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Pizza Time Sadness

"There we go, a nice large pizza with extra cheese," Brett said, still slightly hoarse. It wouldn't be possible to hear if you didn't know he had just been choked a few hours before, though. He brought it into his bedroom where he had asked Eddy to wait, closing the door behind him.

Eddy looked up from where he sat on the floor, by the bed, he didn't feel like he belonged there. Not after what he did, not after Brett acted like it was fine. He fidgeted with his hands slightly as he attempted to smile at the older male, to pretend that everything was okay too. His attempt was unsuccessful, the smile almost faltering instantly. Maybe he could pretend better if he couldn't hear the rawness of Brett's throat or the bandages, "It smells good."

He mumbled whilst looking down at his hands to avoid any eye contact.

"I think so too. It's just like the old days," Brett smiled, putting the pizza down on the little table he had, just to keep it off the floor. Then he sat down on the floor with Eddy, crossing his legs. "Remember when we used to have pizza together every other weekend or so? I loved that."

It wasn't like old times, he had never hurt Brett back then...or tried to kill him on three different counts. Impending doom lingered over Eddy's head as he could only feel the sorrow of the situation, "Yeah it was like our tradition, especially after homework or big tests. We did it to celebrate."

There was nothing to celebrate now, but he thought the least he could do was keep up some conversation.

"I guess we're kind of celebrating something now, so that's fitting," Brett said as he opened the pizza box. He was actually kind of hungry, but he was worried he'd begin coughing once he tried to eat.

"Celebrating that I didn't accidentally kill you..?" Eddy's voice cracked as he said that, that shouldn't be a celebration, he should be getting punished or something not pizza! He did say he'd do anything though so he couldn't argue too much about this.

Brett scooted closer to Eddy, reaching out to stroke his arm carefully.
"Celebrating being together for a bit," he spoke softly, smiling a bit still but nowhere near as much as he did when he came in with the pizza. "I've already forgiven you for that, you didn't mean to do it."

Eddy fell silent, he didn't deserve forgiveness. Why was Brett so nice, or stupid enough to forgive him. Like Eddy knew Brett was borderline genius and had to be to run all of this, but sometimes he also thought he was really stupid to let it all fall apart just because he wanted Eddy to be okay.

"Grab a slice," Brett suggested, doing so himself. He didn't particularly want to think about being choked before eating, especially as the thought made him want to cough again. He shoved the pizza box a bit closer to him with a small smile.

Eddy slowly reached into the box to grab a slice, he wasn't really hungry. How could he be? He was just doing this to see if it would make Brett a bit happier or help him pretend to be happy. This was a situation he had never expected to be in. No one in their right mind would expect it, but he wasn't considered in his right mind so he should have somehow foresaw this!

Brett took the first bite of his slice and chewed slowly. He could already feel that swallowing it would be a problem without coughing. He looked down at his slice. He just had to make it work without Eddy noticing. Eddy was already feeling bad enough about the whole thing, but he couldn't make himself be mad at him either. He probably should be mad, he did try to kill him after all.

Eddy watched Brett like a hawk, figuring that swallowing would be kinda hard with a possibly sore throat and the man's coughing fits, "Would you like me to get you another glass of water and painkillers?"

He was trying his best to be more helpful since sitting there eating pizza didn't seem like enough.

"I'm fine, Eddy," Brett smiled bravely, forcing himself to swallow and suppress the coughs as well as he could. Tears formed in the corners of his eyes, but he managed to keep the coughing at a minimum despite it being super uncomfortable.