From: atotheb	Date: December 31st, 2010 07:21 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

She put her hand on his chest, almost as if to feel his heartbeat or some connection. She couldn't tell if this was histrionics or something more serious. "I'm running away from the party." Shit I can't deal with right now. "Why's it over?" she asked, shifting the attention away from her and onto him.

	From: mightbeclever	Date: December 31st, 2010 11:27 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

He thought about just not answering her, ignoring the question all together, but she had been strangely nice to him since they'd last spoke. "Do you think," he started, before hesitating. It was a ridiculous question that he already knew the real answer to. It didn't stop him, though, from blindly hoping it was something you could just change with a sweep of a wand.

He let his hand drop to where her's was on his chest, his heart in not no danger of exploding...or stopping (for the moment.) Looking away from her, he stared at the ceiling, contemplating all the rifts he'd caused with the people around him. "Why are people still my friend?"

It wasn't really what he'd started to say, but it was a safer conversation in general. Or at least his drugged, drunk brain thought it was.

	From: atotheb	Date: January 2nd, 2011 05:08 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

"No idea," she said flipping her hand over to hold his, offering him a light squeeze. "Maybe they think, because I think so, that there's a good person in there somewhere."

She leaned in closer and sighed over him. "I don't know if it counts for anything, but I like you."

	From: mightbeclever	Date: January 3rd, 2011 04:22 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

"Heh. That makes one," he said softly, eyes closing as he lifted his other hand to rub them. For now, everything seemed calmer. He couldn't figure out why, really. He certainly didn't feel happier for it.

"I think Gael hates me." Which was a terrible, sinking realization. His worst nightmare, rejection from his own twin. How could things get much worse?

	From: atotheb	Date: January 3rd, 2011 04:28 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

She didn't have any of the pieces to this story, but surely something bad transpired over the vacation, bad enough to send Leon into that state. "Did you do, or say something?"

	From: mightbeclever	Date: January 3rd, 2011 04:38 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

"We got into it," he said softly, rubbing his forehead as he paused for a long moment to collect his thoughts. Gael made two people that knew, one of whom probably hated him forever for telling her but she'd never say it.

Damn Rowan.

"And....I told him something..." he said, struggling with his own feelings of self-hatred as they began to well up. He could be such a fucking idiot sometimes. Why did he ever say something at all? Now Rowan was all over him telling everyone! All he wanted to do was fix it! Be...not gay.

	From: atotheb	Date: January 3rd, 2011 04:51 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

"Must have been pretty serious." Ordinarily AB would push for the truth, but with the state Leon was in she didn't dare. If he wanted to spill he would do it on his own terms.

"But he's your brother," she tried. Being a twin herself she knew what it was like to forgive the slights and bruises that she might not have forgiven her older brother for if he'd been responsible. "However bad it is I bet he'll talk it out with you."

	From: mightbeclever	Date: January 3rd, 2011 05:02 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

"How would you feel if your sister told you she was gay?" He wanted to know in all honesty, but he didn't have that same faith that she did. He didn't believe that Gael would be so willing to forgive and forget. Especially not to forget.

	From: atotheb	Date: January 3rd, 2011 05:13 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

Without stopping to think about it Abernathy shrugged. "I'd love her. Fuck that shit man. I don't care if she's gay. I mean... She's been diagnosed with schizophrenia. And I don't care. Well. I care, but I care about her. Not who she might want to sleep with or however the fuck crazy she might be."

And then the gravity of Leon's words started to sink in on her.

She squeezed the hand she held against his chest. "I don't care if you're gay either." She stretched out beside him on the cold tile floor and wrapped her arms around him. "And fuck everybody else who does because they don't matter."

	From: mightbeclever	Date: January 3rd, 2011 05:40 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

This was pathetic, Leon thought, he didn't make it a point, or habit to spend his days crying about how much his life sucked. But for the third time that night, he was fighting in vain to keep himself from crying. He rolled into Abernathy, taking a shuddering breath as he choked out a muffled sob that had been trying to get out for a long time.

	From: atotheb	Date: January 4th, 2011 05:39 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Leon/Abernathy

She didn't really know what to do now or how to make this any better for him, so she held him tight as he sobbed against her. At the very least she could be someone to turn to if he needed it.

How strange that they had become friends, weirder still that she was laying with him sobbing in her arms on Sam's bathroom floor. She squeezed him tighter and held back from speaking. She didn't have much useful to say and he didn't need to hear her half-assed advice.