"You didn't even know me, I imagine it was pretty weird, on top of everything else."
Some kid from a bar. Louis had taken 'home' so many. Suddenly one was still there, was brutalized, while Louis was slowly burning to death. Daniel remembers the smell, and the heat of him. Once he'd finally figured out what had happened, he thought—
"I couldn't sleep," he says. "I was too terrified. I think I asked you why you weren't in the shower in an ice bath, or something, but you were asleep then, I'm sure. Maybe I was blocking the light well enough."
Just a little from the newspaper-gauze windows, but Daniel had still between between Louis and the wall, shielding him. He thought of safety PSAs in school. You were supposed to hold a burn under running water, because it might still be burning inside your skin. But Armand had just left Louis there.
"I'm glad you survived." Daniel reaches out, touches Louis' cheek in a mirror of how he'd touched Daniel on the sofa. "I know you know. I hope you know. But I might not have ever said."
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Some kid from a bar. Louis had taken 'home' so many. Suddenly one was still there, was brutalized, while Louis was slowly burning to death. Daniel remembers the smell, and the heat of him. Once he'd finally figured out what had happened, he thought—
"I couldn't sleep," he says. "I was too terrified. I think I asked you why you weren't in the shower in an ice bath, or something, but you were asleep then, I'm sure. Maybe I was blocking the light well enough."
Just a little from the newspaper-gauze windows, but Daniel had still between between Louis and the wall, shielding him. He thought of safety PSAs in school. You were supposed to hold a burn under running water, because it might still be burning inside your skin. But Armand had just left Louis there.
"I'm glad you survived." Daniel reaches out, touches Louis' cheek in a mirror of how he'd touched Daniel on the sofa. "I know you know. I hope you know. But I might not have ever said."