Cassandra never really got close to another human being after her parents died, being what she was, and the last thought in her mind was that becoming a Judge would change that, especially when she was partnered with Dredd, a Judge absolutely infamous for being standoffish and hard to read.
But somehow, months after that bloody day at Peach Trees where he saw something in her that even she wasn’t quite sure she could see, she’d gotten past all the barriers he erected to keep him from getting too close to anyone else, through all the layers of bullshit that gave him his less than pleasant reputation in the rest of the Justice Department.
She thinks about these things sometimes as they undress each other after a long shift, hands wandering and stroking in ways that still seem like part of a pleasant fever dream, and she can’t help but be thankfully for whatever it was that allowed her to have something good like this in a world she knows firsthand can be overwhelmingly dark even on the best of days.
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Date: 2016-03-26 04:55 am (UTC)But somehow, months after that bloody day at Peach Trees where he saw something in her that even she wasn’t quite sure she could see, she’d gotten past all the barriers he erected to keep him from getting too close to anyone else, through all the layers of bullshit that gave him his less than pleasant reputation in the rest of the Justice Department.
She thinks about these things sometimes as they undress each other after a long shift, hands wandering and stroking in ways that still seem like part of a pleasant fever dream, and she can’t help but be thankfully for whatever it was that allowed her to have something good like this in a world she knows firsthand can be overwhelmingly dark even on the best of days.