"Your backlash won't get any worse while I've got you."

"But I can still have an unpleasant time depending on what I end up thinking about, right?" Though admittedly the incredibly very good Haru chest makes everything better. 

... Also he is apparently having feelings about Haru saying he's got Lucien, which. Sounds like a thing to think about later and not now.

"Yes. If you want to avoid a post for that reason that's fine. They'll all still be there next week." so will Haru's - next!!!! week!!!!!!!

"Having to wait a week is sort of frustrating." says Lucien totally referring to the blog posts and not to Haru's abs.

"Yeah. Awakening sucks. You never have to let it get this bad again."

Nod nod.

Lucien skips the entries which are maybe about him, jotting them down so he knows to get back to them, and reads the remaining half of the entries in as close to one sitting as he can manage, occasionally asking Haru for additional details or clarifications.

Haru, occasionally singing inaudibly to rack up a little bit of tolerable backlash so he can pull Lucien's down more effectively, can answer these questions, and write a few of them down for followup post ideas.

It's not the worst way to spend a day! Lucien sleeps much better that night, if not perfectly. The night after that he sleep possibly too well and has to run to the bathroom to change underwear about it which is not actually anywhere near the worst thing that's happened during his awakening but in the moment feels like it must be.

We're pretending that never happened, okay.

Lucien would really rather take care of things when he is awake so this definitely won't happen but it turns out he only wants to think about boys which is apparently a homosexual thing for him to do now, and also Haru is definitely aware of what is going with Lucien at all times which does not help at all.

Haru is going to the bathroom a normal amount. For normal amounts of time. And if anybody would have been going to hear him instead they won't!

This does not occur to Lucien, who is surely the only person who can get this horny.

It is a very something week, full of the world revolving around a helpless Lucien, Haru's amazing torso, and many moments which Lucien does his very best not to think about.

It's frustrating and tedious and tantalizing and exhausting and he already bought his mother a house and his dad a boat but maybe they will think of something else if he reiterates that he is really very much indebted for them coping with his awakening. The damn things last a week. What the fuck.

"Should be coming out of it any minute now," he tells Lucien, when it's been seven days. "Some variance on duration."

"How long does it take to recede?"

"Hour, tops, once it gets going."

Lucien would like to cling to Haru while this happens apparently, waiting for things to go back to norm-well not normal, it's too late for that. But at least back to a state where he can make progress on dealing with the events of the last week.

Yeah. Haru can be clung to for another hour.

Lucien is pretty sure he's recovered early in the hour, but waits till the end to be sure.

"Um. I think I should probably go and put my brain back in order now and should be alone to do that."

"Absolutely. Guest room's all yours." Haru will go hide in his own room, he's running an introvert deficit.

Lucien is going to take multiple hours to do this, emerging only to get a laptop.

He doesn't run into Haru then, though he can catch Cricket coming in through an open window.

Lucien does not really anything to say to Cricket until he has put his brain in order, possibly afterwards he will need to apologize.

Cricket doesn't demand an apology, just goes and washes pigeon gore off his face.

He appreciates the degree to which Cricket's whole deal can have nothing to do with Lucien. 

Eventually it is evening and Lucien is finished getting his mind in order.