#fear is the mind killer (all saul ft amara)

[ofemeralds]

“Well, i know you’re alive.” he says blinking at her. He did actually sleep. Clearly with him being in his cozy robe and fluffy slippers still. He runs his hands through messy hair before he sighs to make room for her to come in and takes a long sip of his coffee. He was going to need it considering the expression on her face already and it was not even 8:30am yet. He wasn’t even sure why he was up when today was his day off but he had already slept up to fifteen hours which was the most sleep he has had in the past three days combined. “I was about to make breakfast, if you are hungry, and yes i have, that was the first thing i did, sending the flowers. I mean,” he mutters shuffling awkwardly towards his kitchen.

When her cousin opened his door she could feel her face contort into the most sarcastic expression ever. “Please tell me you slept more than I did?” She asked, worried that her cousin was finally losing his mind and consuming too much coffee. “No one died and I’m here to make sure that you know I am alive.” She gave him an uncharacteristic hug and smiled. “Come in, let me in and have some of that delicious coffee you hoard.”

She waited to step through the newly opened door and left her shoes at the door step. “Have you sent flowers to the grieving family?”

[ofemeralds]

saul had slept in today after staring at the computers far too long and had actually been in his robe still. he was not really expecting anyone to come over this early in the morning. the coffee was fresh in his hand as he opened the door and sees amara standing there. he still had bed head hair from the sleep before and blinks a couple of times wondering if he was dreaming in this moment but he did remember actually waking up this morning. “yes?” he asks confused but making room for her to come in anyways. Was he in trouble or something? Why was she here standing at his doorstep? “no one died did they? why are you here?” he knew that was probably the wrong choice of words given the state of the town right about now but at last here he was saying those words to her and his brain was not yet functioning properly this morning. 

Of cousins and catch ups

As soon as she had finished her almost endlessly long shift at the hospital, she had begged off a few days to check in with family and wind down after all the chaos. She still had a few other contacts she wanted to look in to and friends to also check in on. But the first person she thought of to check on was her cousin, Saul.

It had been a long minute of contemplation to even ring the doorbell, let alone even step anywhere near the property. But she knew that what happened to the Kang's would raise alarm throughout their neighbourhoods and more likely than not she'd be called into a family meeting.

After a quick refresh at her home, she found herself nodding at the security guards who knew her well before avoiding the doorbell and aiming for knocking on the door. "Cousin," she said clear, employing her Mexican Spanish and speaking loud enough for him to hear her hopefully.

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