Keep holding on. [snuggle fic for
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Jan. 16th, 2009 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sometimes, people just needed hugs. Baileigh was convinced that more than one villain in a book, or a movie, or a television series could’ve been completely turned around if someone had just offered them a genuine, heartfelt embrace. Just a damned hug. Wouldn’t have cost anyone a thing, really, and so much unpleasantness could’ve been avoided. Really.
Not that Adam was one of those cases. In fact, she was pretty sure his issues were a bit too far gone for simple hugging to cure them. But that really wasn’t the point at all. He was sitting in front of the fireplace, glaring down at his drink and the flickering flames as though both had done him some great personal wrong, and he looked…well, moody, sure, but more than that. He needed a hug. He probably needed a lot more than that, but a hug was a pretty good place to start.
So she sat down in his lap and gathered him up in a tight embrace, resting her cheek against the top of his head, silently indicating that she’d sit here as long as he needed her to. Since he couldn’t talk about whatever the hell it was that had put him in this mood, she didn’t know what else she could do but feed him, pour him a drink, give him a place to stay for a bit, and hug him. It was an oddly helpless feeling, which seemed to be happening a lot, lately. She didn’t care for it.
“It’ll be all right,” she promised him, not knowing if it was really true or not but fairly certain it didn’t really matter, either way.