I snapped my head up to look at him in surprise.

“I wonder what it says that the notion of you being a traitor is so ingrained in my impression of you that it jumps to mind, even with the mist affecting me?”

Eesh.

“That’s enough,” I said.

“I know you like me.  I can read it on your face, I could see the way your eyes widened when you heard my name.  You’re an open book in some ways.  And I’ll tell you right now, I’m pretty sure I’m in love with you.”

Fuckin’ hell, this is the worst possible way we could get to the point of him actually saying that. This ship just keeps getting more painful.

Well played, Wildbow.

I felt a nervous feeling deep in my gut.  It wasn’t pleasant, at stark odds to what he was saying.

Yeah, I can feel the contrast too.

I’m scared for where he’s going with this next.

When his mind is compromised in some way, Brian can be coddamn brutal verbally.

Grue’s words spoke to that feeling of trepidation.  “But this?  It’s telling me I could never have a relationship with you, never be close to you, because I’ll always wonder if you’ll stab me in the back or fuck me over, fail to do what’s necessary in a situation like this.

You know what this reminds me of? It reminds me of Parasite, Taylor and Rachel.

I’ll never be able to shake that image of you as a traitor.”

Ow.

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