chapter 8: uncuff me, a**hole (taylor)

Taylor was in so deep in this mixture of feelings and guilt for cheating on her that it was hard to tell the difference if he himself was not also drowning but he would be okay. "Thank you," he said. "Reflection off of you," he said as he nodded. Happy wife, happy life, unhappy wife, painful life he guessed.

"Baby you are not supposed to go chasing waterfalls," he said as he laughed. "I do want to see though." Taylor's curiousity was going to get him every time. "Can we use the cavern to get there?" Look at him wanting to explore depths of danger in a way. "Also are we crawling side by side or one of us in front of the other?"

Dr. Cami Q.- Carter

What had she been doing he was trying to remember and then the texts had started coming. The intricate planning he supposed. "Nope we're doing this together." He had been able to feel her. Her sadness, her joy, her wetness in the water of course. The happy, the sad, the ultra selfish that she tried to hide but it was not until the night he had told her he had to go away that she went from anger to peace about it.

He had only ever known being blue to bring her peace and now she did not have that so it only made sense to find something else blue. "I don't like magic Cami," he said because he felt he could be honest. "I find that for the most part magic is dangerous." But he had to understand, at least he kept telling himself. "I felt you sitting in water and you kept saying that you had yet to go see Madison or something like that so I wondered how are you so calm when you are still inside?"

Broken. Everything around them was broken but magic was possibly going to fix it. "Then today you said reflect." Her words were changing how she talked about their marriage. She had went from calling it a marriage to simply stating it was a reflection of whom they were on the inside, what they felt. "I'm not going to go blue because you are not blue anymore. I am going to be human plus just like you so whatever you are about to show me, we can feel it together."

"I don't want to be broken Cami. I know that we are so far from being fixed but I am tired, I am exhausted and if you are going to use magic to fix us then I am ready."

Dr. Cami Q.- Carter

He took a minute to blink and then he shook his head as he listened. "I do see it," he said. Like wow what in the total hell was he about to walk into. "I love being naked," he said honestly. "I mean if I could go naked all the time I would but not so good for the rest of the island," he said as he laughed.

"Hmm," he said. "I don't want to hold your hands." He did not say it mean he just said it honestly. "Tell me about sound in here," he said as he stepped to her as he took his shirt off. "What does the sound do in here, duckling?"

Dr. Cami Q.- Carter