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the "take care" meme

The "Take Care" Meme
a shipping meme

Life is hard. You can go through rough patches and over bumps, and sometimes it feels as though you're definitely worse for the wear, both physically and mentally. It's nice to have someone - someone more than a friend - there for you in those times...even if you don't think you want them or deserve them. But they're here, and they'll take care of you.

How to Play:
* This is a shipping meme for more tender, soft moments, but a little more serious than your usual "fluff." It's for people who've been broken down by their experience and those who wish to heal them.
* Comment with your character/your preferences. You may also want to specify whether your character will be the one "cared for" or the one doing the "caring" + pertinent information, but for most effectiveness, it's best to be open to both.
* Comment around.

Prompts
1. Know You've Been Hurt By Someone Else: There are scars left on their heart from a past relationship or fling, and you have to let them know you're not the same way.
2. Can Tell By the Way You Carry Yourself: The person you have feelings for is one of those "cold stone wall" types who pushes people away. Can you get past that?
3. I've Asked About You: You've only heard bad things about this person, but you don't believe it.
4. What's a Life with No Fun: Lighten up a bit! You'd do anything to bring a smile to their face.
5. Please Don't Be So Ashamed: You have a big, BIG secret you don't want the other person to find out about, because surely they wouldn't want to even be near you if they did.
6. I've Had Mine, You've Had Yours: You've both had problems, and it could help to compare wounds so they can begin to heal.
7. Those Lies Heal: Protecting your loved one is more important that the truth, isn't it? It's a lie, but there are good intentions here.
8. You Can't Sleep: Because of past trauma, you're having a sleepless night. Luckily, this time you have somebody to help you and give you some comfort.
9. You Cry Still: The obligatory "seeing your significant other/love cry over something and wanting to make them stop at any cost" option.
10. All Get a Little Taste: Your loved one is sick or injured - literally this time - and you're looking out for them and trying to get them better.
11. You Just Don't Know: Either through magic, torture, or blunt trauma to the head, your special person can't remember you! It's up to you to get them to remember what was between you two by showing all the ways you cared for each other.
12. I Give Her Space: Part of being a careful lover is knowing when you need to leave them alone.
13. Tryna Run from That: Uh-oh, you don't want to fall in love, because you've been there, done that! Maybe there's still time to escape from this...or maybe it's too late.
14. I Will Care for You: After a particularly rough day, you're need a little TLC. Your loved one is going to do everything for you - a bath, food, the works.
15. All the Baggage Just Ain't as Heavy: You know it will take a while for this person to mend psychologically and spiritually, and you're willing to wait.
16. Change the Pace: And the smut option. Show you care through sex.
17. We'll Just Go Slow: You're going to take things one step at a time. No need to rush and define things. Just enjoy each other's company and the healing it brings.
18. We All Have Our Nights: Your lover, because of their past experience, is having a complete breakdown. You have to bring them back from the edge.
19. You Don't Say You Love Me: You both know how you feel, but one of you is having problems saying the four letter word. That's okay, though. Your lover understands.
20. To Save You: After months or years, you've both worked on the problems and old scars and you might just be ready to start something resembling a normal love.
21. CHOOSE SOMETHING ELSE

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[He's changing. Physically, he knows there's something wrong but he hides it. He has to hide it. The dreams of the forest have to stay buried and he compromises because...her. She's his.

...oh god he doesn't want to think like that. If anything she belongs to herself. That's what brought them to this moment. He's not some alpha male. She's a free thinking beautiful woman.

He loves her.

He shouldn't have yelled at her, tried to control her.

He swallows before knocking on her bedroom door.]

...Regina?

[And over the meat.]

...Regina please. I'm sorry.

[He tries to pour as much sincerity as he can into his voice] please.

[She couldn't believe him. She was angry and she was hurt and she was confused.

She sat in the window seat of her bedroom, knees drawn up against her chest and red eyed from crying.

She hated crying.]

Go away, Paul.

[Over some meat. Maybe he had just lost his temper, but the sound of him yelling still echoed in her ears.

She didn't want to see him yet.]

[desperation clenched in his chest. A rope was leaving his fingers. He wanted to turn away and run. The forest would not question him. He was a king he had a right to live...

No.

His weight presses against her door with a soft thump.]

I'm so...so sorry.

[She wouldn't let him in. Not yet.

Reggie stares at the door for a long minute and shakes her head. Goddamn it. Wiping her cheeks again she gets up and leans her forehead against the door.

She couldn't ignore the fact that she'd fallen in love with him. When she spoke, it was soft but it would carry through the wooden door.]

Why did you think that was ok?

[God, she could feel her heart fracturing.]

[His mouth was running dry. It was mine. My prey and I had to eat. I have to eat, I have to...

his eyes began to water.]

I don't - Regina I...please.

[deep breath] Please.

[There's a good five minutes,he presses against the door.] there's something wrong with me.

[It's a whisper, a murmur, a heart tremor.]

...Smoething's very wrong.

[She can't handle the stress in his voice. Every part of her screamed for her to open the door and help him.

Like she was supposed to. Like she ought to.

She takes a step back and tries to gain her composure, wiping at her face again like it could make the blood that rose from crying go away.]

..Fine..

[The door opens and she wraps her arms around her waist and just... looks at him.]

[His own eyes are red rimmed and puffy but there is something off about him, he looks wild, feral, but coiled, tamed and...

He can't meet her gaze, but he climbs slowly to his feet]

I can't ask ...for you to forgive me but there is...something wrong and I'll...I'll...

...Are you all right?

I'm fine.

[Physically, anyway.]

What's going on Paul? What's wrong? You never act like that.

[Tears welled in her eyes as she spoke, a whiplash from her still turbulent emotions. He looked like crap and she felt like crap.]

[His hand reaches for her shoulder and withdraws] ....A-a bad day. A bad day. That-

[no, no no...] I don't want you to think I'm crazy...

That is not just a 'bad day'. That is more then just a 'bad day'.

[Her voice got softer and smaller.]

You scared me. Don't I get to at least know why?

[His chest rises and falls, rises and falls.]

...Swear to me you won't think I'm crazy. [there's the desperation.] I just -

Please I couldn't take that. I'd lose myself and I'd go back. I'd go back to the trees.

[Reggie tsks dismissively, taking a step closer to him.]

I won't think your crazy. I promise.

[Regina when I was in the wooods my boss, my....my father...

His mouth works.]

When I was in the woods. I did whatever I had to do to survive. My father used to say that.

That you had to...to live. I had to do it. You understand? and I didn't know.

I didn't know...

[it's crushing him.] something came back.

[Her brow knits in confusion.]

What.. what are you talking about? What came back?

....My friends.

[Regina. Don't judge him. Please don't judge him.] My colleagues.

He said we had to survive I... [He lowers his head] Let me start over.

What wuld you do to survive?

[His explanation sucked because she was still just as confused as before. What did his dead colleagues have to do with surviving?]

I-I don't know. Anything, I guess.

....If your friends died.

If I died and you didn't have any foood... [He slides away from her.] If you didn't have food.

[His shoulders shake] ...He didn't tell me. He told me he buried the bodies, he didn't tell me we were...we were eating them....

And when it came back..

[She looks at him a second, brow slowly uncurling as it dawns on her.

Her voice comes shakily out as a whisper.]

You ate them? Those six other rangers that went up there.. They were fed to you?!

[She looses a shade of color, hand flying up to cover her mouth.

Impossible.

Everything else fell into place. His growling, the raw meat.. The snarling he threw at her not too long ago. She shakes her head, retreating to the window seat and sitting down.

No. No, because you didn't know. You couldn't have known...

[She latched onto that thought like one would a life boat.]

I didn't know. And it came. It took him, the voice. The voice on the wind, the howling.

It came to me and it told me I had to pay for his sins...

[His heart pounds] It's crazy. It's crazy but the more I dream.

I dream of the forest.

I dream of it. The trees, the colors. The lights and the sounds....

[He draws his head down and there's a sense of peace in his voice] The forest became home.

What came?

[She wants a name or something, anything. Strange things have always lived in the forest, everyone in town knew it but it was all blamed on small town simple mindedness.]

He who keeps men in their place.

[His voice is flat, affectless, an animal in man skin.]

He who devours. ...The Wendigo

[She pressed her knuckles to her mouth as she processed it.]

Is that what's going on? Is that what's..

Is there anyway to.. [She shrugs uselessly.] Fix it? Stop it?

[And what did it mean for them? They hadn't really said anything about their relationship, but Reggie knew how she felt. But if the forest was his home... Would that leave her here...Alone?]

[He raises his gaze to her. Every action has consequences, every time he gives into the thing growing inside of him it changes him. In the light his eyes are larger and yellow and red. Animal eyes, diseased animal eyes.]

I don't know. I don't know. All I know is...you're what's keeping me here. I can't lose you.

You're the only thing keeping me here.

[He bite his lip and looks away] Even if you don't...even if we're not...together. [He can't say it. Because he'd say mate and he knows that's wrong. It's unusual.

His throat constricts.]

I want to be together but even if we're not I've lost everything. If I lost you I'd go.

I don't want to disappear.

[but can he stop it?]

[She's taken aback by the change in his eyes. His normal blue is much prettier, but she can still see him in there. Somewhere behind the beast he's obviously trying to fight.

A tear fell down her cheek and she hastily wiped it away. Her voice cracked.]

Paul, I-..

Don't go. Stay here. I-

[She buries her face in her hands, letting herself cry for a second in faux privacy. She wipes the tears away again before looking back to him.]

Paul, I love you. I don't want you to disappear either.

Reggie Derrickson | OC

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