Everything about everything tonight just keeps feeling like too much, everywhere he looks, every time he blinks, every time Klaus says something else well-intended, but muddied into more of a mess than he's aiming for it to become. The emotional toll of their conversation alone might be enough to make him fall apart, but the rest of the night's events, Dad, Ben, and everything else that led him to the party in the first place all spins it so much faster, makes it hit so much harder. Not to mention the physical exhaustion that has sunk in like a boulder on top of him, suddenly.
Maybe. With all of the moving pieces that connect to make this night and this moment possible in the first place? Maybe it isn't so hard to see why he would just give up. He curls forward, and if not for the older man sitting there, he would have doubled completely over his knees, but instead he presses against Klaus, his earlier sobs still shaking his voice a little when he speaks. "I'm so tired..."
His cheek presses against the metal of the dogtags hanging around Klaus' neck and he frowns, reaching up with one hand to slide the tag along the chain, squinting at it. They weren't Klaus' own at all. But he isn't sure he can handle hearing anything else about how bad their life gets, later, so he lets it drop and doesn't ask at all.
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Maybe. With all of the moving pieces that connect to make this night and this moment possible in the first place? Maybe it isn't so hard to see why he would just give up. He curls forward, and if not for the older man sitting there, he would have doubled completely over his knees, but instead he presses against Klaus, his earlier sobs still shaking his voice a little when he speaks. "I'm so tired..."
His cheek presses against the metal of the dogtags hanging around Klaus' neck and he frowns, reaching up with one hand to slide the tag along the chain, squinting at it. They weren't Klaus' own at all. But he isn't sure he can handle hearing anything else about how bad their life gets, later, so he lets it drop and doesn't ask at all.