His Name Is Blurryface *Joshler*

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Josh wakes up way too early, so he decides to go down to the cafeteria for some coffee. After his morning caffeine fix, Josh goes into his empty office, and begins to unpack the boxes of his belongings that Illumin sent back to him.

Josh begins redecorating his office, and relearns Imagina’s routine. It didn’t take long until it seemed like Josh never left, and that made Josh smile.

When Josh logs on, he gets pulled into an emergency meeting via Skype. The meeting runs for a long time, and Josh realizes that Tyler has probably woken up by now. Not wanting to upset Tyler, Josh pages Patrick to inform Tyler that Josh is on a call, and to give Tyler his breakfast and meds.

30 minutes later, Josh hears a crash outside of his door and a scream that sounded too much like Tyler. Luckily, the meeting was just finishing up, allowing Josh to open his door.

Josh was momentarily confused because the hallway looked completely normal. This was until Josh heard a scream coming from Tyler’s room and another bang on the wall. With that, Josh scrambles to open Tyler’s door, finding Tyler on the floor and Brendon too close to him.

Brendon doesn’t register that Josh is there, but Tyler does. Tyler locks his watery eyes with Josh when Brendon beings screaming again.

“Tyler! Take your damn medicine!!” Brendon says thrusting the cup of pills towards him again, making Tyler sink further into the wall.

Tyler’s eyes somewhat glass over before his leg comes flying up, kicking Brendon to the floor and punching him while shaking violently.

Josh springs into action, grabbing Tyler’s waist, pulling him off of Brendon. Brendon immediately runs out of the room in a frenzy, and Tyler continues floundering in Josh’s arms, his limbs flying everywhere making Josh more alert.

“Ty, Ty, calm down.”

“L-LET GO OF ME! DON’T TOU-CH ME!”

“Ty, it’s Josh. I’m not gonna hurt you, I need you to calm down for-”

“LET GO! LET GO! GO AWAY!” Tyler screams at the top of his lungs as tears flow out of his eyes. “I’m sorry, it won’t ha-ppen again.” Tyler adds in a whisper.

Josh realizes that Tyler is most likely having a flashback to his abuse, so Josh places Tyler on his bed, and steps away.

“P-please don’t hurt me. I’m so-rry.” Tyler mumbles as he remains shaking before giving one last scream: “LEAVE ME ALONE!”

With that, Josh decides to give Tyler some space, and steps just outside of the room, sitting right outside of the door. Once Josh catches his breath again, he looks up and sees Brendon sitting a couple feet away from him.

“Brendon, what the hell?!”

“I’m sorry! It’s been a rough day, and he wouldn't take the meds, and I got frustrated.”

“I understand that Bren, but you can’t just go around triggering him into a violent flashback. You know he’s sensitive!”

“I know! I’m sorry Josh, I think I’m gonna go ask Pat for the rest of the day off...”

“Yeah, that’d be smart. I’m just gonna camp outside his door until he comes back to reality.”

“Sounds good, and sorry again Josh.”

“It’s fine, you really should be apologizing to Tyler, not me.”

“I will. Tomorrow.” Brendon nods as he begins to stand up. “Bye Dun!”

“Bye Bren.” Josh says as he rests his head on the wall after Brendon starts to walk away.

Josh sits in the hallway, back against the wall for another 30 minutes before deciding to check in on Tyler. He gets up to his feet, and knocks on the door before opening it.