Closed: A Different Morning After; Reid

[daleysebastian]

There were so few ways this day could go worse. The day after the full moon tended to be almost as bad as the full moon itself. At least Sebastian got to stay human, which was the only plus. Not that be felt human at all. Unless pain made you human? That was a little too deep for his throbbing head and aching body

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[reidinggg]

Reid managed to relax at least the slightest bit more as Sebastian somehow closed just that much more space between them, a thin sort of sigh escaping him, that initial urge to defend his (admittedly nonexistent, his face really just wasn't made for it) lying skills easily brushed aside by the cumulative weight of exhaustion and anxiety and sleeplessness and still-lingering mild terror-

Eyes closed, weary fatigue bearing down upon him, it still look longer than it should have for the veil of slumber to properly catch him, what with how he spent more time than he cared to consciously account for counting Sebastian's heartbeats as they resonated against him, each pulse accompanied instantly memorized sounds of the snap of a bone and the unnatural resonating stretch of a tendon and the creak of a swelling and tightening muscle-

He did, eventually, fall asleep, his brown frozen into a frown, hand sorely still clenching around Sebastian's shirt, his whole body angled in against him in a specific way just for the sake of being able to feel his pulse, and his breath, curling up around the way his hand still curled over his wrist.

Yeah. Later-