I know it's normal to say that after you throw up or something, but...
[Jonathan cuts himself off, shaking his head. Caleb's aware enough to apologize, he still knows where he is. He's not feverish. He's not fighting him. This is Caleb, he's skinny and redheaded and not the old man.
And he - Jonathan - is not maybetwelve and scared. He's not, he's too tall to be. He's eighteen and he's worried, not scared. They're on the floor, both of them, in a little gray box of a house, he knows where he is too. He tries to breathe steadily, tries to calm down, and manages it about as well as his voice double has.
He can't even really laugh at the cat's sense of comedic timing, the noise he makes is more of a cough.]
You okay for me to let go, or... I am really bad at this, but...
...d'you need a hug?
[That's what you do when someone panics that badly and then comes back, right, not just when it's your wife?]
cw: memories of dealing with a disoriented slowly-dying parent & a traumatized spouse
[Jonathan cuts himself off, shaking his head. Caleb's aware enough to apologize, he still knows where he is. He's not feverish. He's not fighting him. This is Caleb, he's skinny and redheaded and not the old man.
And he - Jonathan - is not maybetwelve and scared. He's not, he's too tall to be. He's eighteen and he's worried, not scared. They're on the floor, both of them, in a little gray box of a house, he knows where he is too. He tries to breathe steadily, tries to calm down, and manages it about as well as his voice double has.
He can't even really laugh at the cat's sense of comedic timing, the noise he makes is more of a cough.]
You okay for me to let go, or... I am really bad at this, but...
...d'you need a hug?
[That's what you do when someone panics that badly and then comes back, right, not just when it's your wife?]