"...I appreciate you wanting to stay. Really. But you can't fix this. There's nothing anybody can do."
Gentle tone #1827 is killing him a little, honestly. And it's not even that he doesn't want the comfort. It's that he doesn't want Jesus to feel obligated to him. Not with the dynamics in place... he'd had the same worry with Ephemera, even after several years together in one way or another. Being comfortable really leaning on this version of his partner was a fairly new development.
He's too tired and sad to explain it, at least without falling apart again.
"You don't owe me anything," he finally says quietly, sniffing a little as he stubbornly ignores the pressure behind his eyes.
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Gentle tone #1827 is killing him a little, honestly. And it's not even that he doesn't want the comfort. It's that he doesn't want Jesus to feel obligated to him. Not with the dynamics in place... he'd had the same worry with Ephemera, even after several years together in one way or another. Being comfortable really leaning on this version of his partner was a fairly new development.
He's too tired and sad to explain it, at least without falling apart again.
"You don't owe me anything," he finally says quietly, sniffing a little as he stubbornly ignores the pressure behind his eyes.