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Rook looked around his partner's room, typical Ben. Clothes on the floor, bed unmade, sumo slammer posters on the wall. All of this seemed like the Ben he knew, the Ben he came to enjoy. Not this Ben in front of him, who sat on the bed, looking at the floor. Rook sighed softly and looked at the brunette.
" Ben, take off the gauze, please." Rook had hoped that speaking to Ben in this calm and soothing tone would get him to corporate better. The teen sighed and took off his hoodie, not looking at Rook and with shaking hands he unwrapped his gauze covered arms.
Rook's eyes widened at the scene before him as the same metallic scent from before hit his nose, he felt his legs go weak, he held on to the nearby dresser for support.
"T-these wounds…they are self inflicted, are they not?" Ben couldn't speak, let alone look up at him. He felt so ashamed, the brunette merely nodded.
" why, Ben?"
" i-i don't know, I was upset and-and hurt all at once. W-when Kevin showed up it brought up everything….i-i couldn't handle it, Rook, it was a tidal wave of pain, I felt o-overwhelmed, I wanted it to stop. I didn't want to feel anything!" Ben explained as he broke down in tears, the saltiness of them stinging his cuts.
Rook couldn't pull his eyes away, some were scars and week old scabs, others were still bright red and bleeding ruby life energy. He gritted his teeth, feeling furious, at who, he didn't know. He wasn't sure if he should've been mad at Ben for doing this to himself or Kevin for being the cause of Ben's pain.
This could not be fixed with a ' there, there' and a pat on the head, this was something of a far greater pain and sadness. This was an ocean of pain and inner turmoil for the younger teen.
Ben winced when he felt the tears sting his cuts but kept talking as he whipped away his tears with the back of his hand even though they kept coming.
" Rook, i'm sorry that i did this, i always regret doing it later on but when the pain fills me up that i feel like i'm gonna drown in it, i cut a-and everything just stops and put on pause and-" The brunette suddenly found himself laying on the bed, his alien friend on top of him, gently cradling his face and whipping away his tears. Ben noticed the revonnahgander's eyes were wet as if they were holding back tears and burned with such passion that it was almost too much for the human to bare.
" Ben Kirby Tennyson, I swear to you, as your partner, i will not allow you to drown. I will keep you floating at any cost, on everything that i am, i will not allow this to happen again."
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