CONTINUATION POST

[pchaaair]

[for when posts get really big!!]

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[appleofhiseye]

[hugging him tighter, no leaving]

Not that fast. Calm down.

[pchaaair]

. . . We chose Iris, because we were scared of Cardinal, and what they would do, because they kept saying that they would fuck anyone up, that even tried to protect themselves from them, and—Saffron was paired with us, in that game, and—... we worked it out with Iris, and apologized, and it's—...

[you're gonna hate me '-']

[appleofhiseye]

[tensing up, but otherwise just hugging him and keeping quiet ._.]

[pchaaair]

[when he feels that, he just. slumps. he knew she'd tense up, but even with what apple's told him before his mind is still running away from him. ._.]

Don't tell Ivy. We never told her, because she can't cope with those kinds of games.

[appleofhiseye]

[nods]

...She wasn't there?

[pchaaair]

No. She wasn't.

[can you let me go now 8(]

[appleofhiseye]

[no]

I...I'm sorry.

[pchaaair]

[he didn't expect that, so he's a little... startled...]

... What?

[appleofhiseye]

I--I don't really know what to say. I couldn't be there for you when you needed it, and there isn't anything I can say to help you with it now. I'm sorry for that.

[pchaaair]

You don't—have to apologize.

[appleofhiseye]

I know. But I don't have anything else to offer.

[pchaaair]

It's ... okay.

[appleofhiseye]

It's not.

[pchaaair]

I am saying that it is, though.

[appleofhiseye]

You're upset, so it's definitely not okay!

[pchaaair]

Well.

I will make it okay, then. I can figure out how to be okay.

[appleofhiseye]

It'll take a while, you know. After all of that you're not going to just be okay.

[pchaaair]

I can find a way to make it happen.

[appleofhiseye]

I can help.

[pchaaair]

You do not have to.

[appleofhiseye]

I'm going to.

[this is my "don't argue with me young man" look]

[pchaaair]

[... fine!!

he's not even in the mood for arguing, anyway. huff. he just sounds really resigned to it.]

Fine.

[appleofhiseye]

Good. It'll work out in the long run.

[pchaaair]

Maybe.

[appleofhiseye]

No, it certainly will.