#Zoe lit the match and is watching that bridge burn which also feels like mourning a death in a way

[rhetoricalrogue]

Snippet Sunday

Taking advantage of @dwead-piwate-meggers’ open tag and a post about what would upset the detective the most to have been destroyed in an accident to give my gal Zoe some angst.

“It’s so stupid,” she spat, voice thick and cracking despite her best efforts. “It’s just a thing. I...I shouldn’t…”

Mason knelt beside her and looked at the fretboard she held in her hands, trying and failing to ignore the twisting pain in his chest as Zoe tipped her face up, as if gravity and sheer willpower alone would keep the tears he could see shimmering in her eyes from falling. Aside from some chips that could possibly be filled in, it didn’t look too terribly bad. The headstock and the actual body of the guitar, on the other hand…

Well, he was pretty certain that there was no salvaging what was left. Maybe the hardware like the tuners and the bridge, if she was lucky. Everything else was toast.

“It isn’t stupid if it meant something to you,” he told her, voice surprisingly gentle, even to his own ears. “Tell me about it?”

#snippet sunday #zoe dawson #Zoe’s having a Sad Girl Summer atm #my girl is NOT having a good time and is emotionally hanging on by a thread #Verda basically told her to stay away from his family (who are practically family to her) #and now Rebecca wants to be close now that it’s convenient for her #Zoe lit the match and is watching that bridge burn which also feels like mourning a death in a way #she’s still grieving over the death of her father figure who died months before UB came on the scene #Jim was Harry’s dad and the closest thing she had to a father figure in her life so she’s taking the sudden passing HARD #Jim was also Rook’s best friend so losing him was like losing a connection to her dad #losing her dad’s guitar is the last straw #and then there’s Mason and whatever’s going on between them #the ‘it’s just sex’ thing wouldn’t normally hurt as much as it did but with everything going on it feels like one more loss to her #she’ll try to work through it but #she’s t-minus two seconds from a howling crying jag and fuuuuuuck she hates being weak and vulnerable in front of people