broken heart-strings (seer x embalmer, +more ships apparently)

thirty-three

It took a lot of effort to drag the totally out of it boy to the bedroom upstairs, though with the help of Naib and their shared determination to get him away from Joseph, they managed to eventually throw him into Eli's bed.

"What the fuck was that?! Why was he in there?!" Eli yelled, once the two had exited the room. Naib's eyes were wide, as he felt the guilt of everything all together push down on him with such a great force that it was too overwhelming to speak.

Aesop was now calmly sleeping on Eli's bed, totally fucked to hell. It was a scary sight for the other two. He had blood running down his nose and looked pretty fucked up when they found him in Joesph's room.

"I- I don't know, Eli-"

"What the fuck was he doing in there?" Eli whispered to himself, rubbing a hand thorough his messy hair.

He bit his bruised and beaten bottom lip, sighing loudly. His body was still always filled with these pains, from all the injuries he had held, and when stress like this strikes, we can feel it all again.

"This is shit."

Naib nodded, his eyes still wide as hell. He didn't know what to do, as he just stood there in the hallway. All you could hear at this time in the afternoon was their breathing and a few people downstairs. A lot of people would be in matches, outside practicing and getting ready for them, or spectating. Dinner isn't for awhile, so they had the place basically to themselves.

"God... do we confront Joseph? How did you, of all people, even know he was in there?"

Naib bit his lip. Here goes his secret. He could never lie to Eli, especially after all that had happened. It seemed like the small boy in the cloak had forgiven him to some extent, and there was no way he would just risk that.

"Joseph is my supplier. I heard he has a lot more than what I smoke, like drug type things. So uh I was going on there to get them, and he was sitting in the floor already."

Eli gritted his teeth. He knew hat Aesop got shit from Joseph, but he didn't think that the boy would be stupid enough to go into his room alone.

"This is really fucked."

"It is."

Eli let out a groan, looking up at Naib, who was still shocked by it all.

Naib glanced at Eli, before looking straight down.

"Just take care of him, Eli. Please. I know you two have gone through a whole lot, but he does care about you."

"I highly doubt he cares anymore. God... I'm so fucking done with being alive."

Naib didn't know what else to say, so he just chuckled quietly and began walking to his room.

Eli waved a short goodbye, before quietly entering the pitch black room. He was facing the door, slowly closing. The door clicked-

"Thank you."

Eli froze up, almost screaming. He quickly span around, looking at the bed. Aesop was sitting up, watching him. His eyes were bloodshot but he looked like the daze was gone.

"I'm so sorry.."

Before either of the males could do anything, sobs were pouring out of Aesop, as he threw his head in his hands. It was obvious now. He wasn't fucked up at all.

Eli ran over, wrapping the crying boy up in his arms. They both sat there for awhile, Eli comforting the boy the best he could while he cried. Some tears even came up in his own eyes from it, but he held his cool.

"What's wrong...?"

"I'm so sorry, Eli! I just needed the relief of something, but this shit keeps happening! I'm so sorry! I can't find any relief to the pain of this-"

"Me."

The word escaped the brunettes lips before he could stop it. They penetrated the thick air like a knife, cutting through the other's rambling. It made Aesop hold onto the other more.

"What?"

"Me. I'm your relief. I'm what can help you when you're hurt. You don't need the hallucinations to feel okay. I just... I wanna make you feel better than they ever could."

Aesop sobbed harder, his arms wrapped around the standing boy's torso tightly. He couldn't help it anymore. He just cried.

Usually... it was the other way around...

"Of course... god. Do you know how long I've wanted to just know you wanted that? Do you know how long I've wanted that?!"

Eli shook his head gently, caressing the boy who was crying on him.

"I do not... but I could imagine."

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Hey guys. This is just a short chapter cause I'm actually on my phone and don't have my laptop and shit. It's basically just to assure you I'm not dead yet. y e t

Anyways, thank you so much for reading! I appreciate you all and really hope you liked it! If you did, feel free to comment what you thought! Alright, thank you, my lovelies!

Peace out~

-Mags++