[Yeah, he's not okay. That's pretty damn obvious. Wash can recognize denial when he sees it, but if denial is what's working right now, he's not going to break Greg out of it. That'll come later.]
Yeah.
[There's a moment of silence, and then another. He's bad at this. He's bad at emotions, bad at people, and there's a part of him that just doesn't want to care - not here, not where he knows he or anyone else could be yanked away at any moment-]
[But he can't help himself. Greg is here, and he's not okay, and they're all stuck here together, and Wash just can't ignore his empathy like he could a few years ago.]
[He isn't Recovery One anymore. He hasn't been for a long time. Burning everything down from the inside out is no longer an option - it hasn't been for a long time. It's easier in the very short term, but it just fucks everything up in the long run. He has to remember that.]
[And he has to try.]
Look, I'm bad at...at all of this. But we're in the same boat. If you need someone to listen...I can do that.
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Yeah.
[There's a moment of silence, and then another. He's bad at this. He's bad at emotions, bad at people, and there's a part of him that just doesn't want to care - not here, not where he knows he or anyone else could be yanked away at any moment-]
[But he can't help himself. Greg is here, and he's not okay, and they're all stuck here together, and Wash just can't ignore his empathy like he could a few years ago.]
[He isn't Recovery One anymore. He hasn't been for a long time. Burning everything down from the inside out is no longer an option - it hasn't been for a long time. It's easier in the very short term, but it just fucks everything up in the long run. He has to remember that.]
[And he has to try.]
Look, I'm bad at...at all of this. But we're in the same boat. If you need someone to listen...I can do that.