Blunt force trauma-ing Rodolphus's junk since 1980 (curseunbroken) wrote in lockdown,
"So much can change in an instant," Gideon said. "An instant was all it took for a curse to go wrong and kill the woman I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. An instant for a Death Eater to get off just the right curse, and then nothing's the same again, and people keep expecting you to go back to the way you were. I can't even say their names, can't write them down. They're always going to be there."
He hesitated for a moment, then reached out to take her hand, squeezing it lightly.
"I keep saying talking doesn't help, but... but knowing someone else understands, the way nobody else can... at least we're not alone. It's horrible that we both got hurt, and God knows I wish you didn't understand, but we both know what we're going through. I'm not going to get angry or upset if you talk about it. I want to get the one who hurt you, but I want to get them all. Talking about it with me isn't going to hurt me the way it hurts other people."