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[protective_logic]

If you're hearing this message that means I'm not available at the moment.
So if you'd please leave your contact info and your message I'll get back to you at the first possible moment.
If there is a family related emergency, just keep trying until you get through.

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[protective_logic]

They will when they know.

[baruthumos]

Do you want me to tell them and report back or are you going to come out of your lair?

[protective_logic]

You... can tell them.

[baruthumos]

They've slipped a note under your door.

[protective_logic]

I... Later. I'm not ready.

[baruthumos]

Come out whenever, I just want you to know what you're coming out to. Also be careful because I think Theta is in a tackle-hug mood.

[protective_logic]

He can't do that. He could hurt me because I can't hear him coming.

[baruthumos]

[The "oh shit" is audible to everyone downstairs.]

I will remind everyone to not sneak up on you. Or tackle you at all. Theta can build up quite a bit of speed, you know.

[protective_logic]

I know. Which is why I need to stay separate.

[baruthumos]

No, you need to tell me what I can do to make it so you can come out. You are part of this family and you don't need to stay separate.

Think of it as doing me a favor. Because seeing you like this is killing me.

[protective_logic]

Please just... give me space.

[baruthumos]

Do you want space to be upset that this happened to you and it sucks? Or do you need space because you're deaf?

[protective_logic]

I need space because I'm deaf. Because if I come downstairs they're going to ask me things and I'm not going to know what they're asking. Because if I cook I could look away, forget the timer, and burn a meal. Because I can't watch TV with anyone or help anyone with homework or anything like that. Because I don't know how to live as a deaf man.

[baruthumos]

If you want to stay in there, you honestly want to and not just because of something Price said twenty years ago, then I'll run interference.

But it's not going to be forever and you're still ours. You get that, right? Both parts?

[protective_logic]

Honestly? I don't know. I figure eventually the fact that I wake up into a world of utter silence will stop being terrifying. I want to scream when I wake up, Omega. Which would do nothing for me, because I won't hear it. It will be too real. I haven't been able to sleep without Maine by my side, and now with him gone...

[baruthumos]

Is this a request for sleeping pills because I can get you some. Very safe, on the grocery store shelves.

But Friday we're going to the doctor's, and then we can go right to talk to York's medic buddies, and you are never going to get used to waking up without being able to hear. And if I have to, I will take my tiny shorts down the sidewalk to get the money. Gladly.

[protective_logic]

I tried those once, when we were younger. It... they leave me very disoriented in the mornings. I don't like them.

[baruthumos]

Okay, I won't get those for you then. Anything else you need to make it to Friday?

[protective_logic]

I think I need a hug from my big brother. I'm so scared.

[baruthumos]

Open the door.

[protective_logic]

It's... It's unlocked.