neighsaying: (about to make existential crisis tacos)
Jean "it's good soup" Kirstein ([personal profile] neighsaying) wrote 2024-02-16 01:49 pm (UTC)

You told me to show you when I wasn't doing okay.

[ She shouldn't apologize, is what he means. All of them have had nightmares that have startled one or both of them awake. Jean constantly keeps busy because it's the only thing that eases the feeling of creeping dread that winds its way up his spine if he's sedentary for too long.

He sleeps longer, since coming here, but still less than he should overall, waking early or intermittently. All of them lapse into moments of silence, prompted by strange reminders of their past, or potential futures.

Jean still wishes he could ease her aches through will alone. Instead, he shifts his other arm to squeeze her where he has it wrapped around her. ]


You're doing the same for me now, aren't you? It's okay to have bad days.

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