Aspirin-Dazed
You're always in pain. You just can't feel it anymore.
That's what Ian had said when he walked in on Kai trying to stop Spencer's head from bleeding all over the floor, and Kai had said Hurry up and get some painkillers, they're in the kitchen cupboard, and Ian didn't move. He just said it slowly, deliberately, like he believed every word, watching Spencer's head cracked open bleeding, You're always in pain. You just can't feel it anymore.
Spencer's bleeding head where he'd cracked it on the railing after Bryan tripped him down the stairs and his soft moaning made Ian all philosophical about things. Maybe in shock. But he just stood there half in, half out the door and didn't lend a hand. Kai said, Then hurry fucking up and apply pressure, come ON, and dragged Ian by the wrist at Spencer and ran for the kitchen.
But Ian just looked vaguely down at the blood, tilted his head, watched Bryan and Tala staring down from the landing. They all looked like they believed the words. Even Spencer, who sat dazedly up, forgetting to apply pressure because Why? They were always in pain. They just couldn't feel it anymore.