#fun fact: janes nickname for emma is not about her height :o
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𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆. jane lifts her head to look at emma, wide eyed, and it’s all she can do before those three words take all jane’s senses hostage - causing every function of her body to stall like the failing engine of an old car. 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒂’𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔. in nostalgia’s embrace, jane can smell its perfume — fragrances of summer nights spent pretending to chase away the boogeymen from emma’s closet, traces of campfires and the marshmallows jane would enthusiastically show emma how to toast, hints of old children’s storybooks jane would read to emma in their father’s recliner.
but then reality quickly yanks jane from out the arms of nostalgia, and the cologne it wears — fragrances of antiseptic, traces of bleach and disinfectant with hints of saline is far less pleasant.
jane doesn’t respond at first, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚎. for a few tense moments, the only sounds are the beeping of the monitors and the distant chatter of nurses walking past the closed door of jane’s hospital room. the tears in her eyes are faster than the words on her tongue, and it saturates them with all the emotion jane has stored deep in her gut for years and years; ❝ oh, peanut. ❞ she says, tears welling ever-faster in her eyes as she uses emma’s childhood nickname, a nickname jane herself created, a nickname jane herself doesn’t even know the last time she had called emma by it.
tears stream endlessly down her cheeks, now saturating the collar of the hospital gown she wore. ❝ i love you too, peanut. so much. i — ❞ the sudden increase of the beeping on the monitor tattles on jane’s racing heart, ❝ i - i’m sorry, if i never made that clear to you before . . . if i didn’t do enough, didn’t say enough - with mom and dad. if i was a part of the reason you left and never came to visit. i’m your big sister, em, i’m supposed to be your anchor . . . . i’m sorry that i wasn’t enough of an anchor to keep you here, or to make you feel safe or understood. ❞
jane’s hand crosses the small distance between herself and the rickety chair where emma sits bedside. jane take one of emma’s hands in her own, the other cupping emma’s cheek. and for a moment, jane stares at her, stares at her baby sister ( for no matter how grown or independent emma gets, she’ll always be her baby sister ) 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚’𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙟𝙖𝙗 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙚𝙡𝙗𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩, 𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨; 𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴.
she also ignores its follow up retort of how @beaniestm could just be a mere hallucination caused by the myriad of pain meds they have her on.
❝ i’m sorry, peanut. for everything. but — but i’m still here, and you’re here, now, and . . . and maybe we can keep it that way? keep that here and now permanent? ❞ her fingers travel up to brush away a few fallen strands, tucking them back behind emma’s ear.
𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒋𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆’𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒚𝒂𝒓𝒅, 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒕.
jane pulls back then, only slightly, and attempts to lighten the tense and sterile atmosphere with a joke;
❝ if i’d known all it took to get you to come home was a little car crash, i’d have done it ages ago. ❞
jane winces, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 — 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙄.𝙑. 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚. the awkwardness is a bitter reminder why she became a therapist and not a comedian. ❝ shit, em i’m sorry, i didn’t mean it like that— ❞
#salesman vc: now picture this---a jane lives au 👀#jane surviving the crash but being in rough shape and tom calls emma to let her know#ESP since its the holidays#and that's what brings emma back to hatchetfield </3#if i had a nickel for every time i got soft over siblings we wrote i'd have TWO nickels#...which isnt a lot but its awesome that it happened twice asdfgjs#fun fact: janes nickname for emma is not about her height :o#she called her em at first - then m&m - and then started calling her peanut when she saw a commercial for peanuts m&ms <3#🎶 𝐝𝐲𝐧. 《 ʲᵃⁿᵉ ﹠ ᵉᵐᵐᵃ》 🪓・❥✐ ⁱ'ˡˡ ᶜᵃᵗᶜʰ ᵗʰᵉ ⁿᵉˣᵗ ᵒⁿᵉ ⁽ answered ⁾#hospital setting tw#car crash references tw
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