prompt #21 Title:Inside Fandom: Original Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 123 Challenge/Prompt: #21- scar Summary: no one sees, no one but you
Her scars are on the inside, inside her head, her body, her mind. Gnarled and twisted, bitter black lumps that grow like knots.
No one sees, no one but you, she makes sure of that, polite smiles that distance and hide, the screams she hears, always, all the time, covered and squashed with long sleeves (even in summer) and far off eyes.
Her heart beats, blood moves, start, stop, start, and each breath, each step takes her closer to ceasing. Every day is one day less.
You hold her when she can't stop scratching, hitting, her eyes black and bruised, blunt bitten fingernails raw with shards of skin. When she sleeps, you rinse the red from your hands.