Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.

'First Date'


Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Cass - May 21, 2012 12:36:51 pm PDT #13709 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I'd like a fort. They sound comforting.

Sounds like a perfect time to flop on the floor and have a good cry for about five to ten minutes before you have to go be a grown-up again.

I keep doing that thing where you lean against a wall but end up sliding down to the floor while crying. Four weeks ago, I thought that was fictional and just looked like how you'd expect sad to look in a movie. Apparently not.

I do have a friend coming over in an hour and a half. And I've only got to take the unused syringes to donate at the vet left to do. I don't think I left anything that I want back at the boarding facility. Apart from Kittenish. I want her back more than anything. At least in a few days, I will have what is left of her with me.


Burrell - May 21, 2012 12:45:27 pm PDT #13710 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh Cass, I'm glad you have a friend coming over soon. Let your friend take care of you, you don't have to be a grown up if you don't want to.


§ ita § - May 21, 2012 12:46:30 pm PDT #13711 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Four weeks ago, I thought that was fictional and just looked like how you'd expect sad to look in a movie

As long as you're not doing that thing where you close the door, and both you and him touch it soulfully as if you can "feel* through it, but it's all too poignant for words. Or eye contact.

Which is a roundabout way of deflecting from--I wish it were fiction, dammit, for everyone.


ChiKat - May 21, 2012 1:36:40 pm PDT #13712 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Oh, Cass. I am so sorry. I really do understand. I don't cry for Mickey every day anymore (so I know I'm getting more used to him being gone...I'll never be "over it"), but I still cry regularly. Cried for him on the way home from work.

Add the stress and worry about your dad? And it truly sucks. My dad's not well. He's been slowly declining for several years and I think he's slipping into the final stages. Because of his declining health, I have very complicated feelings about this.

To sum up, I'm sorry, love. I wish I could make things better for you.


Cass - May 21, 2012 1:49:43 pm PDT #13713 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

To sum up, I'm sorry, love. I wish I could make things better for you.

I wish you could too.

Dad has an ocology appt soon where we find out treatment options and then it's a question of his strength both mentally or physically.

Talking to him last night when he asked how my cat was doing was brutal. Because she's gone and either no one told him or he forgot. Probably no one told him. It hurts him to hear his little girl crying because she's lost too much.


Burrell - May 21, 2012 2:03:37 pm PDT #13714 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh Cass, what a conversation to have to have.

Worrying about your parents' health is such a hard space. It's such a reversal of the order of things, and I don't think there's any way to prepare for it. And it truly sucks having to be strong for them. And yet.

I'm sorry.


NoiseDesign - May 21, 2012 2:10:27 pm PDT #13715 of 30001
Our wings are not tired

Oh Cass I wish there was something I could do.


beekaytee - May 21, 2012 2:36:38 pm PDT #13716 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

Cass, much comfort to you. I'm so sorry for your loss and struggles.


JZ - May 21, 2012 2:43:53 pm PDT #13717 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I'm so sorry, Cass. I hate the thought of you sliding down the wall to cry without someone there to put their arms around you. Mine are reaching; they're just painfully too short to cross a state line.

Anything you can do to be kind and gentle to yourself, even if it's as small as cookies and milk or a shameless cry in a hot shower, anything at all, do it. I wish you were surrounded by Buffistas right now.


sj - May 21, 2012 2:46:53 pm PDT #13718 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Cass, what JZ said.