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He was happy, when it happened, but now?
He felt like he couldn’t breath. He felt like the lightning that had struck him down still ran through his veins. Why couldn’t he breath?
“Hey, hey, it’s ok,” there is a hand on his arm and he flinches. Touch is bad, touch is dangerous, but it doesn’t leave, “You don’t have to worry, you’re safe.”
Scott finally manages to peel his eyes open, finding Grian in front of him, smiling softly at him. The hand on his arm travels down, gathering Scott’s shaking fingers in his own.
“Come on Scott, deep breaths for me,” Grian’s voice is incredibly gentle, soft, there is no expectations, just a desire to help, “There we go, that’s it, keep breathing for me.”
Scott isn’t too sure how long they spend there, with Grian just hold his hand and whispering reassurances before he finally felt like he could breath properly and let his eyes look around.
It was a rather empty room, sage green walls and spruce accents, two beds pressed together, a table with a lamp. As far as rooms went, there wasn’t much too it, but he found that soothing. There was nothing dangerous, nothing lurking around a corner to cause him harm.
“Where-” Scott’s voice broke, causing him to stop and clear his throat before trying again, “Where are we? What’s going on.”
“I called it the break room,” Grian replies, hands still holding Scott’s, which he is thankful for, the shaking having yet to stop, “They had sent me here after the first games to let me calm down, and it seems they’ve sent us both here this time.”
Scott remembered that now. How after the first games had ended, Grian hadn’t spawned in with everyone else immediately into the holding world, when he had, he was quiet about where he had gone. Someone had teased him about having gotten a ceremony of some sort for winning, and when Grian hadn’t disagreed everyone had just assumed that was the case.
Now Scott could just imagine him, alone in this room, trying to pull himself together after winning.
Scott couldn’t imagine having to do it alone.
Scott bowed his head forward, resting it on Grian’s chest, breathing in time with him.
“However long you need. Time is a little different here.”
He’ll question that later, when the shaking subsides and the excitement from win comes back some, but for now he just breaths and works on calming his shaking limbs.