WILL

[foreverphantom]

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[stunwhistle]

...you saw the horoscopes, didn't you?

[he takes a breath, trying to push the remedy bottle back to danny.]

"I don’t want you to get hurt." That's part of what he wrote to you. [...] And it must have taken a lot of courage for you to tell me, since you knew I was upset about losing him.

So... thanks. For trusting me enough to tell the truth.

[foreverphantom]

[ he lowers his head, hiding his face from view again. ]

...you're too nice.

[stunwhistle]

...

[what does he even say to that, really?]

[foreverphantom]

You were Leo in the horoscopes, weren't you.

[stunwhistle]

[he nods]

...I'm pretty sure I was, yeah.

[foreverphantom]

So this...is you "choosing to be kind"? Even to someone who killed someone you cared about?

[stunwhistle]

...I'm choosing to be kind because you're my friend. Even with what he said, I'd really struggle with it if you weren't my friend.

[he sighs heavily.]

I know you, Danny. You wouldn't have done it just for no reason at all, even if the two of you weren't close.

[foreverphantom]

...You don't really know me, Will.

[stunwhistle]

Dude, you're not going to convince me that you just up and decided to kill Reigen for funsies, so don't even try.

[he sighs.]

Maybe there's a lot I don't know about you. And maybe you're - I dunno. Maybe you've been acting a certain way 'cause we're all in a crappy situation and you're doing your best to survive. I couldn't blame you for that. The gods know that not everyone here knows everything about me, even the people I'm closest to. But I think of you as a friend and I want to know you.

...is that enough?

[foreverphantom]

...If you really knew me, you'd wish you didn't.

[stunwhistle]

That's what you think. I think that's more my decision than yours?

[foreverphantom]

Well, it sounds like killing "for funsies" might be a pretty hard line for you.

[stunwhistle]

So, what, you expect me to believe you kill people for fun and don't feel even a shred of guilt about it at all?

That doesn't line up with you calling me here to confess what happened with Reigen and return the remedy I gave you.

[foreverphantom]

...for a long time, I didn't.

This, with Reigen...is a new development.

[stunwhistle]

What changed, do you think?

[foreverphantom]

[ looking away ]

...people.

[stunwhistle]

[gently:]

...people like Nico?

[foreverphantom]

[ hunches in on himself a lil more ]

[stunwhistle]

...I'm not trying to tease you or anything. I just mean - Nico's good at connecting with people. He acts like he's not, but he is.

If he helped you, I'm glad for it.

[foreverphantom]

[ mumbles: ] ...just made it harder.

[stunwhistle]

...what do you mean?

[foreverphantom]

...it didn't hurt before, and now it does. Because when it hurts people, now it also hurts me.

[stunwhistle]

...do you want to go back to how things were before?

[foreverphantom]

...it would be easier.

[stunwhistle]

We don't always want the things that are easy, though.