[He drops the comm device and brings his knees up to his chest, resting his face on his knees as he looks down at it. And damn, does he look miserable and frightened, like a young child.]
If he disappears... Right now, he's here. He's here, and everything's okay. If he leaves, if he dies, nothing will be okay again. Nothing was okay before. Right now, I don't have to be him. Right now, he can show me how things are to be done.
[Without Amery, he was lost. Well and truly lost. He was just very good at hiding that.]
Right now, everything is okay. I don't want him to disappear.
[But, if you want, you can meet him. He tries to say this with the look. He's just scared, trying desperately to find a way to keep his older brother in the world of the living, when really, he belonged in the world of the dead. Amery was back, which meant that something was going to have to go terribly wrong. Balfour just hoped it wasn't Reid, Amery, or Caleb caught in the crossfire.
He drops his tone to a whisper.]
People don't come back to life without someone paying a price.
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[He drops the comm device and brings his knees up to his chest, resting his face on his knees as he looks down at it. And damn, does he look miserable and frightened, like a young child.]
If he disappears... Right now, he's here. He's here, and everything's okay. If he leaves, if he dies, nothing will be okay again. Nothing was okay before. Right now, I don't have to be him. Right now, he can show me how things are to be done.
[Without Amery, he was lost. Well and truly lost. He was just very good at hiding that.]
Right now, everything is okay. I don't want him to disappear.
[But, if you want, you can meet him. He tries to say this with the look. He's just scared, trying desperately to find a way to keep his older brother in the world of the living, when really, he belonged in the world of the dead. Amery was back, which meant that something was going to have to go terribly wrong. Balfour just hoped it wasn't Reid, Amery, or Caleb caught in the crossfire.
He drops his tone to a whisper.]
People don't come back to life without someone paying a price.