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[notleavingquietly]

You will be but you aren't. Come here.

[guylining]

i'm not good company.

[notleavingquietly]

If that means you don't want company, fine.
If it means you don't want my company, also fine. If it literally means you think you're bad company - neither am I, and don't recognize it when I see it.

[ Why are humans hard? ]

[guylining]

i AM bad company rn

i'm spending like every waking minute researching a way to open that door

[notleavingquietly]

Then you need to stop, drink, eat, and sleep for at least an hour

[ This is a terrible idea Nate. ]

[guylining]

yeah
but i don't want to
i want nick back.

[notleavingquietly]

And I want to not watch you destroy yourself.
One of these is more immediately achievable than the other.

Do you remember me talking to you about what I would do if Cy disappeared?

[guylining]

yeah you'd go to bashir

[notleavingquietly]

No, that's the practical plan. Not the plan, my reaction.

[guylining]

tell me again

[notleavingquietly]

The upshot of it is that I would absolutely burn myself and life to the ground.

You didn't like the idea.

It's what you're doing.

I don't like watching it.

[guylining]

[ He wouldn't like that, it's true.

And also. Not wrong. ]

i have to get him back, crais
if i don't i'll never see him again and i can't accept that

[notleavingquietly]

Then don't.

But don't self-destruct, either.

[guylining]

i'm not

[ He is. ]

i just need him
and i know i can find a way
it'll be in one of these books, or someone here will know

[notleavingquietly]

You are.

If it's in a book, it will still be in a book.

If someone knows, you'd better be good company.

Time doesn't move normally here and if I recall Nick wasn't human.

Stop hurting yourself and other people around you.

[guylining]

he didn't want to go home, crais
not any more than i do

[notleavingquietly]

I understand.

I'm not telling you to give up.

I'm telling you to breake, breathe, eat, and take a nap.

[ He also doesn't want to go home and the idea breaks his heart - not that he'll admit that.]

[guylining]

[ It takes him a minute, but: ]

okay.
i guess it couldn't hurt
for a while.

[notleavingquietly]

Thank you.