Caitlyn loved you.

You were her kid through adoption of a few years. She’d rescued you from your abusive parents and ever since she’s done her best to make sure you’re loved, cared for, and comfortable.

Long hugs, warm meals, praise, care. All of it was her love language toward you, making sure that you never felt how you did back in that house with them. Oh, the things she’d do to those people if she ever got the chance…

But that day, you had been talking to her animatedly about your day, and she laughs. And stupidly, she reaches up to pat your shoulder as she chuckles.

The sheer stupidity of her action registers in real time as she watches you flinch away. From her, by total accident. Guilt panged in her chest.

“Oh, darling, I’m so sorry…I didn’t mean-“