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BuckTaylor Week Day 4

Title: Be My Strength

Prompt: “I’m not going anywhere.” + hurt/comfort

Buck turned over on the uncomfortable motel mattress and reached for his girlfriend, sounding a noise of vague discontent when he found the other side of the bed empty and cold.  He slowly blinked himself to full consciousness and rolled onto his back, staring up at the ceiling and wondering where she could have got to.  It was possible, of course, that Taylor had merely run out for coffee or breakfast, something for both of them to enjoy quickly before they had to head to the airport and catch their flight back to LA.  But Buck had a feeling that that wasn’t where she’d gone.

It was only when he sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed that he caught sight of the scrap bit of paper lying on the bedside table, the message scrawled on it short and simple:

Gone to visit Mum.

The short note was followed by the address of a cemetery, and Buck found himself a little surprised that it had been included.  When they’d first started seeing each, even before he’d followed her to her home-town for her father’s trial, he wouldn’t have expected her to include the address, or leave a note explaining where she was at all.  She was fiercely independent and there was an invitation in this note, though many might not have seen it.  She hadn’t woken him, asked him to come, for she was still learning to be vulnerable like that, but she’d left this note, offering, if he wanted, to join her.  The thought warmed his heart and had him reaching for clean clothes to pull on.

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