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Huvrye Tirvio ([personal profile] effiomsfavorite) wrote2022-11-28 10:50 am

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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-06-11 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Leo's actually been sleeping pretty well lately, all things considered. His talk with Huvrye all those months ago in the Diadem had been the start, like he'd opened a release valve, and Donnie's arrival had only helped. As he's settled into his routine, found more people he can rely on, had more days where he was safe, he's had more and more peaceful nights.

Huvrye getting shot had messed him up just a little, insomnia catching him in its clutches for a few days yet again, but even that's ebbed as time has passed.

Still, his sleep has been light, like his body is waiting for another shoe to drop - and it seems like it has when he hears Huvrye scream.

He wakes in a flurry of motion, grabbing for his swords without even thinking about it. His immediate thought is that the guys who shot him (or someone worse) have shown up and are on the attack. He rushes into the hall, still in his pajamas, and for one dizzying second he debates if he should go for Huvrye or Donnie first before deciding to follow the screaming.

So Leo opens the door and shoots through it, one sword out and ready, the other slung over his shoulder, expecting enemies and finding only Huvrye, breathing hard and fast and tangled up in his bed sheets. His brain catches up with the situation, and he realizes what he's actually looking at.

I've had nightmares like that before, Huvrye had said. The kind where your body wakes up and your mind doesn't for a bit. The kind that take your worst memories and trap you in them.

Leo lowers his sword, straightens out of his fight stance, and nudges the door shut with his foot.]


...Huv?

[He watches him for signs that Huvrye is aware. That his mind is awake.]
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-06-11 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Leo doesn’t fight the hug, just angling his katana away so no one gets hurt. The hug is more desperate than any Huvrye has ever given him before, and Leo reaches with his free arm to hug back.

Huvrye rubs his hand up and down Leo’s shell, and it feels too hurried, too methodical to be an attempt at comfort. He’s searching for something, and Leo wonders what that could possibly mean. What kind of nightmare this was.]


…I’m okay. [He says this because he thinks Huvrye thinks he wasn’t. That’s why he’s touching Leo’s shell, like he’s expecting cracks, but there are none there.] Don’t know what you saw, but it was just a nightmare.

You’re okay. [He grips Huvrye a little tighter, butting his head against his chest.] You’re safe.

[Echoing the words Huvrye says to him, when his own horrors wake him up at night.]
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-06-11 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Leo doesn’t break the hug or pull away, letting Huvrye hold on as long as he needs to. He can feel him shaking, and it worries Leo, but he thinks all Huvrye needs is to breathe through it. He’s healed from the gunshots, physically, but maybe not emotionally.

Or maybe this is about a wound that goes deeper than the gunshots.

I’ve had nightmares like that before.

So he lets Huvrye hug him and he hugs him back, and he doesn’t ask any questions. He just waits for Huvrye to finish coming back from wherever his mind took him.]
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-07-11 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Is he okay? Leo watches Huvrye with open worry as he pulls away, not sure how much he believes that.

At the apology, he shrugs.]


Not like I haven’t done the same to you. …A lot.

[More than just once.]

You wanna talk about it?

[The question comes to him easily, because it’s obvious to him now, isn’t it? You talk about it, and that makes it better.

If it can work for him it can work for Huvrye, right?]
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-07-27 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
...Okay.

[Leo can agree to that easily enough. He'd want Huvrye to do the same if the Krang ever showed up here, after all.

Though that makes him wonder if this woman with red hair and rainbow wings is really like the Krang - cruel, heartless, and powerful. From the way Huvrye is warning him about her, it sounds like she is, and that makes a chill run down Leo's shell.]


Is she who you're having nightmares about?

[What did she do to hurt Huvrye that badly?]
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[personal profile] faceguy 2023-07-28 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Leo debates that answer, shifting a bit on the spot. How much is he supposed to ask? Huvrye said he doesn't want to talk about it, and Leo gets that, but at the same time...

He's still worried about it.]


Did she hurt you?

[He'll start with that question - it feels easy enough to answer, to Leo.

(Though, with the way Huvrye was checking his shell, maybe she hurt someone else.)

(Or both. Both is always a possibility.)]