Song | Can You Feel My Heart? by Bring Me The Horizon.

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"Can you hear the silence?
Can you see the dark?
Can you fix the broken?
Can you feel my heart?

I'm scared to get close,
And I hate being alone.
I long for that feeling
To not feel at all.

The higher I get,
The lower I'll sink.
I can't drown my demons;
They know how to swim."

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You were twelve years old when Sokovia completely collapsed. You remember it like yesterday. The riots, the police, the crime rampant in the streets. Twelve year old you had lost your parents in the bombings three years earlier.

You'd dodged social services for three years, getting away from orphanages and foster homes. You were tough. You told this to yourself nearly every day as you searched for food and clothing and a warm, dry place to sleep at night.

Tonight was not such a night.

You turned down an old alleyway beside a restaurant, looking for anything that they might've thrown away. A slightly stale loaf of bread, old lettuce, maybe even overcooked meat if you were lucky.

"Hey, you!" the man who owns the restaurant shouted. "Get out of here! Haven't I run you off enough? I don't like rats going through my garbage!"

You whimpered as he took you harshly by the arm. "Get off me!" You spit in his face.

"Why you-!"

"-Get off her!" you heard a young girl's shout. You see her, all dark hair and warm clothing beside a young boy, probably her brother, who looks similar. They both have angry, determined looks about them.

"Get out of here," the man said, throwing you in their direction. "All of you!"

You turned to your two rescuers. "Thanks."

"I'm Pietro," the boy said with a smile. "This is Wanda. What's your name?"

"[Y/n]," you mumbled, shivering.

Pietro took off his winter coat and put it on you. "Here. Take this."

"No, this is yours-"

"-You need it more than I. You can stay with us. We're staying in an abandoned house. No one can find us there. There's running water and an overgrown garden."

Wanda hugged you tightly. "You're safe with us, [Y/n]."