never finished that letter i was writing

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At first, she'd assumed that Edward had disappeared. It would fall in line with how everything happened back home, with how each individual Faye came to care for vanished one after the other, by choice or by circumstance. Edward wasn't necessarily a person Faye understood, but she'd been a constant, one of the few that remained in the space after all the years Faye spent frozen, and that in of itself made her valuable. Grounding. Family, in a strange way. So to have that taken yet again only threw into sharp relief that which Faye feared most, and the reason why she was so hesitant to settle with Dean, or to show any level of happiness over having a child. Because everything, on the island, was transient.

But a couple days afterwards, Faye became smarter about the way she searched for anything Edward left behind. Began asking other islanders whether or not they'd caught a glimpse of the olive-skinned redhead, usually with a dog in tow.

Rumors led her to the junkyard. It took a fair amount of waiting that afternoon to finally catch a glimpse of Edward in the open, but Faye could wait.

She didn't appreciate being left behind.

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Faye almost jumped when Edward suddenly shouted, any words on her tongue immediately silenced as she stared over at the girl. And she had to wonder. The question of belonging to a family had never quite been there for Faye, certainly never when she was Edward's age. She had a family that loved her, and even when she lost that family, it was in a way so whole and complete so as to leave her without even the faintest possibility of finding someone to attach herself to. In other words, that part of her life was painted in black and white.

There really wasn't an in-between.

Biting down on her lower lip, Faye's hand momentarily tightened in a fist by her side, which belied how much her fingers truly shook in that grasp. Because she couldn't answer those questions for Edward. It wasn't that she didn't want to, nor even that she wouldn't know how. Instead, she simply couldn't. Edward wouldn't let her; that much was clear.

"Okay."

And Faye didn't know what else to do. So she paused before turning, her whole body feeling slightly numb as she took a few steps away.