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[jackrabbits]

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doooone

[jackrabbits]

It's alright if you makes choices. I want you to do that.

[grinning with UTMOST confidence]

But that love is the one thing I won't give up.

Re: doooone

[likeawritingdesk]

[Gil stands very, very still, his eyes wide in shock and mortification and panic and more shock. His hand twitches in Oz's, and by the time he's done it's practically shaking. His face is terribly red



and also abruptly crying]

Re: doooone

[likeawritingdesk]

[but he laughs, an awkward burst at first, but it spills out anyway--]

Y-- you...


All of that...

Oz... Oz, I didn't choose Break! We were matched on arrival, and God help us both it's kept him from signing up with lunatics who'd stab him just as soon as anything else, and my objectives, they don't suit you at all, I, God, and my head, I'm sorry, I don't know what else I can do but try to make this place safer because it's where we are now, it's where you'll live and I hardly know what to make of my own body anymore anyway, but when I fight it's like I have any kind of, bearings, and -- Nikolas, he -- I love you, Oz, I'm sorry, I didn't think --

[likeawritingdesk]

I didn't think...

I never thought...

[likeawritingdesk]

[nope back to babble]

I didn't, that's too many things, I disappointed you with, I don't want to disappoint you anymore. Y-- you knew.

How long have you known.

[jackrabbits]

[nooooooooo, I'm suppose to tease you into submission! SO WHY AM I SUDDENLY FEELING EMBARRASSED]

[jackrabbits]

[a-ahem, trying to mask the pink rising in his own face]

Did you know Nikolas told me that he loved you the very first day I arrived?

[likeawritingdesk]

.......................



Of course he did

[jackrabbits]

That silly fool. That's what happens when you don't sleep properly.

[likeawritingdesk]

H-he.

That. Idiot.

Y-- you didn't say anything--!

[jackrabbits]

I didn't need to. I already knew that you loved me, and honestly, he knew too. I don't think there's anyone that knows you that doesn't know.

Though there's one thing I'm certain that you don't know.

[likeawritingdesk]

[c-choked.]

W--what could be left.

[jackrabbits]

I love you, too.

[likeawritingdesk]

[gasps sharply.]

[jackrabbits]

...really, Gil. Even Elliot knows. You really are stupid.

[likeawritingdesk]

[Actual sob]

Elliot--!

I...

I'm sorry... I've always been stupid...

[jackrabbits]

I know.

[reaching to grab for your face, laughing]

[likeawritingdesk]

[i was so great at not crying at you at this age. f-f-face grabbed, it's hot and wet]

I know you know--! I'm sorry! I'm sorry. Oz.

[jackrabbits]

I know. I'm gonna have to punish you though!

[tugging at his face, pulling it doooown]

[likeawritingdesk]

[wraps his arms around him and kisses him]

[jackrabbits]

[it only took you until I made 1500 comments to do so. GOOD JOB.]

[likeawritingdesk]

[man imagine how many comments ages 9ish-16 are. +10 for gil. so many]

[if this is a dream i hope i just die right now that would be okay]

[jackrabbits]

[you could have done a million question memes by now probably]

[eventually oz pulls away from the kiss long enough to stare at gil's face for a moment. of course, he's still clinging to him either way]

[jiiiii]

[likeawritingdesk]

[Gil pulls in a choppy, stammered breath, not daring or wanting to let Oz go, flush to his ears and stunned and smitten. For the moment, his fears and complications decimated, all he's got when he looks at Oz is awe and love.]

I KNOW I REPLIED TO THIS SOB I AM SORRY

[jackrabbits]

[He just wanted to see what his expression was so he could tease him, but then Oz saw Gil's face and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed himself]

. . . I must have really given you a hard time, didn't I?