"...did I say something wrong?"

"I wasn't going to eat you."

"No, I know, it's just, like - I wasn't speaking technically."

"I didn't even have my mouth open..."

"Okay! I couldn't see it."

"Sorry."

"Anyways."

"Mm-hm." Les Mis.

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Because it is a classic French novel Haru hasn't had time to read before!

Well eventually Julien will resnuggle.

Oh good. It is important for health reasons. Haru eats his KD with his free hand and reads.

This is sooooo booooring but it being so boring is hugely significantly better than it being torture, so he's not going to do anything to change it.

Eventually Cricket wakes up and awakens his computer and baps the spacebar and resumes his movie marathon. Julien can probably hear most of the dialogue from the couch if listening to the audio only of House episodes is an improvement.

It is except for how it's very very terrifying for Cricket to be awake and Julien to have constant sensory evidence of this.

Well, he's not doing anything about being awake, he's just lounging there watching House. Eventually he pauses mid-it-not-being-lupus and trots into the kitchen to serve himself fish; the kitchen has cat accommodations so he can do this.

Hhhhhhhhhhh.

Om nom nom fish. Then he goes to the bathroom and comes out again and resumes House.

Julien WANTS TO GO BACK TO WORK.  Things were FINE at work.  (Things were actually quite bad at work.)  But at least there were things to do and he could mostly rely on pretending things were normal and not looking at himself being The Things That Were Happening.  He has no idea what thing is happening here; he has no idea how to navigate this, and he has no task to distract him from wondering.  And no way to calibrate whether he's doing it correctly.

"Are you bored?" Haru asks eventually.

Oh no oh no oh no.  If he says yes then he's going to be tortured for his impertinence.  But if he says no, then, any reasonable person would be bored in this situation, it's going to blow his cover and they'll know, and they'll know he was lying -  "I... am awakening."

"I was bored, when I was awakening, sometimes, when I ran out of interesting things to talk about, which was frequently because I had to be talking every minute I was awake. Is there a form of entertainment you can presently tolerate?"