mykidisthebest | SPECIAL DISASTER OVERFLOW POST

[his brow furrows, confused at the insistence]

Vincent. I'm not putting you down until we get there. Healing comes first. We're almost there, look.

[the doors are in sight, anyway]

[consults his ability to run away vs the many emergency signals his body is sending up

fuuuuuuuuck

by the time he has finished processing this they are through the doors. Eugene can pick up that sustained internal swearword because Frost hasn’t switched gears to remembering he can turn off thoughtshare yet]

[those emotions are probably just tied to how hurt he is!! thinks nothing of it. there's just a stream of love and concern from Eugene, sorry that's probably not helping huh.

he does just fully plop Vincent completely clothed into the closest pool for heals]

There, better?

[fuck fuck fuck why is he like this is he insane how is disappearing MORE acceptable than—

feels the return transmission and switches his off, mortified]

Hey, don't call me names in your head. I did exactly what you wanted.

[switches off his own transmission when he realizes Frost did too, and carefully shucks off his shirt before climbing into the pool opposite of Frost]

You didn’t do it early enough.

[

beholds him half naked and feels some kind of way about it even in this state because he’s an awful man]

[he's covered in blood and burns, Mr. Frost!!]

Why did you want me to drop you in the hallway, you silly man? I know it hurts, but that's no reason to make yourself hurt more. Sit and let it heal.

[I repeat, he is a very bad man]

You shouldn’t do these things for people who won’t return them.

I don't do things like this because I expect something in return.

You’ll give too much of yourself away, that way.

[grumbles a little, without heat, and sinks down further into the water in the hopes that his wounds will heal faster]

No, I won't. Helping out is a given. Really, what's with you today? You sound like my brother.

Your brother has a point.

He's being unreasonable. Like you are. You can't go through life without caring about people.

Caring about people isn’t the same as caring about everyone who crosses your path forever.

Well, I don't do that either, now, do I? You're overreacting.

TEN YEARS.

[awkwardly long pause]

...That's different.

How?!

You care about me.

Try again.

[but Eugene knows him well enough to catch the very faint unhappy tells at the corners of his eyes and mouth as he says it]

[he feels some kind of way about still being able to tell these things about Vincent a decade later]

If...you've moved on...then just say so. We can end things cleanly. But that doesn't mean I'll suddenly stop caring. Or that you will.

You sound very confident about that.

I am. I had ten years to think about it.

[cannot entirely disguise a flinch]

Ten years where I wasn’t in your view.

You're still the same person. With just a little more self-sabotage than I remember.

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