Alternate Universe (Going Human)
His chest hurts.
Correction: his everything hurts.
The portal burned through his being and rewrote his everything, made it so he was no longer a ghost – but he wasn't human, either. He was something strange, something in between.
And it hurt to even change into a human, at least the first few times. It was not a seamless transition either way. Sure, the transition back to normal wasn't so bad – but then again, dying was a natural part of life. Resurrection? Not so much.
He doesn't know how long he'll be able to keep up the pretense of everything being fine around his parents, though. He doesn't know what he's supposed to do.