second time, and with that, himself. The painfully familiar voice pulled him out of this macabre train of thought. His demeanor softening uncharacteristically as he laid his eyes upon the woman (allbeit, not person) who had raised him and his siblings. This for the first time in 45 years.                                                                    “ Mom. “

There was an almost disturbing softness to his voice, one even unbefitting of when he had actually been 13. In a moment of self realization, he quickly corrects his demeanor. The more familiar frown returning to his face.

“ How long were you standing there? “ There’s more he wants to say, but knows he doesn’t have the time to deal with right now. Once this is all over and everyone is safe, he can be vulnerable, not now. Not with everything at stake. Even if he could be, she would not respond as she should anyway, it’s hard to keep in mind sometimes. But she is still not a person.