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Tweak says, "I am your father"

Armaan Viraj Khatri (fallontheflame) wrote in nevermore_logs,
@ 2024-11-19 23:15:00

Entry tags:

aderyn ceredig, armaan khatri, avery duffield, henry claus, michael, patience, saint patrick

WHO: Armaan Khatri, Patience, Michael, Saint Patrick, Henry Ceredig, Avery Duffield
WHEN: Early hours of Saturday
WHERE: Hospital tiimmeesss
WHAT: Hospital tiimmeesss
WARNINGS: TBA

As soon as they reached the hospital, Armaan was whisked away for emergency surgery, and Freddie was left to wait in the waiting room for him. Soon enough though, he was joined by Patrick, who informed Freddie of the growing numbers of press outside the place. Michael arrived next, followed by Rhadika who had sped over as soon as she could. She had been so relieved when Detective Angel had called her, because she too had happened upon the live stream, and when she saw her baby on screen, bleeding out, she had spent a frantic fifteen minutes trying to find any way to contact Varaha and ask for his help.

She was just relieved, now that Armaan was in safe hands, that she hadn't managed to get ahold of him.

The moment she was in the waiting room, she made a beeline for Freddie. "Oh my darling Freddie," she said, moving to embrace him tightly. "You saved him, didn't you?"

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phantomtruth
2024-11-23 09:33 am UTC (link)

"No, uh, Henry and Aderyn came over..." Avery trailed off, his foot tapping and his knee jiggling again. He cleared his throat and shifted in his chair awkwardly, glancing at Patience who was looking away towards the door and doing his best not to make Avery feel watched.

"Listen, um... I- I'm sorry for acting like such a child when you wanted to move out," he said, looking down at his hands and sighing. "I know you were just wanting to live your life and I shouldn't have been a dick about it."

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fallontheflame
2024-11-23 09:38 am UTC (link)

"Aves," Armaan shook his head and he wanted to give Avery a hug, but he hardly thought his friend would appreciate that. "You weren't a dick. You were upset about things changing. I get it." He also kind of wanted to say 'and you'll miss living with me but you're too emotionally stunted to say that so you act out' but that was just rubbing salt in a wound. Even if it was true. "Is that what you were thinking about?"

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	phantomtruth 2024-11-23 10:00 am UTC (link)
	"I was a dick," Avery said firmly, because Armaan was trying to be nice but they should both at least be honest. "Yes, of course I've been thinking about it. You could've died and the last thing I'd have been to you was a dick. So I'm sorry." He glanced up to check Armaan's face and see if he looked surprised or annoyed or what. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fallontheflame
2024-11-23 10:04 am UTC (link)

Armaan was definitely not annoyed. He gave Avery a fond look and he said, "bro, you know you're always forgiven. It's not even a question. The only thing that's important is that you're my family. But thank you. For apologising. It means a lot," he said with a small smile. "It was dicey there for a few minutes. Not my favourite time ever. I feel terrible people had to see it."

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	phantomtruth 2024-11-23 10:22 am UTC (link)
	Avery grunted agreement. "Yeah it's shit, and it's like, invasive that everyone saw your toughest moments. I was so mad. Henry was trying not to look but. It was hard not to look cos we wanted to know what would happen. You know. Make sure you were alive." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fallontheflame 2024-11-23 10:25 am UTC (link)
	Armaan winced then and he said, "oh my god, did I say anything embarrassing?" He didn't exactly remember, and he wasn't sure if it was his brain protecting him from trauma, or just that he was high right now. He remembered it happening, of course, and he remembered being terrified, but the specifics were lost to him. "I honestly can't remember." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

phantomtruth
2024-11-23 10:40 am UTC (link)

"Uhhh... Nooo?" Avery didn't really remember Armaan saying anything stupid, but he was kind of more focused on the blood gushing out of the wound in his side. "Even if you did, I don't think anyone would've cared. Unless it was like, Say no to single use plastic! Is my fly open? Peace!" He pulled a face with his tongue out and two fingers up in a V by his face for a moment, and then quickly laughed it off.

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	fallontheflame 2024-11-23 10:43 am UTC (link)
	Armaan snorted and then laughed at Avery, before putting his hand on his abdomen because laughing hurt. "HAhaha, fuck, ow!" he said, still chuckling. "Well I probably didn't say any of that. And thank goodness! Aw man, laughing hurts! Worth it though." Armaan loved laughing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

phantomtruth
2024-11-23 11:26 am UTC (link)

Patience smiled softly, glad to hear it too. "I'm just going to pop out a minute," he murmured to Armaan, and left the room to go to the bathroom and give the friends some space.

Avery smirked. "Probably didn't," he agreed. He fell silent, not really sure what to say now. What should he say, when Armaan had endured so much? He definitely wasn't going to mention the shit with his dad, and in fact he intended to forget he ever did that as soon as he could. It was good to see Armaan smiling, though.

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	fallontheflame 2024-11-23 11:53 am UTC (link)
	Armaan watched Freddie go, and then he turned a little more towards Avery. "I wasn't scared at the beginning," he told his friend. "I knew Freddie would be coming, and I just had to wait, so I wasn't scared at all. Not until the end. I panicked he wouldn't get there in time, and it was awful. But he did. I should have known he would, you know?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

phantomtruth
2024-11-23 12:26 pm UTC (link)

Avery made a noise that was sort of agreeing, sort of not. "I dunno. Maybe. He's special but he ain't Superman. I mean- He's quite a lot human. You know?" He glanced over his shoulder to make sure Freddie wasn't about to step back into the room. "I mean that it's normal to be worried and have doubts. Shit, you were so wild the way you stayed silent the whole time til the end. I don't think I coulda done that." There was respect in his voice, impressed at how Armaan had handled himself.

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fallontheflame
2024-11-24 01:10 am UTC (link)

"He is quite human, isn't it?" Armaan said, smiling to himself. When Avery went on to compliment him though, Armaan sobered. The awe in the man's voice wasn't something Armaan was used to.

"I guess- I knew whatever I said wasn't going to change anything. I knew I just had to wait it out, you know? And it really freaked them out that I didn't ask any questions. It was just people. People being shitty. If it had been Lucifer? Different story, I would have lost my shit."

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	phantomtruth 2024-11-24 09:49 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah... well... I think most people would..." Avery still couldn't get his head around there being an actual Lucifer, but that was a mental struggle for another day. He shook his head. "Still, just taking it in silence? Absolutely insane." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fallontheflame 2024-11-24 09:51 am UTC (link)
	"So-" Armaan got a little glint in his eye then, and he said, "so you're saying I'm a badass then? Like an actual hard-as-nails hero, hmm? It's okay to worship me, bro. But don't sacrifice a goat or anything. Unless it's to make curry, yum." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	phantomtruth 2024-11-24 10:37 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, here we go." It seemed Armaan was getting a big head- but then, he deserved it. Avery could go along with it. "I'm not doing anything with a goat. You want that, you can do it yourself. I only sacrifice to the real deal. But... you are pretty badass." He could agree with that at least. He smirked, nudging Armaan's arm. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fallontheflame
2024-11-24 10:41 am UTC (link)

"Oh my god, I was joking," he laughed, and then he winced again, "owwww. I'm not a badass, I read the weather off a teleprompter and make puns while looking snazzy in a tie. Then I go home to my boyfriend and we read while sitting next to each other. Not like you. Risking your ass to investigate the gods and all. You're the badass. You know I think that, right?" It felt important to say, even if Avery was going to feel weird about it.

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phantomtruth
2024-11-24 11:22 am UTC (link)

"Agree to disagree," Avery replied. "I didn't take a punch without a peep. You did. I haven't had anything to do with gods in a couple of years, present company's boyfriend excepted. So there." He folded his arms and sat back a moment, then suddenly sat up again. "Hey, can I get the scoop on this? Will you give me an interview? When you're rested. It'd really give me a boost in the office. You think so?"

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fallontheflame
2024-11-24 11:26 am UTC (link)

Armaan grinned then, and he reached out to pat Avery's hand. "Of course you can, bro. Give me a day or two, but then the scoop is all yours."

Henry, who had been near the door for a moment or so, edged into the room. "The swarms of press outside will be so pissed off and I am here for it," he chuckled. "Also, just so you're both aware, you're both badasses, but if you keep trying to tell each other that, you're going to be here all night."

"Hey, Henry," Armaan smiled and he was happy when Henry hugged him.

"Hey yourself, man," Henry said, moving to lean against the wall. "Scared the shit out of us."

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	phantomtruth 2024-11-24 11:57 am UTC (link)
	"Nice. Thanks man." Armaan looked up at Henry, sitting back again. "So long as I get the first interview, they can get in line. We'll see who is a badass then." He'd needed a bit a professional lift. He'd felt like his articles had been getting a touch samey lately. "Yeah, things got a bit dicey back there." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fallontheflame
2024-11-24 12:02 pm UTC (link)

"Well I promise to try not to let it happen again?" Armaan said with a little shrug. "I can't imagine anyone is going to let me into a parking lot on my own at night for a little while."

"Signs point to a big old nope," Henry said, shaking his head. "Look, you or Freddie need anything in the next wee while, you know where we are. Even just a grocery delivery, okay? I got you. I seem to remember a soup delivery after I got out of the hospital."

Armaan chuckled and he nodded, "I spent an entire day making those soups!"

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phantomtruth
2024-11-24 01:04 pm UTC (link)

Avery was privately kind of glad to not have to endure a lake of soup again, even if he personally hadn't eaten much of it, although he'd been able to smell it for ages. Soup was a food he only sometimes had the taste for.

"The chances of the same thing happening again are pretty slim, I'd have thought," he commented. "So its up to you how safe you feel, not anybody else. You don't want to let it stop you living your life." He meant it encouragingly, however it came across, whether or not right now was time for that conversation.

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fallontheflame
2024-11-25 03:53 am UTC (link)

Armaan was pretty grateful for Avery's words, though he wasn't really going to know how he felt about all this until he was a few days away from it. Out of the shock and the opiate haze where right now all he felt was grateful and just a little bit euphoric.

Still, he nodded with a smile and said, "good point. Really good point. I'll keep it in mind. Honestly? I'm glad I didn't end up pissing myself on livestream, you know?" He'd been tied to a chair for hours, in a very stressful situation. It could have happened!

Henry, who had once been kept chained hanging from a ceiling for days and had, in fact, pissed himself, agreed. At least that hadn't been livestreamed! "Or shat yourself out of fear. Well done avoiding that!"

Armaan snorted and then he put a hand to his wound again, "ow ow, you guys suck."

"You're the one who brought it to toilet humour!" Henry pointed out.

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	phantomtruth 2024-11-26 09:51 am UTC (link)
	"People usually pay extra for that," Avery added with a smirk. "Don't give it out for free." He suppressed a yawn, starting to feel tired after all this excitement. But so long as Armaan was needing support, he would stay. "You're a D-list celebrity, you'd get your own page on Wiki-scat." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fallontheflame
2024-11-26 09:56 am UTC (link)

Armaan was laughing again, his hand on his abdomen because it was pulling his stitches. "Oh my god, ow hahaha!" he said, before shaking his head in amusement. "It's a good thing Freddie stepped out! Do not debase my Freddie's precious Christian ears with your scat talk!" he said.

Henry snorted, "you like to do all the debasing yourself, eyyyyy, eeyyYYY?" he laughed.

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	phantomtruth 2024-11-26 10:06 am UTC (link)
	Avery was snickering to himself, when he sensed movement and glanced towards the door behind Henry. Freddie had returned just at that moment and was standing in the doorway looking bemused. "I wouldn't like to say," he commented, and Avery almost choked on his own spit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)