Once bitten twice shy

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Characters: The Ψiioniic and YOU
Setting: hall on the 2nd floor of the dorms to start with, after that we can move elsewhere
Format: Prose preferred but I'll match you
Summary: Ψ is finally venturing out again
Warnings: Probably not but with the trolls you never know when it'll end in bloodshed and violence

It took a day or so before Ψiioniic was willing to venture out of his respite block again. Not that the room felt all that safe, considering Signless and Suzaku had attacked him in his sleep. Still safer than the rest of the tower, though.

When he did finally poke his head out, he was very wary and nervous, much as he had been when he'd first arrived in the tower. At least his had his powers firmly back under control, which made him feel a whole lot better about his ability to defend himself.

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((It's okay! Um, I think for the sake of not assuming too much, the latter is probably better.))

"Thank goodness..!" She stopped just short of him, hands rising a little as if she meant to throw her arms around him, but instead dropped them almost immediately, fidgeting slightly. She couldn't just assume it was okay to hug him like that, even if they were friends. Still, the want to do so was obviously there, even as she smiled up at him, her expression radiating relief. "So you're... you're definitely back to normal now? Everything as it should be?"

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((works for me. Signless-mun just went on hiatus so that thread's not going to get finished, but we live together so we can talk it out. Or maybe just Sollux will have killed him, since they're the same mun, lol.))

He hesitated for just a brief moment, but then reached out to stroke her hair, his posture open to indicate that he would welcome a hug. He had to trust people. If he was going to spend all his time scared of his friends, he might as well stay locked up in his respite block. Besides, she hadn't hurt him, it was just that so MANY of the people he knew had aggressed him before he'd finally been killed.

"Yeah, good ath new, at least it theems like it," he assured her. "Powerth all working fine again, and I feel normal. Have you theen Kanaya, is she doing okay too?"

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((Okay! Either way works for me!))

"I haven't seen her- I actually haven't seen anyone but my roommates- I think everyone might still be trying to get over things..."

The ruffle to her hair is welcomed with a slight, pleased sound, and she beams up at him, glad to see that he does, in fact, seem back to his usual self again. The slight shift in his stance isn't lost on her, and she hesitates once again before throwing herself forward, arms wrapping around him and giving a slight squeeze. Cheek pressed somewhere in the vicinity of his stomach, she breathed a sigh of relief at the proof that he was solid and in fact, not a hallucination- and therefore really an honestly alright.

"Good. Should we... go look for Kanaya and the others? See if they're okay too."

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He continued to stroke her hair, since she seemed to welcome the reassurance. He's actually starting to get used to having so many children around, and really she just seems like a smaller version of an adult in a lot of ways.

Not that there were a lot of adults he'd have let get this close, but there were a surprising number of people in the tower he didn't mind being hugged by, it seemed. He wasn't really complaining.

"I ran into Romeo and he wath fine again," he said. "Hopefully that means the others are, too. I wouldn't mind checking, though. Were you affected, too?"

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She made a barely-audible sound at getting her hair stroked, the sensation surprisingly reassuring even coming from an adult. It probably helped that she hardly even thought of him as an adult anymore- he was just her friend, nothing else. She pulled back a little to listen to him and then shifted uncomfortably at his question before giving a single, slow nod.

"Yes, I was- it wasn't entirely unfamiliar, really just... I've never had visions of the dead that were so... thorough before."

She cocked her head a little, fingers curling against him where they were pressed to his sides, and sighed very, very quietly.

"I'm sorry I wasn't more help before."

The apology was sincere- she hadn't been able to help him at all, and while she wasn't sure just how he'd gotten back to normal, she had a theory, and it wasn't one she altogether liked.

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"It'th okay, it's not your fault," he assured her. "You see the dead?" He could hear the doomed, but he wasn't sure if seeing the dead would be an improvement over his powers or not. "Sollux wath talking about his visionth being stronger than usual, too. I'm kinda glad mine were quieter than normal."

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"Usually I only hear them. I can control them too, to a degree..." She added, and wrinkled her nose a bit. "They're not really the best thing to have in your head, but at least it's not as bad as what Sollux hears..." She patted his arm then and pulled back from the hug a little. "It was probably for the best in your condition, yeah..."