[She may often be at the apartment, but she's generally holed up in her room. Vanya doesn't mind taking small advantage of the common area, and if it's really a problem, she can just make a bed for him on her floor.]
[ Klaus doesn't know how to respond to that. Because no, he's not okay. No, he hasn't been okay for a long, long time. And he wants to sink back down into the numbness of it all, to find someone who can take away his pain for just a little while again. Have him riding high no matter the cost.
He craves it. Hell, he chased it damn near into the grave more times than he cares to count. But all he can summon the strength to say is just- ]
lets just say you're clearly the sane one for not moving in
[ Because making a joke? Is easier than admitting he's fucked everything up. Again. ]
[Was that too mean? She's having so much trouble figuring that out, what is snapping back and what's just cruel. It's an unexpectedly fine line for her.]
[She has to bite her tongue, afraid that's too honest: there will never not be bitterness in her about their childhood, she's pretty sure of that. Easier to just dance around the subject.]
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[She may often be at the apartment, but she's generally holed up in her room. Vanya doesn't mind taking small advantage of the common area, and if it's really a problem, she can just make a bed for him on her floor.]
Are you okay?
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Because no, he's not okay. No, he hasn't been okay for a long, long time. And he wants to sink back down into the numbness of it all, to find someone who can take away his pain for just a little while again. Have him riding high no matter the cost.
He craves it. Hell, he chased it damn near into the grave more times than he cares to count. But all he can summon the strength to say is just- ]
lets just say you're clearly the sane one for not moving in
[ Because making a joke? Is easier than admitting he's fucked everything up. Again. ]
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[Was that too mean? She's having so much trouble figuring that out, what is snapping back and what's just cruel. It's an unexpectedly fine line for her.]
but I always figured you were a little insane
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also most stylish
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[She has to bite her tongue, afraid that's too honest: there will never not be bitterness in her about their childhood, she's pretty sure of that. Easier to just dance around the subject.]
allison didn't fight you for most stylish??
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you know, joking
like dad would ever allow something so whimsical