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❛ you’re a fucking nightmare. kiss me. ❜ / dex @weaponid
it doesn’t sound like desire, it sounds like a dare. gloria stands there, breath tight in her chest, jaw working like she's chewing down a scream. maybe, once upon a time, she would've flinched. denied it. tried to scrub the blood off her hands and weigh the scales of morality, not anymore. it isn't something she can just outrun. it wouldn't matter how many lives she saved; she still took without mercy when the orders were given. never hesitated, never uttered the realization that she liked it. gloria laughs, and it's a caustic thing. like she's clinging to the last fragments of dignity before she inevitably begs him to dish out pain as personal penance. ❛ aw, am i keeping you up at night, dex? ❜
it’s been a long time since anyone’s looked at her like she’s something real. not a saviour or a soldier. something he doesn’t want to fix, maybe even something he wants. her hand finds his jaw, fingers rough from the violence of trying to hold onto softness. from too many nights spent stitching other people’s wounds while ignoring her own, she tilts his face down and meets his eyes with something broken and burning. her thumb brushes his cheek with the barest touch of reverence—or—warning. it's a slow melt into him, but not an ounce of hesitation. gifting him the taste of something sweet before her fingers curl roughly into his hair, and teeth graze his bottom lip. a fucking nightmare made flesh if he wanted it.
i said i'm fine, please just drop it. @huntedgod
she watches him, not with judgment but with an EERIE STILLNESS she can't help sometimes. it's made of too-long nights and losses that strangle the psyche too much to be untangled. her hands are steady. always have been, whether wrapping gauze or holding the weight of someone else’s truth, they never hesitate. but now, they rest on the table, fingers curled slightly inward like she’s bracing for something she can’t touch.
I'M FINE. she knows that one. said it herself with a tournoquit pulled taut between her teeth, said it over bodies under fluorescent lights and pools of blood in the sand. she said it until the words stopped meaning anything— so she doesn’t argue. ❛ yeah, alright. ❜ she then lets the silence fill the space like steam in a closed room. thick, warm, unavoidable as her instincts continue to press. slowly, she shifts her weight forward, elbows resting on the table as she presses up and off to her feet.
❛ can you at least let me look at your hand? ❜ her voice is quiet but insistent. ❛ last thing you want is a fight bite. ❜
I'm sorry you got pulled back into this.
DAREDEVIL — 1.11 "The Path of the Righteous"
EDITS// dr. gloria de lima ( mutuals my reblog )
❛ we're not going to fight her, she's the devil. and you don't dance with the devil cause you get burned. also in her case, because she has no rhythm and her hands are like little rat claws. ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @washsins ( this feels like a dean conversation )
❛ your fascination with me will be your death. ❜ Leon / @washsins
a warning? perhaps a favour spoken by toeing the line. gloria breathes it in, lets it settle in the space between them like smoke. heavy, impossible to ignore, and he’s close enough that she could touch him if she wanted to. it’s not the danger that draws her. she’s seen worse, survived worse. but there’s something about him, all sharp edges and old scars, some still bleeding under the surface. she recognizes the kind of violence he carries. it’s not posturing, it’s not a threat, it’s a language she's fluent in. gloria doesn’t know when she started needing him like this. beyond warmth and safety, but for the way his presence drags her back into her own body, sharp and aching and real.
she’s never been good at doing the right thing when her hands are already shaking with want. she could pretend enough, hold up a reflection of the goodness she tries to uphold with a heart-wrenching dedication. how she falls back into the consuming grief, haunted and so unfathomably broken. she couldn't be repaired. ❛ maybe i'll just die wanting you then. ❜ a smile that shouldn't be there, but one that echoes a sentiment she couldn't place. the gallows humour dancing across her lips. ❛ or you could save me the heartache and put me out of my misery now. ❜
a twitch she won't snap up in her maw. the way he says the word CAMOFLAUGE like he knows what she’s been trying to outrun it since the first time someone shoved a tourniquet in her hand to save a man already half-dead. like he can see the thing coiled behind her ribs and how it gnaws when she lets her guard drop. and she knew he could see it.
❛ well then i'm paying too much for mine. ❜ she's been dissected by people in far colder rooms than this: by doctors, by superiors, by the mirror.
her throat tightens. ❛ i'm not— ❜ hungry? she's a terrible liar. he’s not wrong, and that’s the worst part. she just hates how much she agrees, how he can unravel the tireless labour of moral acrobatics at the promise of FEEDING THE ROT.
❛ bleeding is easy, billy. ❜ she presses words and invades his space. she isn't a threat...she's always a threat; a labcoat won't change that, but she's offering resistance by tenderness. it lands as a bruise and traces the veins in his forearm. ❛ i want to know what they do when the wound closes. ❜
❛ but be honest again, querido. ❜ a sharp hum, a burning sort of melody, amusement becomes a strange sickness brought back from the gallows. ❛ is that the only time you trust me? when you make me bleed? ❜
there's a subtle twitch behind his lashes—barely there. you'd miss it unless you were hunting for it. and someone like gloria? she always seemed to be hunting for something.
❝ suppose a psychologist would call that behavior 'camouflage'—if they were ditching the clinical lingo and leaning into something we’d actually recognize. ❞
he tilts his head, as if parsing her—like she were a wound to be stitched or a bomb to be disarmed.
❝ uniforms aren't made to make saints. scrubs, fatigues—shit, even the suits, gloria. all they do is color the appetite. but the hunger? it’s still there. ❞ he studies gloria, eyes locked into hers—too long, too knowingly.
❝ but if i gotta be honest... i trust people more when they're bleeding. at least then, you know what color they really are. ❞
@medicbled