She's careful then, still and silent with only the hammer of her heart and Steve's heaving back for company. There are few things that can work him up this way, and more than half of them lie with the man in the next room. She can't comfort him. She can't be more than witness to his worst pain, but Natalia finds she wants to try.
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Date: 2011-11-11 07:08 am (UTC)"Steve," she says. "It's not your fault."