@ muserevival || 075.1. Muse Prompt

[aussielawyer]

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"Dark is the night
I can weather the storm
Never say die
I've been down this road before
I'll never quit
I'll never lay down, mm
See I promised myself that I'd never let me down."
• Win, Brian McKnight

Mark lost track of how long he had been sitting in the living room staring out the large windows at the view over the city. The rest of the apartment was quiet, but his mum was pottering around somewhere in the kitchen baking anything she could get her hands on and his son was asleep in his bedroom up the hall. Gen was out for a quick lunch date with her brother to touch base with him after everything that had gone down and his dad was spending the day with James and Campbell at the zoo. The tea Mark made himself awhile ago had long since gone cold, only half finished and forgotten when he caught himself in a web of thoughts trying to regroup after everything that had happened. He had gotten up three times in an hour to check on Justin, and his son was still out like a light in the same position on his stomach each time (prompting Mark to check he was still breathing the second and third times). Everything was just so starkly prominent right now that his emotions felt drawn in about twenty different directions.

The apartment buzzer went, and his mum called out softly that she would get it for him. He nodded, even if she couldn't see him through walls and went back to staring out the window, stewing over his thoughts. But they were soon interrupt again with a happy squeal of, "Daddy!" followed by little footsteps running up the hall and into the living room. He soon had an armful of a energetic blonde bundle and his face was being showered with sloppy kisses.

( He couldn't help but smile and kissed his five year old daughter on the lips... )

@ wayswithwords

[aussielawyer]

Your family makes you the man you are.

"When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on..."

[betterplacetoplay]

Who: Brendan Drake and Justin Campbell
What: You're not alone
Where: Broadway, New York City
When: Around lunchtime

During one of their many heart-to-hearts, Brendan had asked his uncle if he thought there was anyway he could help Justin. If he could, he wanted to offer it up. It was just the sort of guy Brendan was. Caden had admitted that Justin could sometimes be a hard kid to read, or to express what he needed to get back on his feet. He did promise to talk to Justin's parents and suggest that Justin might like to spend some time with Brendan sometime, considering he understood what it was like to deeply care for someone with bipolar. Of course, Brendan hadn't thought it would be any time soon, but he got a call from Justin's father that morning and asked if he would like to have an hour or two with him. The only thing was that Brendan was still working at one of the Broadway theatres shadowing one of the musical producers, and that particular morning, it was just him with some members of the band he had hit it off with.

And perhaps, that was a perfect opportunity anyway. Justin's dad had expressed an exhausted confession that he didn't know what would help Justin or hinder him at this point, and if being in the theatre where he was supposed to have made his Broadway début that following week, being in the place he had been hurt to begin with, was too much, he and Justin's stepmom would be in a cafe just down the block and to call ASAP so they could come and collect him. Brendan thought there was a high chance that the whole thing would be called off and he was just sitting at the piano on stage reading some of the sheet music when the doors at the back of the theatre opened and Justin appeared.

( From that distance, Brendan couldn't see how he was, but he walked down the middle aisle towards the stage. He wasn't approaching fast and he had his hands buried deep in the pockets of the hoodie he was wearing with a pair of grey track pants... )

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