He is pretty sure he managed to hurt all those people in the Philippines without implements are they sure about this plan being enough?

They are pretty sure he will not be able to harm anyone in the Philippines from in this room.

Well presumably they are thinking about it a lot so he will trust them about it.

Haru gets there after about an hour, carrying Cricket in his arms (he had a bit of an argument about bringing Cricket but he'd need to sit with June for another two hours to not bring Cricket). "Lucien?"

"I'm really really sorry I don't know why you came since you hate me but I guess being far away doesn't make any difference I'm so sorry." He is hugging his knees about this real hard.

"They think you might be an esper," Haru says, "which -" He takes a step closer, and - "huh -"

So, it might not loom very large in Lucien's narrativization of what's going on right now, but something is dangerously wrong with him. Like the sense of doom that can signify the onset of a heart attack, all the brouhaha in his verbal brain is downstream of something being dangerously wrong, and when Haru's close enough, it's a little less dangerous, a little less wrong.

Haru takes two more steps and puts his hand on Lucien's forehead, as though checking for fever.

Hunger is the best seasoning. Water never tastes better than when you're so thirsty your throat opens to admit a quart of it in one long grateful shotgun draft. Relief is its own flavor of pleasure and Haru's hand on Lucien's head is the only reason human beings have ever had to touch each other, possibly the only reason human beings bother having physical forms at all, definitely the only important thing going on right this second as it sucks all the danger and all the wrong out of Lucien through his skin.

"..."

"...which you are, congratulations!"

Lucien is going to rub his face against the incredible hand a bit maybe.

"-that.... is that how I... did those things?"

"Did... what things?"

Why doesn't he know, Lucien has no right to this hand given what he's done.

"I....I killed all those people in the Phillipines. And destroyed billions of dollars of property."

And quietly: "If you want to take your hand away now you can do that I'm sorry I can't move away I just. I can't." 

"...no, keep my hand, it'll help."

Lucien is just going to rest his face for another second and...

"Um."

"Did I... actually not kill any people in the Philippines?"

"As far as I know you have never been to the Philippines at all, and you don't even get your powers till you're done awakening so you certainly didn't do it by magic."

"That... I'm not sure"... Lucien is going to lean in to Haru's extremely good hand a bit more. 

"The Philippines was on the TV and I know it has to do with me but I guess I don't know how?" he says hesitantly.

"Well, it'll be easier to figure out when you're not backlashed." He lets Cricket out of his other arm and provides a second hand.

Lucien is just going to sort of nuzzle the hands all friendly like for a minute.

"Do you maybe want me to check you out of the hospital and take you home? This actually goes faster proportional to skin contact."

"Uh, this hospital thought they were able to keep me from killing people again? Though uh. If I didn't kill people in the first place maybe that isn't necessary... And I guess they can keep watch on me at your place anyways?"

Lucien thinks about it for a moment. 

"I don't know if I'm competent to make decisions right now? Probably everyone has already noticed this."

"Well, that's true, but you still have feelings and if being out of the hospital scared you I wouldn't do it."

"I... really don't want to stop having your hands on me."

Hoo boy. "Backlash is like that. I'm not actually sure how this works while you're mid-awakening but if it feels like it's helping it's probably helping. Are you up for walking if I hold your hand or should I carry you?"

... Why is that such a hard question to answer.

"Walking works? I think."

"Alrighty, up you get." Haru brings him to the relevant powers that be to get him discharged.

Lucien apologizes to the powers that be for taking up all their time and also for preoccupying them so much though admittedly they had good reasons and it's not like everyone else isn't doing the same.

(Can he and Haru be more holding hands with him during this walk? How does that work?)