Oh, [ Jaime says. It's all he says for a moment, and his voice is very, very small. This shouldn't be how it goes. This wasn't what he was expecting. And it's stupid to feel like he'd suddenly been punched in the gut when this is something that's good, that should be exciting, that his Tadashi is here in front of him, alive again, that he remembers, but for a second, he seems to forget how to breathe. Jaime's always been in tune with his emotions - or so he says, anyway - but it's almost too much to comprehend in the moment, and certainly more than he'd ever hoped for. This is something he'd wanted for so long, for years, setting up those memorials and that little space that's just for Tadashi, and now -- he's here? Just like that?
It's funny that you can want something for so long and have no idea what to say when it finally comes true. Something similar had happened with Yusuke, but Yusuke wasn't gone for as long, Yusuke wasn't replaced by a stranger, Yusuke wasn't dead. And more than that, everything Tadashi's saying is bringing up memories of what seems to belong to another life, people he had loved and lost, the times that they've had that he's had to repress just so he can continue on without them in his life anymore. ]
I didn't think - it was gonna be you, I --
[ There's nothing to be said. So he goes in for the hug, of course, wrapping his arms around Tadashi's broad shoulders even if he has to stand a little on his tippy toes to do it - tall jerk - and heck, it's a lot easier than anything else he could say as long as he doesn't start leaking all over his shoulder. ]
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It's funny that you can want something for so long and have no idea what to say when it finally comes true. Something similar had happened with Yusuke, but Yusuke wasn't gone for as long, Yusuke wasn't replaced by a stranger, Yusuke wasn't dead. And more than that, everything Tadashi's saying is bringing up memories of what seems to belong to another life, people he had loved and lost, the times that they've had that he's had to repress just so he can continue on without them in his life anymore. ]
I didn't think - it was gonna be you, I --
[ There's nothing to be said. So he goes in for the hug, of course, wrapping his arms around Tadashi's broad shoulders even if he has to stand a little on his tippy toes to do it - tall jerk - and heck, it's a lot easier than anything else he could say as long as he doesn't start leaking all over his shoulder. ]