bursts into tears

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I'll get the Doctor his treats…

[ acts cute and obedient to weasel his way out of this. :pleading: ]

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[ he stops walking, and mutters in an hushed tone as the realization hits him, ]

I gave him a drug addiction...

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[ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

he also stops walking to immediately rub circles into thorns' back. he's fine, it's fine, do not have your quarterly life crisis in the middle of this dirt road. ]

You didn't! You didn't do anything! You were just looking out for him and making sure we'd get to keep custody! If he didn't learn quick, he would've been taken away from us.

[ the only court of law here is thorns himself ]

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[ he just nods his head and starts walking again.

he needs to contend with himself now. but he can't slow them down... what if elysium gets a drug addiction because they waited... ]

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You not saying anything is scaring me more…!!

[ acts as a counterweight to keep him from moving forward. ]

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I just need to think about this.

[ he tugs on his hand. ]

Let's keep going.

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Okay. Tell me what you're thinking.

[ he digs his heels into the ground. ]

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Weren't you just rushing us?

[ where is that energy from three minutes ago? ]

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Thorns…

[ He starts swaying their hands. No one said when they had to be at places by. They can just say they took a while finding their way around? Easy. ]

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[ he wants to go see their son but if they return to the barn right now they'd probably have to get to work...

thorns is realizing all of his failures. ]

We can sit down for a minute.

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[ me keeping capitalisation in the game to distinguish between my game tags and non-game tags and already falling apart three weeks in explodes

the moment they sit down, he's back to having his hand on thorns' back. ]

There's a first time for everything. It's okay. No one knows.

[ does this make it better or worse ]

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[ i first thought i was hallucinating when the game started and you used capital letters

but no one knows...? they know. docybara trusts them so much. ]

Am I cruel?

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[ my body double…

also. in tears. is this just thorns' equivalent of elysium's hair crisis. he keeps patting him gently… ]

You want the best for us and for us to be happy. How can someone like that be cruel?

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[ it is his hair crisis. he was so concerned about being efficient he forgot about morality in science...

he just sits quietly instead of responding. ]

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[ one of these concerns is more legitimate than the other

but elysium will also shake… not knowing what to do to knock thorns out of this…

…

he scoots over until they're thigh-to-thigh and leans his weight against him. he loves thorns? with or without his morality. this is the most seriously he's ever considered his foot-in-mouth syndrome. ]

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[ it's... fine...

he stays like that for a few minutes before moving to stand up. ]

Let's go. You needed to check their communications, right?

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[ hastily latches onto thorns' hand like he's a balloon that might fly away.

does this means he's fixed his morality with time travel ]

I did! Did you want to stay back with the Doctor?

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[ but they can't separate......

he looks so torn. ]

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[ well

if he's being honest with himself, he is at the point of his obsession where he doesn't exactly want to be apart from thorns either. so, he swings their arms to try and coax thorns towards the right decision… ]

I'll be extra fast. From what they were telling me earlier, their equipment doesn't seem super complex.

[ but is him being fast a point towards thorns not having to be alone with docybara for long or not having to be away from docybara for long

thorns' move… to cage end or not cage end that is the question ]

[oversea]

[ ... ]

You have two minutes.

[ the way this is probably only enough time to just walk down the street and nothing else. ]

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Two minutes isn't enough to get there even if I sprint?

[oversea]

Is that so..?

[ he is fully aware of this. ]

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What are the two minutes for…

[ he has a minute and a half left. ]

[oversea]

You need to be back here by then.

[ or else. ]

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[ okay.

he just kisses thorns' forehead then doesn't move. is he being tested…? ]