[ Werewolf. It had sounded too stupid in his head to even risk saying out loud. But now that Nate has, it's too obvious to deny. He nods slowly, trying to wrap his mind around the idea. Accept it. Daryl had turned into a fucking werewolf.
And then the unspoken question: if that's what happens to Daryl, what will Jesse turn into, when it inevitably happens to him?
He's still thinking about that, focused on the current horror they're all dealing with. And so Nate's question, the sudden change of subject, catches him off guard. He looks up, startled, his eyes wide and, for a moment, terribly vulnerable. Remembering a picture, pinned to a pole. An implied threat that had become all too real. A silenced gunshot and Andrea's body crumpling lifelessly to the ground, while Jesse screamed and screamed to no avail, bound and gagged in a van across the street -
He looks down quickly, staring at his plate, his vision blurry with tears. ]
cw murder, trauma
[ Werewolf. It had sounded too stupid in his head to even risk saying out loud. But now that Nate has, it's too obvious to deny. He nods slowly, trying to wrap his mind around the idea. Accept it. Daryl had turned into a fucking werewolf.
And then the unspoken question: if that's what happens to Daryl, what will Jesse turn into, when it inevitably happens to him?
He's still thinking about that, focused on the current horror they're all dealing with. And so Nate's question, the sudden change of subject, catches him off guard. He looks up, startled, his eyes wide and, for a moment, terribly vulnerable. Remembering a picture, pinned to a pole. An implied threat that had become all too real. A silenced gunshot and Andrea's body crumpling lifelessly to the ground, while Jesse screamed and screamed to no avail, bound and gagged in a van across the street -
He looks down quickly, staring at his plate, his vision blurry with tears. ]
Nah.
No one's waiting.