as he's addressed, he doesn't move. there's a sharp, swift ripping noise. i'll spare poor vax's bed and say it's crystalline. he rips his top sheet with how hard he's gripping it between his fingers. vax on his elbow can see. ]
Vax.
[ quiet. calm. but the fury of which his knuckles tremble, gripping that sheet, is telling. ]
I just. I feel it. [ his voice is numb, oddly steady for the amount his shoulders tremble just a bit. ] I know others do. They see it. And if they don't, they will see it.
[ he looks like - panicked, for a second, eyes darting over percy's form. that panic turns to anger, a sense of futility; his hand twitches and then squeezes, tight. ]
We're going to get it out. [ somehow. vax's voice is low, steady with anger, with a sort of rising fury at this place and everything in it, and the mere idea - ] No one's going to fucking touch you, and you're not going to be anything like what happened to Malik.
They're going to be afraid now they they all know.
[ the squeeze is met with no resistance. percy just. keeps breathing. slowly. it hitches but once or twice as he looks him in the eye, sees the anger that, but his own are. distant. ]
I wouldn't blame them.
[ a breath, a swallow. ]
But it throws off the balance. What do we even do? When someone escapes us... do we wait for another situation like that to arise?
[ fiercely: ] They're going to be afraid something's going to happen to you like it happened to Malik.
[ not afraid of you. he's not letting percy spiral down that road.
for now he just stares at him, awkward, intense, angry, and trying to deal with four hundred different emotions at once. think, think, vax'ildan. think. ]
...'s the thing, I think. You didn't escape - we caught you. You just didn't die.
I think... [ frowns. ] I hope, that maybe whatever the fuck happened to him was a kind of balance. Kazunari was fucked up up until we found out on Friday, right? Maybe you just... maybe just have to make it. To then.
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as he's addressed, he doesn't move. there's a sharp, swift ripping noise. i'll spare poor vax's bed and say it's crystalline. he rips his top sheet with how hard he's gripping it between his fingers. vax on his elbow can see. ]
Vax.
[ quiet. calm. but the fury of which his knuckles tremble, gripping that sheet, is telling. ]
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vax is in action mode almost immediately, reaching out to him even as he grips the sheet - he reaches out to him, covers his hand. ]
What - what can I do. Talk to me.
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[ his hand is trembling. and then. it stills. ]
I'm alright.
[ when he swallows. it clicks. ]
I just. I feel it. [ his voice is numb, oddly steady for the amount his shoulders tremble just a bit. ] I know others do. They see it. And if they don't, they will see it.
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We're going to get it out. [ somehow. vax's voice is low, steady with anger, with a sort of rising fury at this place and everything in it, and the mere idea - ] No one's going to fucking touch you, and you're not going to be anything like what happened to Malik.
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They're going to be afraid now they they all know.
[ the squeeze is met with no resistance. percy just. keeps breathing. slowly. it hitches but once or twice as he looks him in the eye, sees the anger that, but his own are. distant. ]
I wouldn't blame them.
[ a breath, a swallow. ]
But it throws off the balance. What do we even do? When someone escapes us... do we wait for another situation like that to arise?
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[ not afraid of you. he's not letting percy spiral down that road.
for now he just stares at him, awkward, intense, angry, and trying to deal with four hundred different emotions at once. think, think, vax'ildan. think. ]
...'s the thing, I think. You didn't escape - we caught you. You just didn't die.
I think... [ frowns. ] I hope, that maybe whatever the fuck happened to him was a kind of balance. Kazunari was fucked up up until we found out on Friday, right? Maybe you just... maybe just have to make it. To then.