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[neighsaying]

INBOX (UN: OMNIDIRECTIONAL) text / audio / video / action This is Jean. Leave a message, and I'll reach back out when I'm available. [ Previously was thunderspear ] code credit

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[wintolive]

[Eren's not so sure about that. Jean sure seems to make things easier for him these days...Eren's grateful for that. Somewhere, he's aware that he can't exactly say the same for himself...]

I know...I'm not the me you remember...[Here we go again...]

You're not the you I remember either, but...

I...like it this way. [He loves him...] Maybe it's how it had to be.

[neighsaying]

We're still Eren and Jean. Even if we're different versions.

[ Maybe Eren doesn't want to think of himself as capable of being the man he is in the future, Jean suspects. In the end, though, they're still the same sort of people they've always been. ]

I like you this way. I like being able to feel... strong enough to protect you.

[wintolive]

[There are plenty of things Eren might say. "I don't need you to protect me," or "I can take care of myself." Some jab at how he'll always be stronger than Jean, or...something like that.

[Eren's not always good admitting the truth, but deep down he knows it; nothing here has made him feel safer than the arms he's wrapped in now. How many nights as he spent curled up on Jean's lap, just trying to make it through to the next moment?

[They tied those wristbands on each other for a reason...

[He puts his head back down, turning it so his ear is pressed up against Jean's heartbeat.]

Thanks...

[That's all. That's it. Thanks. For everything.

[He loves him. He loves him. He loves him.]

[neighsaying]

[ This time, Jean verbalizes what Eren doesn't. ]

I love you.

[ It means a lot of things - you don't need to thank me for this. An acknowledgement that Eren can take care of himself, but that Jean loves him and, therefore, wants to keep him safe.

He reaches a hand up to brush through Eren's hair, letting him lean into Jean's chest and listen to his heartbeat. He does love him, painfully so. Even if it bloodies him now or later to do so, he can't stop. ]

we can wrap soon I just wanted to get this in here

[wintolive]

["I love you." It rushes over him in a wave of warmth - nothing out of the usual, when Jean says those three words.

[Eren believes him.]

Yeah...you do. I know.

Me too...Jean...