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pain is like cold water, your brain just get's used to it. by serendipitous_pseudonym
Fandoms: All Creatures Great and Small (TV 2020)
14 Jul 2025
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He was ranting about some farmer he’d been out to see, he was going on and on about how the farmer had been incompetent and wasted his time. He’d then reached past Audrey to get the whiskey, but she didn’t see what he was doing, he moved so quickly, and for a moment she was suddenly back in the marriage she’d run away from.
She flinched. And everything stopped.
Siegfried stood still, his hands dropping to his side, his words failing him for a moment.
She looked at him, realising what she’d done.
‘Mrs Hall, I wasn’t going to…’ he couldn’t finish his sentence, his eyes meeting hers, as though he was putting it all together in his head. And she couldn't bear it.
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A look into Audrey's life before Skeldale, her marriage, leaving it and then coming to Skeldale and meeting Siegfried and the others, inspired by the Noah Kahan song 'pain is cold water'