[There's a tension in his body that irons itself out, and a harshness in his expression that relaxes and the change is...profound. He goes from the Wash that shot Donut and Lopez and looks like the Wash that came after, the one that walked into Blue base for the first time with a grateful slope of his shoulders because after it all there was miraculously a place where he was welcome.]
You just...let me tag along after that. Even after what I did.
[It suddenly feels like a metal spike has been jammed in his head and he holds a hand up to it.]
[And then he gets a flash of standing in a base, confused about what he was just doing, and remembers several voices gently reminding him of what he'd been in the middle of.]
[His expression is soft and his voice is softer and not as skeptical.]
And then you all helped me get by. After my injury.
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They got over it.
[There's a tension in his body that irons itself out, and a harshness in his expression that relaxes and the change is...profound. He goes from the Wash that shot Donut and Lopez and looks like the Wash that came after, the one that walked into Blue base for the first time with a grateful slope of his shoulders because after it all there was miraculously a place where he was welcome.]
You just...let me tag along after that. Even after what I did.
[It suddenly feels like a metal spike has been jammed in his head and he holds a hand up to it.]
[And then he gets a flash of standing in a base, confused about what he was just doing, and remembers several voices gently reminding him of what he'd been in the middle of.]
[His expression is soft and his voice is softer and not as skeptical.]
And then you all helped me get by. After my injury.