She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

236 Eminem’s Song

comforting.

Not that Scar wants to admit it, but this jerk has a really nice voice. Instead of the cleanness Alice's cute clear child's voice brings the lullaby, his hoarse voice gives it a more secure feeling. Magically, the manly power embedded in such a soft song somehow makes it more Maybe that's what the power a lullaby should have - the safety provided by parents.

"Hey, how are you feeling, little one?" Damian taps Scar's chin with a hooked finger ever so gently, and his voice echoes with something deeply hidden in Scar's memory, as if there was once a little boy whose voice shares only the tiniest bit feature of Damian's voice but the exact same tone when he looked down on her just like this and called her "little one".

The episode is over, but Scar's eyes remain wide open like a scared animal as too many memories and questions squeeze into her head trying to escape. The first one successfully barging out is-

"Who told you to use this song on me!"

Alice? Lilith? They both know about this, but at the same time, Scar doubts that any one of them would have had the chance to mention this to Damian when he is the last man on earth that Lilith would talk to. The last time Scar knew, Damian only tried to talk to Alice, and that was through hardship risking being arrested for kidnapping in a public park.

Who else knows? Silco.

told Damian? No. Silco knew Damian only as a famous face on the news. Besides, they didn't exactly feel

Silco pulled together for Scar, but they all signed a strict confidentiality agreement on anything

Damian know how to help her?! To take the right method without even a second's

your next sentence wisely, Vanderbilt! How did you know how to help me?" Scar warns, glaring at Damian as all sorts of dark thoughts pass through her mind. Has he gotten through her medical

both his hands, explaining with a scared look at Scar's sudden change of tone, "When I saw you on the ground, I just assumed it was because it was exactly how my friend's episodes looked!" "Yeah, sure, it's a panic attack, but that's not what I was asking! Why

I

"your breath was pausing

rolls her eyes as Damian's answer burns out her

you one more chance, Damian Vanderbilt, stop beating around the bush and answer me the real

that moment. It was Eminem's song. Mom loved it." Scar blinks as his answer crushes her anger into pieces. She wasn't expecting such an oddly normal answer. But at the same time, it makes perfect sense. Emma used to sing it.

it because Lilith

and the lyrics of the song is a lot

heard that

original lyrics until she changed them into this version. She thought