#geto-centric

would it kill you?

3k • teen • satosugu • part 6: June

When Suguru gets into the bath, he makes sure to do so as disagreeably as possible. “Okay. I’m in. Happy?” “Not with that attitude.” Satoru pops the top on a shampoo bottle and sniffs it, refusing to acknowledge their standoff. Childish. Infuriating. Satoru sits down on a low stool by the head of the tub and that’s the last straw. “You can leave now,” Suguru growls over his shoulder. “Well, then who is gonna wash the guts out of your hair?” Suguru falters. There isn’t gore on his person— in his hair or otherwise. Even if it feels like there is. Even if he feels marked by it, he knows he isn’t. It isn’t real.

Satoru takes care of a stubborn Suguru after a bad mission, and asks him why he doesn’t just… stop swallowing curses.

(Set in June 2006, 2 months before the Star Plasma Vessel incident. Series part 6 of 12.)

eating, starving

3k • teen • satosugu • part 4: April

“What’s it like, swallowing curses?” Suguru doesn’t answer at first. He doesn’t really want to think about it, but Satoru isn’t that easy to shake. “My technique? You’ve seen it.” “Well, sure, but there’s a lot I can’t see.” Suguru sighs. When he shakes his head, the whisper-fine tips of Satoru’s hair tickle his jaw. “That’s a landmark confession, coming from you.” “Is it?” Satoru snorts like a heathen. He’s so unserious. That alone is enough to dredge up a smile, somehow, with no regard for Suguru’s sour mood. He feels toyed with when that happens. Satoru is a little too good at getting what he wants. “I mean, what is it like for you?” Suguru hasn’t ever tried to explain it. It’s second-nature, really. But he’s picturing it now, feels it coming up like a bad breakfast, this force he can’t resist. He’s picturing it, so he may as well try and find the words. “There’s this… pull.”

Suguru consumes curses for a living and pretends it doesn’t keep him up at night. Satoru knows that it does and tries his best to help.

(Set in April 2006, 4 months before the Star Plasma Vessel incident. Series part 4 of 12.)