"I think yes but maybe not while we're on the street."

"Sure, you say when."

Map check, another turn, and there they are at the clinic to get Haru's arm un-dressed and looked at and re-dressed, and if anyone is concerned about why Haru needs an emotional support handhold they don't ask about it aloud.

It's probably already obvious to them anyway.  Because of his eyes.  ...Probably there simply do exist regular people with his skin and eye color combination.  Or at least what it was however many hours ago when he last looked.  Maybe he should tell them.  But he doesn't want to distract anyone from giving Haru medical care, or Haru from receiving it...  How is the bite?  Is it bad?  Can he look at it?

He can look at it. There are pretty clear teeth marks and a couple of the canines made serious puncture wounds but the urgent care guy thinks that it was cleaned quick enough and doesn't look like it's infected, yay for esper immune systems, thank you for your service, here is more goop and bandages on the bite and instructions for re-dressing at home.

Julien pays such close attention.  Maybe he can help with it and maybe that will be good for his backlash, except maybe it's too important for him to be playing doctor with and he'll mess it up and Haru's arm will get so fucked up.  But on the other hand maybe it's not that serious and later he will encounter something serious and he'll mess that up because he missed out on practice.  He'll make Haru decide for him, which is kind of a dick move but it's better than having something horrible happen.

And then they can walk back to Haru's house.

Julien feels pretty physically tired by the end and wants Haru to slow down a bit.  Obviously he can't ask him to carry him because arm.

Is he sure about that, Haru carried him a bit last night!

Seems pretty obvious.  Haru's wounded??  And Julien's very tired.

"I think I'm going to want a nap when we get back home."  - Wait.  Aaaa.  "I mean inside.  ...Home is relative.  I meant it... relatively."

"With me or without me?"

"...I'm not Bug?  - But it seems up to you."

"I know you're not, just, calls for different logistics so I checked. I'll want to get some lunch put together and grab a new book and whatnot if I'm going to be underpinning a nap."

"....I think I do feel markedly worse than after we've been more-than-holding-hands for a bit."  And better than when there isn't any guiding at all.  Obviously.  It's obvious, it goes without saying.

"Okay. I can be snuggly. Good thing my hobby is reading, it's very portable."

"I could hang onto someone who was into running or something but it would probably be a lot worse for both of us."

"Yeah, I think it would work poorly."

Maybe Julien should try smiling ever if he wants his bad dumb not-quite-jokes to go over, but also, he doesn't feel like it.  It's not even that he's worried about a little bit of happiness turning into fawning at reality, now that it's been a few days and that hasn't really seemed likely to re-emerge as a problem - at least not while he's being guided - but.  He just doesn't feel up to it.  Maybe after the nap.  Walk walk.

And back to Haru's house, where he makes himself a couple sandwiches and grabs a bag of chips and a glass of water to put by the couch, and hits the bathroom, and then comes back with a copy of Candide, to be a nap surface.

Julien would maybe prefer the bed but then Haru wouldn't be able to eat chips so he's definitely not going to say anything.  He does change back into pajama pants, though.

He does a lot of half waking up and stirring a bit, but it's about two hours before he sits all the way up and stretches out.

By that time Haru's lunch is gone and he's a ways into Candide. "Hey, sleepyhead."

"Yeahh.  ...What day is it?  Is it still - we came back from the clinic??"

"It's only been a couple hours, it's still the same day."

"Oookay."  If Haru's lunch is gone then presumably Julien will have room to lie back down, roll over, and hug Haru around the waist.  And maybe kind of curl up around him.

Sure. Snuggle snuggle.

......He opens his eyes.

"Is this sexually harassing you?"