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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-21 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, boss.

[ who is the captain here...

but thorns will just start stripping. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-21 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ elysium is still higher up than him at rhodes …

this sadly does not scandalise him as much as it should as they are two bros. but he will give thorns some privacy by laying down and just staring up at the ceiling.
]

Don't forget to brush your teeth, too.

[ is he captain or is he mother ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-21 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Shouldn't you do that...

[ he grumbles something and then walks out after he changed into his jammies... brb... ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ he will… but he needs to go shower first…


he tries to get up and nearly falls over from his much his foot hurts. he gets up again and just powers through it. he's fine. when thorns return to the room, it's to a missing elysium.
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ elysium!!!

okay. thorns will just sit at his desk and try to get some work done. this is a bit hard, considering everything that has happened before then, but he needs to occupy himself somehow as he waits. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ he will be back… half an hour later…

… he goes ahead and crawls under thorns' covers. thorns isn't allowed to see that his foot is now bandaged.
]

Aren't you sleeping?
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
I was waiting for you to come back.

[ he didn't want to turn off the light until elysium was inside, like an overly concerned parent.

but he will get up. ]


Everything good?
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Just tired. But that's because it's been a long day.

[ he yawns, but opens the covers for thorns to join in… hi. ]

Gossiping might have to wait for tomorrow.
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ explodes



no he just crawls into bed, leaving some space between them. they can't cuddle... they're bros... ignore that they cuddled before they dated back in purg. ]


That's fine. You did spend all day traveling.
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ this is not even the worst of it as elysium loops and arm around thorns to pull him in closer. ]

You're going to fall off the ledge like that.

[ don't be weird. this is not cuddling but that space is no longer there. this could mean anything. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ thorns is trying to desperately to remember how to be platonic. he is just going to start imagining fia in the room with them. ]

I have excellent balance.
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ NOT FIA you're killing me

elysium does not understand why thorns is suddenly being so stubborn about this but he now has a vested interest in making sure he doesn't fall off…
]

Even if you do, that didn't look very comfortable.

[ he tucks them both under the covers. ]

Isn't this better?

[ pats thorns' back. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ elysium is really treating him like a kindergartner here. thorns doesn't even know how to react to that.

... well, it does kill the embarrassment, so there's that. ]


Close your eyes.
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Uh huh…

[ starts to slur… ]

G'night. It's nice seeing you again. Always is.
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. See you in the morning.

[ ...

he will wait until it seems like elysium is asleep to just look at him gayly. bye. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ is it bye…

his arm never really leaves thorns' waist so he just ends up gayly holding onto him throughout the night. this is normal.
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[



he can't sleep like this. thorns dies a thousand deaths. goodnight. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ dying is just eternal rest!!!!!!!

elysium wakes up in the morning… is thorns still awake or is this one of those situations where he managed to fall asleep in the last hour?
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ he fell asleep... but it is truly just that he only managed to fairly recently. he has curled in more towards elysium. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ help

it's fine. knowing how hard rest is to come by for thorns, he only glances over at his friend and assumes he was more tired than he let on. gently, he brushes a few stray strands from his face and out of his mouth, then lets his own eyes fall shut again.

he probably won't drift back to sleep anytime soon, but there us something therapeutic about just lying there and listening to the steady sound of him breathing—as if things will genuinely be okay. he hopes so. it's lonely, having to be the only one to move on, but if he can fall in love once—he can fall in love again.



elysium ignores how comfort morphs into discomfort at record speed.
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ all elysium does is make up headcanons that are close to the truth but swerve into a ditch.

that's fine, thorns continues to snooze. if anything, he just ends up moving even closer to elysium, his body just instinctively seeking him out in bed. funny, how even time and distance doesn't break small habits that form. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ it can get so much worse

like how he's back to thinking about how incredibly lonely thorns must be to subconsciously seek out intimacy. he's about to tuck him closer when he stops midway, wondering… if he is enabling rebounding? could he be a rebound? he is also

a white-feathered liberi… and so many of his crewmates had mistaken him as this supposed lover. this line of thought causes him to freeze before he just grits his teeth and goes for it anyway. this is not time to think ill about his friend? nor is it the time to push him away!!!

elysium pulls him in so close his chin rests on his head. he ends up thinking about this so much he tired himself enough to fall asleep again. good god.
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2026-01-22 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ NOT THE FUCKING REBOUND CONSPIRACY THEORY

the next morning, thorns is kind of confused about what his position is until he remembers that elysium came to visit. that doesn't quite explain why they are platonically spooning, but like. once again they did technically do that before they started a relationship together back in purgatory. perhaps they are just meant to touch each other (non-romantically).

if he was good, he'd dislodge himself. instead he just stays there, breathing him in like a creep. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2026-01-22 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
( help )