You don't have to get back up, just yet. In the meanwhile, well.
[ He doesn't say it, but he turns his head against him slightly where he's slumped against his side, his arm tugging him closer, fingers stroking over his wrist. In the meanwhile, Miles can lean on him. There's only so much he can do, but god, it's so exhausting to be strong all the time in the face of something awful, Wash knows how that is, even if he had to act that way for the people he led. What helped was having anywhere he didn't have to be that way. Where he could count on someone else, where he could be weak and vulnerable, even for a while. ]
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You don't have to get back up, just yet. In the meanwhile, well.
[ He doesn't say it, but he turns his head against him slightly where he's slumped against his side, his arm tugging him closer, fingers stroking over his wrist. In the meanwhile, Miles can lean on him. There's only so much he can do, but god, it's so exhausting to be strong all the time in the face of something awful, Wash knows how that is, even if he had to act that way for the people he led. What helped was having anywhere he didn't have to be that way. Where he could count on someone else, where he could be weak and vulnerable, even for a while. ]