EVIE
I want your midnights
Evie comes home and the first thing she does is shower every inch of her body with water as hot as she can draw it. It helps steam out the giant ball of twisted, agonizing frustration and hurt that presses at the inside of her skin like barbed wire, and ensures any chance of infection or void that might have gotten flung around during the fight can't find its way deeper. Evie doesn't normally take luxuriously long showers but today she lingers long enough that she has to turn the water hotter twice more before she feels ready to emerge. Micah sits on the bath mat and ignores the wetness of her legs as she emerges to instead help comfort her by pressing against her steaming skin the moment she steps out. He remains glued to her like that the entire walk to the bedroom, where she snags one of Deimos' shirts out of the hamper in a bid to settle the remaining jagged edges of her nerves with the scent of him and the way the fabric swallows her whole.
Still unable to calm, she leaves a note inside directing her husband to where she'll be when he returns home, and takes her old throwing knives out to the simple targets in their backyard to sink them over and over into the painted rings. Her body will complain tomorrow (until she magically silences it) but right now Evie wants to indulge in destruction as an outlet, no matter how unlike her it may be.
