And Edward, bereft of that life and all but the lasting purposeful attachment to it over being a monster, still tried to rack grayed and frayed human memories. Wisps of humanity. Even human adults struggled to remember the briefest of childhood interactions.
Was it him? Has it been? A decade before even.
But there was so little in the brackish lack.
"It isn't as though you harmed him. You made him laugh and fed him chocolates and talked to him." Things Carlisle might have done with any hospital bound child, or child of coworker -- and yet the depth of why was different.
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And Edward, bereft of that life and all but the lasting purposeful attachment to it over being a monster, still tried to rack grayed and frayed human memories. Wisps of humanity. Even human adults struggled to remember the briefest of childhood interactions.
Was it him? Has it been? A decade before even.
But there was so little in the brackish lack.
"It isn't as though you harmed him. You made him laugh and fed him chocolates and talked to him." Things Carlisle might have done with any hospital bound child, or child of coworker -- and yet the depth of why was different.