[ He's warm and real-- here. Since the beginning, he's been here. It's a comfort, though at the moment, also a little frightening... it's an effort not to think about what it would be like if he left.
So instead she says, with a shaky laugh: ]
You better not leave. If you do I'll have to find a way out of here just so I can drag you back.
[He wants to promise that, but at the same time he knows he can't. It's impossible to know who's going to stay and who's going to leave. An empty promise isn't worth much and he can't do that to her. Not after everything she's been through.]
I'm not planning on going anywhere.
[And it's awful that it's the best he can say, but... it is the best he can say.]
I know. [ she hums the words, more sigh than statement. Vriska pulls back to look at him, really look at him, though it's hard to tell her once-again empty eyes are searching his face. She takes a moment to press her face into her own shoulder, trying to dry her tears. Then she'll reach up, touching the fringe of his hair, right where it changes color. ]
And I know I've kind of said this sort of thing to you before, but I just. Want you to know that you are really important to me, and I'm glad we met.
[ It seems worthy of being said, especially right now. ]
[He closes his eyes, allowing himself to be vulnerable and welcoming the touch.
This is probably something she doesn't want to regret not saying. Either one of them might disappear and he never really knows which is more likely.]
You're important to me too... You were the first person I met here I talked to about my family stuff. Our lives were different but... I feel like you understand me.
[ Something about the way he closes his eyes makes her chest twist something awful. She knew he trusted her -- he had to, after the things they'd talked about, divulged to each other. But this kind of vulnerability is...
For a moment she touches his face with her fingertips, and then just wraps her arms around his neck again. ]
You understand me. Maybe that's... [ abruptly she laughs against him, the sound too sudden and sincere to be sad. ] Maybe that's just what this whole friendship thing is about.
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So instead she says, with a shaky laugh: ]
You better not leave. If you do I'll have to find a way out of here just so I can drag you back.
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I'm not planning on going anywhere.
[And it's awful that it's the best he can say, but... it is the best he can say.]
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And I know I've kind of said this sort of thing to you before, but I just. Want you to know that you are really important to me, and I'm glad we met.
[ It seems worthy of being said, especially right now. ]
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This is probably something she doesn't want to regret not saying. Either one of them might disappear and he never really knows which is more likely.]
You're important to me too... You were the first person I met here I talked to about my family stuff. Our lives were different but... I feel like you understand me.
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For a moment she touches his face with her fingertips, and then just wraps her arms around his neck again. ]
You understand me. Maybe that's... [ abruptly she laughs against him, the sound too sudden and sincere to be sad. ] Maybe that's just what this whole friendship thing is about.
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Her laugh startles out out of him.]
I'm pretty sure that's how to works. Liking each other and getting each other- that's friendship.
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[ is that what friendship is. ]
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It's a lot better than needing to stop somebody from breaking all their limbs.
[He's just going to put a jab in at Izuku.]