He doesn't move.

The half of his face without burns looks peaceful, like he's sleeping.

please, no 

He leans down and kisses Ben, one last desperate time, holds him tight, and — 

And Ben's eyes blink open and he says, "what just happened?"

He pulls away just enough to look at Ben's face and — he's okay, how is he okay — hugs him tight again. 

"Last thing I remember I was falling."

"You —" and his voice breaks. "You fell into a pile of gold, it turned into lava, you were dead —"

Ben looks at him for a moment and then starts kissing him.

Chen is crying as he kisses him back. 

He tries to say something into Chen's mouth, fails, pulls away, and says, "you love me."

"Of course I love you — Ben, you're okay —" 

"I'm okay because of you!"

Maybe he should kiss Ben again. How about that. 

He should absolutely kiss Ben again!

"...But I can't love you."

"— why?" 

"Same reason I couldn't love Audrey."

"Which is what?" 

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."

"....Ben, I do that too. Not the getting possessed but — all the rest." 

"...oh. And you love me."

"And I love you." 

He lets go of Ben to wipe the tear tracks off his face and then kisses him again. 

"You're my one true love!"

"And you're mine — I love you I love you I was so scared —" 

"I bet you were-- I never want to scare you like that again--"

"I love you! But —" kiss, "maybe we should," kiss, "be doing this in Auradon City," kiss, "and not in the middle of the desert —"