driftfleet | Bishop Mingle!

[ Lmao ... this is true ]

Still, I wouldn't blame you if you thought it was ... [ What is the word she wants, here? ] A little creepy.

Eh. [he shrugs]

Sounds useful to me. If I could do it, this whole tiptoeing thing would a lot easier.

[ ... Yeah ... ]

How is that going, by the way?

... [shrug, voice dropping]

Honey's not telling him. I think he's having enough trouble processing things.

[Aaaaand then a big sigh.]

I really don't like watching him go through this.

Yeah. He was pretty upset when I talked to him the other day.

Doing better than most, though.

... You think so?

[he still messes with hiro, but hiro notices when there's a distance between what tadashi is doing and what he's thinking sometimes. if there ever was in their past, back home, hiro had never been able to tell.]

I mean... I don't expect things to ever be... the same. Even if he got back to 100%, I'm different than I was before. But... I want him to be okay. I want to make the best of this chance.

[ She puts a reassuring hand on his shoulder ]

I'm sure that's what he wants, too. But it's a lot to process. Normally, something like this shouldn't be possible at all.

But, you know, he still has to be your older brother. It's probably tough for him to talk about it and still feel like he has that place, you know?

... Yeah.

[He looks down at his hands in his lap, lining his fingers up together.]

... It's probably kind of awkward to ask, but... he might feel best talking to someone outside of the people he knew back home. Can you keep an eye on him for us..?

["us", because he can't just admit this is him being selfish and needs to drag honey lemon in.]

[ She looks a little amused. Not because it's a funny or strange request, but ... because she was definitely already doing that. ]

Already one step ahead of you.

[he couldn't know for sure if that was the case, but now that he does, he kind of... nods, and takes a deep breath, sighing it out.]

Thank you...

[He might just. Lean on her a bit. He hasn't really talked about this with anybody since Tadashi got shuffled.]

[ Awww, baby ...

She'll wrap an arm around his shoulders and pull him close :) ]

He'll be alright. Just give him time.

[he's just gonna lean on her for a few here. he's been... sleeping kind of shittily. less shittily the night tadashi decided to DEADWEIGHT ON TOP OF HIM, but he's kind of been working himself half to death the last few days.]

I know...

I know, it's still hard, even if you know eventually things will straighten out.

[ She'll squeeze his shoulder gently ]

[He doesn't say anything to that, just kind of swallowing... hard... He might feel like crying. This has been very emotionally draining and he's held it together shockingly well, since he only really cried twice.]

[ Oh, no ... :( She glances over when he goes silent, to see what's going on, and ...

... Well, she'll shift to pull him into a hug. There you go, now you can cry without anyone watching. ]

[yeah, he thought was a little more okay, but... maybe not yet. he's trying to rush himself a little too hard here.

[he just needs a minute to let it out as quietly as possible.]

[ BABY. :(

She's happy to just sit there and wait while he gets it all out, though, rubbing his back soothingly ]

[it gets a little harder for a second near the end of him crying on her, but he doesn't stop immediately when he pulls back. he kind of furiously wipes it all away, shaking his head and trying to contain it. he's failing pretty hard, but he just keeps wiping it away.]

S-sorry, I just...

[he tries to smile, but his muscles are fighting him.]

I just don't really know why... sometimes.

Hey. It's okay. You've got a lot going on right now.

[ She gives him a reassuring smile ]

And believe me, bottling that stuff up? Is what's made the craziest people I've ever met go totally crazy.

[He tries to laugh a little and it comes out a shaky noise that's anything but.]

I'll t-try not to snap...

[He shakes his head.]

I just don't... get it. You've met him, you've seen him--he didn't...

[deserve it]

A-and... And Callaghan just... He said it was Tadashi's mistake.

[ She frowns, and continues rubbing his back. ]

What he said was what he told himself to justify what he did, and nothing more than that.

People ... will say just about anything to make themselves feel better about the crimes they've committed, if it means they don't have to take responsibility. This Callaghan -- [ She almost spits out the name, like it tastes bad in her mouth ] -- he's too selfish to see it any other way.

... I--...

[He swallows again, and his face is so... sad. But more than that, he looks scared.]

I tried to--

[He's never admitted this.]

He told me it was Tadashi's fault, a-and I lost control.... I-I took out Baymax's healthcare chip... The one that stopped him from hurting people.

[He has to take a deep, shaking breath, and he's still trying to keep up with rubbing the tears away.]

I was so angry... I almost... I tried to have him--

[He can't say it.]

[ Her frown turns to concern as he continues. What does she say? She would have done the same thing. She has done the same thing, and succeeded at it, as well as one can when your opponent is immortal. ]

But you didn't, did you?

[ It's not a real question. She knows, even if he didn't say it. ]

... I would have....

[The words come out so quiet, with this look of horror and confusion on his face.]

I-if Honey Lemon hadn't gotten the chip back in--if Baymax hadn't locked me out of his access port... I-I would have tried again...

Hiro ...

[ She doesn't look horrified at all. It's just a soft, sad look. Because this is just .... normal, for her ... But she knows enough about the world outside of Konoha and her world to know how terrifying that would be, and that all the shit they went through is kinda not okay for a teenager -- someone Hiro's age -- to have gone through. ]

It's not strange to feel that way. Being that angry is only a natural reaction to something so awful. Wanting that person to pay for the things they said or did ... anybody would feel that way.

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