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[personal profile] fried 2025-02-19 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
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No! Probably not! Look, you -- no! [ well if it was necessary, yknow. ]
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[personal profile] gutterbound 2025-02-19 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
All right all right all right! [Waving it off, exasperated. It is not a Matthew Mconnaughey impression. He does not know who that is.]

Look. You're a far ways off from losing your mind yet, okay? And we may be at war but if a soldier goes dead or missing in-between active combat, there's a helluva a lot of questions why. So the first thing we're going to do is regroup. We won't let you turn on anyone, and we won't leave you in the lurch while figuring out how to proceed.

So, gimme your hand, let's get up and get going. No one's going to take you behind the barn for sprouting a few fronds.
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[personal profile] fried 2025-02-19 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ the soldier looks a little relieved at this, and takes a deep breath. he holds out a hand to be helped up. ]

... Thank you. [ he says, with a shivery exhale. ] I just wasn't expecting... I'm not really that old, I thought...

Okay. Thank you.

[ there's a pause, where eddie kind of hover hands this poor man like he's gonna pat him on the shoulder, and then doesn't, just gently... wiping his hand on his pants. ]
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[personal profile] gutterbound 2025-02-19 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Watching him fuss with light amusement.]

Come on, Eds, surely you couldn't catch syphilis twice.

[But to the soldier he'll give a more genuine smile.]

Don't mind him, he's all right. And so are you.

[They can get to moving! Back to safety (i think) (:pleading_eyes:)]
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[personal profile] fried 2025-02-19 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ eddie gives him a Look but doesn't say anything for now

back to safety for them! for now. ]