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Maybe he needs this reminder that Max is not a child. Tristan stares with the discomfort of ill-timed enlightenment. It’s easy pretending Max is innocent, that Max is just a kid. The truth is they are more alike than they know: too grown up for their own good and survival hardened. Max is not much younger than Tristan himself, in many ways they were equal. Max possesses a young face and a kind heart and that muddles things, forgoes Tristan’s memory of the other boy’s ability to live in the harshness of this world. 
The primal mechanisms in Max that will him to move forward, to live, to do whatever it takes, are the same mechanisms in Tristan that had him plunging a knife through someone’s eye months prior. 
They are the same. He can see that now. 
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Protective sentence starters??

because visualizing muses in these situations generally equates to puppies guarding each other and its wonderful
  • “No, don’t do that it’s not safe.”
  • “You’re scared of that, aren’t you?”
  • “Don’t touch her/him!”
  • “It’s cute that you tried to protect me and all, but you’re like a foot shorter than me, you know?”
  • “I will always step in between you and something like that.”
  • “Why? Because I don’t want you to get hurt, that’s why!”
  • “Do you think just because my feet don’t touch the bottom of the pool that I need a floatie?”
  • “The stepping stool is unecessary.”
  • “I’m not apologizing for what I said to that asshole/jerk… He/she was saying terrible things about you.”
  • “If you say another word about her/him, you’ll regret it.” 
  • “I don’t want to put you in that type of environment.”
  • “Make sure to tell me if you get worried, or nervous, or claustrophobic, or-”
  • “You could have been hurt.”
  • “I indirected him/her on Twitter for your honor.”
  • “I think you should leave this type of thing to me.”
  • “I’m gonna protect you.”
  • “You can hold onto me if you’re scared, you know?”
  • “I’m not leaving you alone.  Not now, not ever.”
  • “Let’s all watch a different movie.  This one freaks her/him out.”
  • “I get where you’re coming from dude, but honestly shut the hell up and don’t talk about her/him that way.”
  • “She/He isn’t an object.”
  • “She/he told me what you did, and all I’m gonna do is tell you to stay away.”
  • “You don’t know anything about her/him!”
  • “What?  You think that was funny?  You just insulter her/him, and expect me to laugh?”
  • “I’m not gonna let you put up with that.”
  • “Really, if you told me to I’d go punch them for you.”
  • “Wait, let me walk you home.”
  • “I’ll drive you, please– please don’t go like this.”
  • “It’s dangerous.”
  • “I’m worried about you.”
  • “I meant it when I said I would protect you.”
  • “I’m not stepping aside until you back up.”
  • “It’s too cold for you to come out here without a jacket on.”
  • “I’ll go see what the noise was.”
  • “Stay on the phone with me.”
  • “Promise me you’ll be safe.”
  • “I don’t feel comfortable with you going there on your own.”
  • “He/She did what to you?”
  • “I won’t let you go through something like that again.”
  • “I’m not perfect, but I’m trying my hardest to do everything to keep you safe.”
  • “Stay behind me.”
  • “I promised your mom to make sure you didn’t do anything stupid tonight.”
  • “I love you.  Of course I’m gonna defend you like that.”
  • “No, he/she isn’t good enough to take you out.  Trust me, I know.” 
  • “Are you planning to stay glued to my side this whole evening?”
  • “I’ll be okay, because I know you’re back here ready to step in if I need you.”
  • “Thank you for always sticking with me.”
  • “I’m really worried about her/him, but I don’t think he/she wants me to call.”
  • “I don’t know what I would do if something happened to you.”
  • “Like, I don’t expect to ever have to take a bullet for you, but I would.”
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we’ve lived in this tiny ass town where everyone knows everyone because no one leaves and when we were young we would sit up at night on your roof and i’d listen to you talk about how you were actually going to do it one day and you did but you never knew i’ve had a crush on you ever since back then so when you send me postcards from all these different cities with bright lights it makes my heart hurt and here we are several years later and i’m finally starting to move on but oh wait you’re back and my heart’s beating like crazy well fuck au
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       She’s in a hurry, as she tends to be, when the nearby kid’s bag decides to betray him. She’s been there, too many times, usually with grocery bags, so even in her haste, she stops and swoops in to help.        “ Damn bags. Always givin’ out when you need them the most.   She reaches for the things he hasn’t yet fit into his grasp and starts to bundle them into a neat pile.  “ Ah yes, dastardly pens.   Reaching into her jacket pocket, she produces a hair band and loops it around the little group of utensils a couple times to hold them together.   There we go.   There’s a soft smile when she faces him, hoping it will offset the clear discomfort he feels.
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               Gaze darts upward to her before  HASTILY  moving back down and Max finds himself  wiping furtively  at tears before fixing a small  APPRECIATIVE  smile across lips. “That’s pretty useful.” He regards, pointing momentarily to the hairband with a nod, he’s busy  shuffling papers  into some half-assed semblance of a neat pile  ( not near as neat as he’d like and the yearn for  ORGANIZATION  in him is somewhere between offended  &  mortified )

               He’s lucky there’s  duct tape  in his bag but it’s no coincidence. In fact, with  little regard  for her statement he’s unrolling a strip, biting it off with his teeth and placing it to the bottom of his bag, repeats the process a few times over, then sticks more on the inside over the  neatly patched hole  before gathering his things.  NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL.  However, the  embarrassment  is lingering as a sickness in his stomach. Hand extends outward to her to take back his pens. “Thanks.”

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       “you built it..!” mateo sounds astonished— impressed— and he steps forward to kneel down next to the tool, running his fingertips gently over the smooth wood. perhaps he’d have had the time to build something like this if he hadn’t found himself so busy, and now that he’s seen it, he thinks they could really benefit from something like it. his eyes lift at max’s offer and a smile tugs at his lips. “would you mind? i can help you.”

               He doesn’t quite  FLINCH  away as the other moves forward but there’s a slight  STEP BACK  Max takes that puts a  narrow distance  between the two. He had trust to spare, but it still felt  tedious.  He’s cautious. The other seemed  harmless  enough, however. Max falls  quiet  a long moment in contemplation of how to  PROCEED.  “I live pretty close. Not far.” He says. “If you can help me  unload  once there, it’s all yours.”

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"Max?" Marlow reached out and touched his arm. It was the dead of night, and pitch black. "I was scared you weren't there anymore."

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               He feels  FROZEN  and for once in his life it isn’t the  cold  but the  touch  at his arm, a thick, hot feeling rising in his throat as if it’s the  first time  he’s ever been touched  ( really, for the first time in  years,  it is ).  Words want to form but don’t.  “I’m here.”  Indelicate. The words are clunky and lack the  EMOTION  he thinks they ought portray. He just  lies there  a while before fingers move with a little more tact to curl around hers. “Are you okay?

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LIKE FOR A  LYRIC / SONG BASED  STARTER;     i got like 1k songs on my itunes & im gonna shuffle that shit and pick lines out of the songs or based on the Vibe and use them as starters, will mostly be MODERN VERSE based but if you’re more interested in main, lmk. a link to the song used will also be included.
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