The Morning After...

[berwaldsverige]

Berwald opened his eyes, the sun was up, but not shining this rainy gray morning. Even the skies reflected how he felt. Tino was curled up in the chair beside his bed, one hand resting on Berwald's arm. Well, he presumed that greenish blur in the red chair was Tino, he knew how that hand felt on his skin. God, what a mess his life was right now.

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[tino_suomi]

The commotion had begun to stir the Finn, it wasn't until the nurse had left did his lulling head finally lift off the edge of the bed. "Mm? Ber-Bear?" He questioned, reaching up to stroke the Swede's face with his knuckle. "Does it hurt?" He asked through a yawn, continuing the gentle touching as he sat up a bit and planted a kiss on Berwald's cheek, near his lips. "Good morning."

[berwaldsverige]

"She just gave me something. I don't like it, it's a drug rush." Berwald replied, obviously strained. He was still fighting the panic. Trying to breathe.

It helped to close his eyes and focus on the cool fingers on his face. Tino was a balm to his nerves. "I want to hold you right now so bad." Berwald almost WHIMPERED. He needed that anchor to reality that was Tino.

[tino_suomi]

"Okay, I'll try to help with that." He smiled, managing to sit on just the end of the bed, Berwald filled it up so much, but he got his arms around the jotunn's neck and coaxed a tired limb around his own waste. "There there. Okay? I won't let you go until you're ready okay?" He offered, showering kisses on the top of Berwald's head. "I'm gonna stay with you as long as they'll let me."

[berwaldsverige]

Berwald just pulled Tino down onto his chest and HELD HIM. He cried again, he was going to miss this so much.

"I so scared." He admitted quietly into Tino's hair. "I don't want to go to jail and lose you."

[tino_suomi]

"Ah, muscle spasm?" He questioned, immediately up and trying to rub the muscle that Berwald had been clenching at. Heat and friction eased that kind of thing for him when he had muscle pains in his legs. But that was a lot different. These were probably more painful than his middle of the night spasms.

Rubbing vigorously he questioned. "Any better?"

[berwaldsverige]

"Not really askling. But thank you beautiful." Berwald said kissing Tino's cheek. It's not a cramp so much as a stab of pain. This brace is also annoying. I don't like not being able to bend my knee at all." Berwald frowned trying to get comfortable in that bed and failing.

The nurse came in at last with his discharge papers. Then she asked him to sign them and he laughed.

"I can't see the pen let alone the line you want me to sign. Unless you want a vague "X" on the page, Tino will have to sign for me right now." Berwald said and the nurse laughed turning to Tino.

"You can sign for him. If you're responsible for his care and feeding, That's fine." She joked handing the papers to Tino.

[tino_suomi]

"Even though I'm only 15?" He asked, a little surprised. When the nurse nodded he took the clip board and signed his name. "Well, I guess that it should be the person who is taking care of him, regardless of age." For having some windsome, child like features, Tino was also mature beyond his years in other ways, particularly where responsibility was involved.

"I thought, before, that only family and spouses could, but I guess circumstances being what they are, I'm it." He mused handing back the clip board.

[berwaldsverige]

"You are my family. You're all I have Askling." Berwald said... tasting that word SPOUSES on his mind and LONGING for it