Re: April/Eliot
"I took an oath," April said. "I can't refuse anyone care, it wouldn't be right."
The touch of his hand on her back was the one thing that made this feel slightly bearable. Sometimes she hated this place, hated knowing this was what there was and that it would stay that way for the foreseeable future. If not forever. Home was an impossibility - at least in the meaning it had had before. She could never return to the hospital back home, to her residency which was surely gone, or to her friends and family who wouldn't understand the changes in her. In truth nor did she really want to. It was a dream she'd held onto for a long time, but it wasn't who she was any longer. But today the farm felt suffocating.
"I wish we could leave," she said, not able to resist leaning against him now that he actually touched her, even if it wasn't the comforting bear hugs she'd gotten used to and now missed so much it hurt. "Just for a day or two, just get away from everyone, get a break. I'm sick of feeling like I'm constantly inadequate."