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"Because you won't put me down."

2016-01-10 09:09:23

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"A better phrasing: you don't /need/ to be using them right now."

2016-01-10 09:10:21

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"Yes I do."

2016-01-10 09:11:25

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"But I'm simply not letting you."

2016-01-10 09:11:43

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"Why?"

2016-01-10 09:12:33

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"Because this is easier for you." I walked through the garden, trying to spot him among the plants. .....ah, there he is. I approached him and set Ivory down only so I could cautiously reach out and wind him up. Immediately, he began shaking.

2016-01-10 09:14:42

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Eventually he did put her down, but only to wind up Madison. Alright, fine. She'll comprise there. Well, for now at least. There were more important things. She reached out, and placed a hand on his shoulder.

2016-01-10 09:18:12

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"....I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." he whimpered. "......please don't leave..." Oh, poor Madison....

2016-01-10 09:20:50

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"It's okay." She knelled down in front of him. "No one is leaving."

2016-01-10 09:22:49

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He thought we'd left him waiting for so long because we were angry with him. No, that's not..... I joined her on the ground in front of him. "You didn't do anything wrong, we just had to fall asleep and find each other first...I'm sorry it took so long."

2016-01-10 09:25:04

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"No one is upset with you."

2016-01-10 09:27:09

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".....I was a stubborn moron, I wouldn't just...sleep....you had to waste time on......." His eyes were sorrowful, regretful, hopeless and lonely.

I saw myself in them and it scared me.

I grabbed him and hugged him tightly, rocking back and forth a little. "...you're not a waste of time...she just wanted what was best for you, and cared enough to come make sure you got it. Of course you didn't want to sleep, who would in your position, but you're brave enough to suffer through it..."

2016-01-10 09:33:08

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"I know it's hard for you....but you can't just skip on sleep like that. You need it."

2016-01-10 09:34:45

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"You won't come here /every/ time, and if you do, and you're alone....just try writing a story or a poem in your head to keep your mind off it, maybe. You're eloquent, you'd be good at that...." He didn't respond to either of us.

2016-01-10 09:38:09

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"It's not forever, that's for certain."

2016-01-10 09:38:55

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Oh dear.... ".....but it /is/ forever, I fixed it, it's not going to change again, I won't die, I have to do this.....every night.....forever.......!" Just the thought of that depressed both of us. Tears trickled down his face. ....he can cry?

2016-01-10 09:42:46

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"Who knows, this place has changed once, maybe it can happen again. Ontop of that, you're not /here/ forever."

2016-01-10 09:43:37

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".....no....it won't.......I'll be alone here for half of forever......"

2016-01-10 09:45:40

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"You won't be alone."

2016-01-10 09:46:32

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"................I'll always be alone................."

2016-01-10 09:47:03

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"Are you alone now?"

2016-01-10 09:47:19

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I was still hugging him. Ivory still had her hand on his shoulder. Has he convinced himself this thoroughly that he's alone? .....ah.....I see.......at the hotel. When everyone told him that no one loved him..............that would hurt anyone. "That wasn't what we meant......just that.....no one knew you well enough to have that deep connection. And you cut yourself off, so that made it harder.........we didn't mean you'd.....never be loved....."

2016-01-10 09:50:16

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"Ontop of that, Kinsley is an asshole. Don't listen to him."

2016-01-10 09:51:02

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I blinked. "...what? But he's a nice boy."

2016-01-10 09:51:53

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"He harassed Madison when he was wood and wanted to drill a hole in him."

2016-01-10 09:53:13