my skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

toserveandtoprotect:

“If you want to, I don’t see why not.”

A pause.

“Do you want to? Or do you just feel guilty about not wanting to?”

        “…Honestly? I don’t know. I said some
        awful things to him before the cops took
        him away. Mind you, it was completely
        justified, but still. He is my father.” And
        he is the only family she has.

                              “But I don’t know what I would
                              even say to him…”