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🔮mollymauk tealeaf ([personal profile] headmt) wrote2021-06-06 07:39 pm
katzepaw: (hot pepper)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-21 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. It went away for Lucretia and Kon, it will for you. I don't want to . . . to make you more worried about this.

[But all I have in this world is that all of you care for me, and you won't. I will not even be able to look after you, because I will not mean anything to you.]
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[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-22 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't want to.

[I know you want to do this. Your motives are good, and it makes sense,]

. . . We don't need to talk about this anymore.
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[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-23 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a little tired - some other night, maybe.

[Though he sort of ridiculously assumes Molly is talking about sex right now.]
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[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-23 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. He looks a little stricken. You aren't terrible. I am the terrible one. He just takes his hand and squeezes it.]

Yes, okay.
katzepaw: (quartz block)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-23 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
That is a relief.

[He's quiet for a moment, will let himself be led to the private room, but he will just quietly say - ]

It isn't - I know. I don't see you that way.

[Sometimes I forget that all of you don't see me a certain way.]
katzepaw: (smoke wisp)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-23 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
No. You have no reputation with me for thoughtlessness.

[And you are the one in danger and you are comforting me while I treat you as though I think you are completely callous.

He will go sit on the bed.]
katzepaw: (metal lockbox)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-23 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah. He will take his boots off and then crawl over to him, curl up next to him.]
katzepaw: (dust)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-23 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[He sighs out, a little comforted despite himself by the closeness.]

. . . I don't think you are a liar. Not about things that matter. If I've acted like I don't believe something, it's. . . that is me. It isn't to do with you.
katzepaw: (corn extract)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-23 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. He lets that wash over him, pressing his eyes against his shoulder like he's trying to shut everything else out. He doesn't want to push this away. Not his thoughts, that he didn't want to say anyway. It's hard to avoid, just a little, I am not worth all of this.

And it doesn't exactly make him feel worth it, that they both decided to forget him at once. He doesn't feel like he is allowed to be so selfish, to ask them not to, to send someone else. He doesn't really know how to ask for things for himself. He assumes it will be fine, he's overreacting, he will be able to handle this. He is and isn't wrong.]


It's alright.