Swiftly he added up the evidence. Pippa calling him well before sunrise her time ... she must have just woken up from a nightmare. A nightmare about that piece of filth Larch and what he'd done to her. Not for the first time, Rory's gut churned with the certainty that dying at Tadhg's hands had been too easy a fate for the bastard.
And here they were with an ocean and more than half a continent separating them. He felt hollow at the thought of Pippa suffering alone. Somehow he knew that she'd said no more about her trauma to Alessandro and her friends in Venice than she'd told anyone here. Anyone who didn't already know, at least.
"I'd be there with you if I could, sweet." He'd rarely felt so helpless. "But I can talk and listen. I won't let you be alone."
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Date: 2009-05-06 02:54 am (UTC)And here they were with an ocean and more than half a continent separating them. He felt hollow at the thought of Pippa suffering alone. Somehow he knew that she'd said no more about her trauma to Alessandro and her friends in Venice than she'd told anyone here. Anyone who didn't already know, at least.
"I'd be there with you if I could, sweet." He'd rarely felt so helpless. "But I can talk and listen. I won't let you be alone."