The Air Thickens

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A/N: nene is mcspecialized in ending panic attacks from experience alone fight me

trigger warning for:- hospitals- tsukasa having a flashback/panic attack (it isnt said exactly what he's seeing it's just mentioned hes having one)



"Tsukasa-kun! Tsukasa-kun! Rui-kun, should we get one of the nurses?!"


"It's no use. Rui's as lost as Tsukasa is." Nene said. Looks like she'd have to take matters into her own hands. "Emu, deal with Rui, me and Saki-chan will stay with Tsukasa-kun."


Emu looked like she wanted to object, but decided against it and simply grabbed Rui's wrist and dragged him away. Rui didn't fight back, or respond at all.


That idiot. I'll have a talk with him later.


"Tsukasa-kun." Nene said, turning back to the blond before her. The blondes, actually.


Okay, so here's the plan. She has to act fast. The facts are: one, Tsukasa is having what she thinks is him reliving all his childhood trauma, and if they somehow make his situation worse Nene will actually curl up and die. Two, his sister, Saki, is halfway through her own breakdown, which means that she's probably not going to be much help here. Three, for some ungodly reason, Rui chose right now to have the seventh emotional crisis this month or some shit like that. Hopefully Emu would be able to deal with him before he blew up something out of pure sadness.


Okay, quick, quick thinking, Nene. Step one, bring him back to the real world without yelling at him or anything because maybe his parents were mean to him or something. That should be easy enough. Step two, make sure he won't die and can actually breathe and things like that. Nene's been through her fair share of panic attacks, so that should also be easy enough. Step three, make sure Saki is okay, make sure Rui is okay, and then find a therapist for all of them.


Flawless plan. Except she doesn't have any money to pay for a therapist. She'll figure it out soon enough.


"Tsukasa." She repeated. No answer. Hm... "Tsukasa, whatever you're seeing, whatever you're hearing, it's all past."


Nene debated calling one of the nurses, but then she heard some sort of strangled sob noise from Saki, and realized that would be a horrible idea. Not only would it probably make Tsukasa's situation worse, but it would serve to panic Saki even more... what a complicated situation.


"Tsukasa, can you hear me?" She slowly and very carefully placed her arm on Tsukasa's leg, and he flinched slightly, but it seemed to help, because he looked up at her, shaking.


The tears were falling freely from his eyes now, and he looked like the human equivalent of a kicked puppy. He reminded her of Rui. She ignored the pang of guilt she felt at that thought, and repeated, "Tsukasa, can you hear me?"


"...'m sorry." He responded, uncharacteristically dejected and quiet. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for being impatient. I know you're busy."

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