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Chen doesn't actually like tourney. Never has, probably never will. He joined the team mostly because he didn't know how to tell their coach no and he stayed —
Well, he stayed for a lot of reasons, but mostly he stayed because of Ben.
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— no —
He pulls Ben — Ben's body — think about that later get them out now — up and runs.
The lava seems less invested in killing him personally!
It also radiates weirdly little heat. Possibly because it is magic lava.
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Guess what he is not paying attention to right now.
Once they're outside he drops to the ground and — please please Ben please no — checks for a pulse.
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no no no no NO Ben please ben no I —
he collects Ben, Ben's body, no, and — doesn't stand up just yet, he'll have to at some point but right now he's —
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please, no
He leans down and kisses Ben, one last desperate time, holds him tight, and —
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He pulls away just enough to look at Ben's face and — he's okay, how is he okay — hugs him tight again.
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"You —" and his voice breaks. "You fell into a pile of gold, it turned into lava, you were dead —"
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He tries to say something into Chen's mouth, fails, pulls away, and says, "you love me."
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He doesn't want to say.
But-- Chen loves him. It has been magically proven. Chen deserves to know.
"Well, I thought I couldn't because I felt the same things for guys and girls, but apparently you can really love someone even if you're both guys. But also-- when I have a crush on someone I don't think about normal things, I think about-- what if they were possessed by someone and then they hurt me, or a villain forced them to torture me, or they had to kiss me or they'd be punished-- and I like thinking about that."
