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Post by Adrien Baillon on May 9, 2010 21:09:59 GMT -5
He sobbed harder, gasping for air.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 9, 2010 22:40:22 GMT -5
"Adrien, sssh..."
He gathered him closer.
"If you had died, I would be alone now."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on May 9, 2010 22:45:51 GMT -5
He shuddered but wrapped around him.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 9, 2010 23:00:11 GMT -5
"I love you, Adrien. Does that matter at all?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on May 9, 2010 23:03:46 GMT -5
He nodded, rather limp. "Yes," he whispered faithfully.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 9, 2010 23:13:06 GMT -5
"There."
He stroked Adrien's hair back from his eyes and smiled.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on May 9, 2010 23:15:15 GMT -5
He took several deep breaths, each time just barely seeming to escape hysteria again, and then shut his eyes and nestled Adrian pathetically.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 9, 2010 23:27:33 GMT -5
"There. Ssssh. Do you need anything to drink?"
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Post by Adrien Baillon on May 9, 2010 23:35:15 GMT -5
"Don't go," he said in soft-voiced agony. "Just let me hold onto you -"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 9, 2010 23:40:44 GMT -5
"All right."
He continued stroking Adrien's hair and murmured, "You don't understand how much I need you here."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on May 9, 2010 23:42:21 GMT -5
He sat up a little further, apparently so he could hold Adrian to him only more tightly.
"Really?" he asked, sounding as though he were going to break down.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 9, 2010 23:47:00 GMT -5
"Really. I need you..."
The words sounded cheap and pathetic, even to him.
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Post by Adrien Baillon on May 9, 2010 23:47:58 GMT -5
He started to cry again, softly.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on May 9, 2010 23:54:05 GMT -5
"Do you see now? It doesn't matter how it happened. It matters that it did. And in any case..."
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Post by Adrien Baillon on May 9, 2010 23:56:30 GMT -5
Doesn't matter that I didn't die like I should have, just so that I could be with you? Doesn't matter that I didn't get what I deserved?
He couldn't get over the fact that someone innocent should have been in his position, that despite Adrian's loving him, it should have been someone else, because at this moment he couldn't really envision Adrian loving him, specifically, because he couldn't justify with Adrian's love the fact that he was here when so many had perished.
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