foreverphantom | CHARLIE

shitpost tbd

[ help. exercising ]

[ she will wait until he's done ]

[ well

he's not going to be so much "done" as he is "collapsing to the floor from exhaustion" ]

[ walks over to him and offers him a bottle of water ]

[ hacks and wheezes pathetically as he grabs for the bottle, messily opens it, and takes a few huge gulps--before hacking some more ]

[ with complete sincerity: ]

Your stamina is improving.

[ with a wave of skepticism and some self-loathing, he rasps: ] Shut up.

Well, it is.

... I wanted to talk about earlier, Brimstone.

[ sits up now that he's not dying quite so actively anymore. he frowns around the water bottle. ]

What's there to talk about.

Well, I wanted to finish our conversation.

[ sits down next to him ]

Funny. I thought we already did.

Well-- I figured you just wanted some time to.... yourself.

[ to go scream in a corner ]

Then what's this? [ the conversation they're having right now, with him notably not by himself ]

Me coming to resume the conversation after you've had some time by yourself.

So... let's resume it.

[ no ifs or buts ]

Let's not.