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[littleorphanalien]

It's been a rough week.

Michael's not back to the same state he was in a year ago after he'd been kidnapped, but he's still spending a lot more time in bed than awake. Magnus is gone and that's fine, it's whatever. He's been abandoned so many times before and it's not like they were best friends. It's just that Magnus helped him recover memories of his mother. He helped him create a plan for his hand, for kids in the future. He even found the doctor for him.

He hasn't really had someone like that in his life that he trusts outside of Alex and Caleb, and now he's just, he's gone. Asshole.

So he's been sulking, and yeah, he gets up to make sure breakfast is made and Luke gets to school, but then he goes back to bed instead of fiddling with the drones. He knows Alex is going to call him on it, probably soon, but it's like there's a thundercloud over his head that he can't escape, and it's just weighing him down and exhausting him.

He misses Magnus, and he's not sure what to do about it, other than curl up in bed with a book, trying to read the feelings away.

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[unendurable]

Alex has found himself caught between wanting to do whatever he can for Michael, to let him get through his recovery and his withdrawals and all that he's been through in the last year. He's had it so rough, and Alex isn't sure what to do for Michael but to be there for him, to keep the house running, and work on keeping their life on path. Bills paid. Projects taken on. Programs written.

Then Magnus was gone, and it was just another thing on Michael's shoulders and Alex hates it. He hates that he had become so close to the warlock and just like that he's gone. And the worst part is, that it just reminds Alex how easily it could happen to them. One of them could vanish. Luke could disappear and go back to that family, to a future that they know about and that hurts so much.

But for now, he can't let himself focus on that. He needs to be there for Michael.

Texting off from an interview he head, he heads into the bedroom and stretches out on the bed next to Michael. He doesn't say anything, giving him a chance to at least acknowledge him and hoping Michael won't pretend he's not there.