[That request, Vastra doesn't expect. Maybe she should have, given she had just gotten through telling Eugene his heart was one of the biggest she'd ever seen. She doesn't have an answer for him, she's quiet as Eugene runs around her apartment trying to fix her.]
[She can't leave him. She can't leave him, or Jack, or Max, or Natasha, or Bucky, or Loki and Rogue, or any of them. But the events that had led her to this point still hurt so badly, and there was no one she felt she could turn to for help. Vastra functioned as Jack and Eugene's mother, she couldn't burden them with her invisible struggles. Loki and Rogue, Natasha and Bucky, they were hurting as well, and in no shape to prop her up. It wasn't in Loki's nature anyway. And Max? Max had been absolutely frantic that day he'd seen her with her 'family'.]
[Asking for help wasn't something Vastra did, anyway. She was fiercely independent, resourceful, the backbone of the Paternoster Gang. So even though she was an expert at pinpointing what someone else might need, she couldn't do it for herself.]
I am far from an abused child. I am about as far from that as one can get. [Vastra rolls onto her side, noticing Eugene putting the kettle on. That would help, yes, but it wouldn't fix the most immediate problem.]
...Eugene, there's some meat in the icebox. Unwrap it and bring it here, would you?
['Some' is an understatement. There is almost nothing but raw meat in the refrigerator. Oh there's some other, more normal things in there for when she has guests, but if Eugene had ever wondered what Vastra's usual diet is like there's no guessing now.]
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[She can't leave him. She can't leave him, or Jack, or Max, or Natasha, or Bucky, or Loki and Rogue, or any of them. But the events that had led her to this point still hurt so badly, and there was no one she felt she could turn to for help. Vastra functioned as Jack and Eugene's mother, she couldn't burden them with her invisible struggles. Loki and Rogue, Natasha and Bucky, they were hurting as well, and in no shape to prop her up. It wasn't in Loki's nature anyway. And Max? Max had been absolutely frantic that day he'd seen her with her 'family'.]
[Asking for help wasn't something Vastra did, anyway. She was fiercely independent, resourceful, the backbone of the Paternoster Gang. So even though she was an expert at pinpointing what someone else might need, she couldn't do it for herself.]
I am far from an abused child. I am about as far from that as one can get. [Vastra rolls onto her side, noticing Eugene putting the kettle on. That would help, yes, but it wouldn't fix the most immediate problem.]
...Eugene, there's some meat in the icebox. Unwrap it and bring it here, would you?
['Some' is an understatement. There is almost nothing but raw meat in the refrigerator. Oh there's some other, more normal things in there for when she has guests, but if Eugene had ever wondered what Vastra's usual diet is like there's no guessing now.]