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[No! He doesn't feel like kissing much, either. This memshare is killing his chances of getting laid for his prison heroism, but honestly. He doesn't feel cool and heroic for any of this. It hurts. Even though he's experienced this memory now multiple times, with multiple people, none of them have exactly gotten the heartbreak. Which is right - what's happening to pizza guy is much worse than what's happening to him - but it also feels lonely.

He curls against Lio, protective, holding him close and resting a hand on his hair. He's sniffling, but this pain isn't fresh or new anymore, and he's steady.]

I know, I know. But we'll stop it.

[He genuinely cannot respond in words for a long while, but the protectiveness, the hand on his hair. It helps. It's grounding. He doesn't feel quite so alone in his grief for all of the Burnish as he did. It doesn't feel as insurmountable with Galo there too. Knowing his heart is broken too.]

[He's fine being quiet and sad for a long time. Finally, he just says - ]

Sorry, Lio.

[He's not even sure what he's apologizing for. Having this awful memory hit him like a train, maybe? Forgetting to tell him any of this? Or maybe the whole terrible situation, and his own role in it, no matter how small.]

[He really did just own himself completely out of getting laid for being arrested like a cool guy. Wow.

Anyway, once the shook fades, Lio seems to recover some - mostly the shock of it got to him very badly. He shakes his head, reaching up to hold Galo's face in one hand.]

You don't-- It's alright.

It's really not.

[Looking back into his eyes, soft.]

I was going to tell you about it. . . [But Lio seemed afraid to learn what he knew, so he never pushed it.]

[Much less soft! Though maybe the hardness isn't directed at Galo, necessarily. More that he's steeled himself again, determining a course of action. He was afraid before. He didn't want to know Kray's reasons, his so-called motives. He knew it wouldn't feel better to know, that it wouldn't explain or make anything better. And he was right. It didn't. But what this memory did show him is that someone else is on his side as well, even at the cost of his entire world view and that seems worth knowing.]

Promise me. If something happens to me, you'll help them.

Of course. Of course I promise.

[He can promise that first, before anything else. He knows Lio needs to hear that more than anything else he can say, needs to know he takes it seriously enough that it comes before any bravado. But.]

But I won't let anything happen to you.

[He did need to hear that. But, he also sort of needed to hear the other part too? That's the part of Galo that he likes so much. That determination. He wouldn't be Galo without it. He feels safe, right here, like Galo's brave promises can actually protect against anything terrible happening.]

. . . I'm sorry too. About what he did to you.

Tch.

[Lio's words hit him straight in his heart. It still knocks him over every time Lio has kindness to spare for him, despite how much of himself Lio has already given away to others. Despite how much pain it clearly causes Lio, taking on the pain of so many people.

But he tries to steel himself and not let himself be too affected. Because - ]

That's nothing. That's the least of what he's done.

[ He’ll burn himself back to ash for the sake of others, but it’s different, with Galo. It doesn’t feel like lighting himself on fire to care about him. Or, if it does, it’s in the comforting way of the Burnish flames, protective and safe. Moving now to wind his arms over Galo’s shoulders, cling a little closer. ]

He used you, like he used me. I’ll make him pay. We will make him pay.

[He doesn't know what to say to that, besides kissing him fiercely.]

[He's talking about killing a man, Galo! Don't reward him! But it is killing a man for you. Which is supposed to be romantic, so, it's fine. Maybe. The absolute pingpong of emotions he's been through today is honestly exhausting, though all of this just has gotten his adrenaline going again - pushing Galo over onto his back to just keeping smooching.]

[He didn't say kill, he said pay! Galo doesn't interpret that as kill! He just interprets that to mean Lio wants to fight for him, and god he needs to feel like someone wants to fight for him. Lio has enough reasons to hate Kray. He didn't have to make Galo a reason, but he is. There's basically nothing more romantic.

He wants to kiss, too, especially when this is no longer Lio horny for him going to jail, and is instead the mutual recognition that they're in this together, no matter what.]

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