[ - he just barely manages to collect his knife from the tree before he gets pulled along and.
Sanji doesn't need to know how to grab onto Baren's hand. Baren will feel his heart leap up to his throat, clawing and lodging itself there, preventing him from speaking his gratitude.
It's hard to walk away from something you think you deserve - the pushing and the pushing to the breaking point where Baren thinks Sanji will focus in on that reason to leave him. His fever starts to settle in as the mark on his wrist spreads even underneath Sanji's touch, growing and stinging even as Baren tries to obscure his expression into a passive mask.
It may or may not do much, given how he feels his composure starting to break.]
He thinks it's bullshit? Where did that faith come from? Doesn't he know that he's trying to save a failure? Someone whose heart is so twisted that he torments his own blood? Doesn't this deceit make you just like your cheating father, Baren Kumou?
[Baren bites his own tongue so hard in that moment that he tastes iron. A snap judgment could acknowledge it as truth, could make that connection real, could let loose a secret that he's been holding onto for a decade.
Instead his hand just twists to catch Sanji's wrist, as if asking him not to let go.]
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Sanji doesn't need to know how to grab onto Baren's hand. Baren will feel his heart leap up to his throat, clawing and lodging itself there, preventing him from speaking his gratitude.
It's hard to walk away from something you think you deserve - the pushing and the pushing to the breaking point where Baren thinks Sanji will focus in on that reason to leave him. His fever starts to settle in as the mark on his wrist spreads even underneath Sanji's touch, growing and stinging even as Baren tries to obscure his expression into a passive mask.
It may or may not do much, given how he feels his composure starting to break.]
He thinks it's bullshit? Where did that faith come from? Doesn't he know that he's trying to save a failure? Someone whose heart is so twisted that he torments his own blood? Doesn't this deceit make you just like your cheating father, Baren Kumou?
[Baren bites his own tongue so hard in that moment that he tastes iron. A snap judgment could acknowledge it as truth, could make that connection real, could let loose a secret that he's been holding onto for a decade.
Instead his hand just twists to catch Sanji's wrist, as if asking him not to let go.]