Hey. Wait. I'm supposed to be the one comforting you, here. We do things backwards. I spring the surprise onto you. You're the steady, stable one. And now? They take you upstairs, put needles into your brain and your eyes, and...you're comforting me when it's all over? I...don't know where to begin pointing out all the ways that's wrong.
"We're doing this wrong," he murmured quietly, pulling Phoenix closer. "But...that doesn't matter. I still wish I could have protected you, and kept you from going through that hell before it even started. I...I'm going through everything I could have changed, from going to your room for a minute first, to immediately going upstairs, to...dammit, I'm still doing this whole comforting thing completely wrong," he said, breaking into a laugh that was dangerously close to a sob.
"But...I do know that you're going to be okay," he said, moving one hand into his hair and stroking it lightly. "You've taken down people that seemed to us to be gods. And...you'll do it again. Because you're here. You're here, and that's what you do. I don't know how you do, but you do."
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"We're doing this wrong," he murmured quietly, pulling Phoenix closer. "But...that doesn't matter. I still wish I could have protected you, and kept you from going through that hell before it even started. I...I'm going through everything I could have changed, from going to your room for a minute first, to immediately going upstairs, to...dammit, I'm still doing this whole comforting thing completely wrong," he said, breaking into a laugh that was dangerously close to a sob.
"But...I do know that you're going to be okay," he said, moving one hand into his hair and stroking it lightly. "You've taken down people that seemed to us to be gods. And...you'll do it again. Because you're here. You're here, and that's what you do. I don't know how you do, but you do."