Shards of glass littered the floor. She bent down and picked up a shard. The break was so clean you could’ve never guessed it belonged to a larger piece.

“Kara?” Someone said behind her. A concerned question that sounded so genuine she almost turned around. But no, she’s had enough.

“Please go,” she clenched her fingers around the shard in her hand and squeezed her eyes shut, fighting back tears.

“Kara, you can’t—“

“Just go,” she repeated, “please,” she added in a choked whisper, and she hated herself for it. Hands fell on her shoulders and turned her around.

“Look at me,” Lilien said gently.

She carefully pried Kara’s fingers from the shard of glass, and she let her, because she always did. The shard dropped to the ground with a clatter.

Lilien reached out and brushed a tear from her cheek. Kara hadn’t realized they started falling.

“I didn’t intent this to hurt you this badly,” said Lilien as she brushed the hair from Kara’s face.

Kara flinched back. It was like Lilien took the shard of glass and stabbed her through the chest with it.

“Of course you did,” Kara said, trying to pull away, “why else would you have done it.”

“Because I love you,” Lilien said indignant, “because you deserve better than this.”

“It’s gone. It was the only thing I had left and its—,” she couldn’t finished the sentence.

“Oh Kara,” Lilien’s leaf green eyes looked at her so softly. Another pain bloomed in her chest. This one too familiar.

“You wanted me to find this,” she said, “just like every other time. I can’t keep doing this.”

She looked down at Lilien’s hand resting on top of hers and she wanted to lean into her so badly. Lilien was jagged glass she couldn’t help but repeatedly hurting herself on, and she new that by nightfall, all of this will be brushed aside. They needed each other too much, however broken the pieces become.

“I never wanted to hurt you,” Lilien said again.

“You can just say it,” Kara said, “you can say that you enjoy causing me pain and we could stop lying to ourselves. You’ve caused me so much pain, yet the love I feel for you blinds me of it.”

And she did love Lilien. She loved her so much that the pain of it drowned that of any wounds.

“I just want to help you let go,” Lilien said.

Kara laughed, “let go? Let go of what? I have nothing left, but you will still somehow manage to take more from me.”

Kara gave in. She stopped fighting, and let herself fall into the comfort of Lilien’s embrace.