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[notpiercings]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, HOLYDIVER. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 346.47.668.65 *** HOLYDIVER has joined 346.47.668.65 <HOLYDIVER> Is this thing on? <HOLYDIVER> The display appears to be working... <HOLYDIVER> Are these going to stay here? <HOLYDIVER> How do I delete these? <HOLYDIVER> Wait <HOLYDIVER> shit <HOLYDIVER> fuck

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[notpiercings]

Got Jonathan to stand, sure, but at what cost? Had it been worth all the remarks, all the painful memories dredged up from where they should have remained to die? Had it been worth that invasion of privacy? Had it been anything more than a forceful assertion of Dio's own feelings when it was Jonathan's that were most important?

He had gotten Jonathan to stand, but wouldn't he have been just as well sitting? Spending the day in his own way, as he had every right to?

Dio says nothing. How JoJo regards his words isn't important, and it never will be. He had still ferried more conflict to their humble home and left them with the burden of festering anger - if not Jonathan directly then Speedwagon, whom Jonathan will have to deal with. He still failed. He still made things worse.

He's quiet for a long time, lost in his own thoughts, until finally...

"...thank you for the kind words. I do appreciate them."

[soft_focus]

Quiet is important, Reira thinks. Sometimes you just need things to be quiet after all, even if the only thing happening in the end is feeling a bit worse.

"...They're true words, after all," is what Reira eventually says. And in the quiet, softly-

"...Do you just want to sit for a while? ...Like this, I mean?"

[notpiercings]

Despite the moment he takes to consider it, in his heart Dio wants nothing more than to jump at the offer, but he refrains from letting that 'yes' leave his lips. Maybe... there's something better he can say instead.

"...is that okay?"

[soft_focus]

Reira is quiet for a moment. And-

"Yeah."

They'll sit there for as long as they can.