jude "i am super chill all the time!!!!" murphy (sueasadsong) wrote in rooms,
Re: Gatsby: Clementine/Jude
"I'll check. We'll get you home and settled first." Jude was so alone, he didn't realize how alone he felt or was until it seemed like that could change. He and Clem were close in age, only a year apart, but this was not one of the times he felt like the baby brother. Instead he was the protector, and that role wasn't too bad. "You'll love the house. I think our father would like it, I've tried to suit his style a bit. Although I know he'll never be here." It was stupid, to wish something like that, he was a man grown himself, and their father couldn't whisk them away or save them every time they made a mistake now.
He helped her into the wheelchair and he didn't squeeze her hand back, because she was bruised and injured. His eyes were usually a dark green, and now most of the time they were gray, but as he looked at her they shifted colors to the original. "I love you, Clementine. I'm sorry ... I'm sorry I couldn't save you before this happened." Jude was stiff and proper in the British way, so emotional outpouring didn't look the same on him as it did on others. But it was there in the small ways, the ones only she and their siblings knew. "I got the powers, and I was on my way ...."
Jude shook it off, because he was a bloody horseman now, and there was no time for that ridiculousness. "We'll get you home, into that bed, and you're going to heal. You can live in your bathtub if you want, and I'll get you all your favorite foods." He stroked her hair and moved around to push the chair.