If that were true, you would have stayed with the Wreckers.
[Perceptor shakes his head, instantly wishing that he could unsay those words. He hadn't meant it to sound like that. Perhaps he had, just a little, deep down in the painfully tight ball of agony in his chest, wanted to hurt Drift back, but not really. Really not really.]
If that were true.... [Try that again...] you would have stayed trapped like the rest of us. [That's... that's better, right?]
[He just nods to the rest. Perceptor knows that he'll hate Wing. He's not good enough, decent enough to be able to not hate him. But Wing also saved Drift, and Drift loves Wing, and Perceptor cannot hurt Drift by hating that which he loves.]
[He's absently rubbing at his chest again.]
Engex sounds good.
[Maybe something harder than engex. Something that makes it too hard to think and feel anymore.]
[action]
[Perceptor shakes his head, instantly wishing that he could unsay those words. He hadn't meant it to sound like that. Perhaps he had, just a little, deep down in the painfully tight ball of agony in his chest, wanted to hurt Drift back, but not really. Really not really.]
If that were true.... [Try that again...] you would have stayed trapped like the rest of us. [That's... that's better, right?]
[He just nods to the rest. Perceptor knows that he'll hate Wing. He's not good enough, decent enough to be able to not hate him. But Wing also saved Drift, and Drift loves Wing, and Perceptor cannot hurt Drift by hating that which he loves.]
[He's absently rubbing at his chest again.]
Engex sounds good.
[Maybe something harder than engex. Something that makes it too hard to think and feel anymore.]