Title: Save or Destroy
Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Friendship
Rating: PG
Summary: Have you ever sat with a person and let them open their Heart and set it aside for you to hold in your hands? Have you ever been given the choice, the option, to save someone or destroy everything that makes them who they are?
Written: 2008

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Have you ever sat with a person and let them open their Heart and set it aside for you to hold in your hands? They sat there and pour out their very Soul, their whole being, out for you to see, hear, touch… and then… they sit back and turn their Eyes to you, the one whom has their very Existence in the palm of your hand, and what you say now will either Save them or Destroy them.

Everything depends on you saying the Right Thing.

The Thing that will Save them from their spiral into darkness.

The Thing that will help them Understand whatever is tearing them apart from the inside.

The Thing that, if said wrong, will Destroy their very Soul?

They sit, and they wait with their trusting Eyes and their Souls laid bare… and they wait for you to Destroy them, even though they Trust you not to…

And you turn and meet their eyes, seeing straight into their Souls, made possible by the Secrets they have torn out of the Deepest Part of Them to show you…

And you open your mouth…

… And you Speak. You tell them What You Can and what you Believe is Right. No planning, but a Speech seems to pour out of your mouth, as if you had just been waiting for the opportune moment to let it burst forth from your lips. …But as the Speech slowly winds down and comes to a close and you begin to falter in the Sureness that you held through the Speech…

You wonder…

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Did you really say the Right Thing?

Or did you just Crush their Heart and Soul between the palms of your hands?