[He knows about Brian more than he maybe should, and yet - not enough. Not enough to really know the details of what happened to him. They met in the chaos of conflict and he learned, piecemeal, that Brian had lost every scrap of himself over time or maybe in one fell swoop, and left this shell of someone who was, even worse, still aware of his own empty nature.]
[Leaving someone who did not or could not speak, who had grown to used to living feral and alone and forgotten, who had never once considered that if he'd just asked for help that he would have gotten it. That there was so little, so goddamned little, that Tim would not have done to help his best friend.]
[But at that point, perhaps understandably, going to Tim for anything other than a stolen fistful of medication was off the table.]
[Until LifeAftr.]
I don't think it's the same kinda change here.
[He lifts his shoulders in an incremental shrug.]
You know I've never seen It since ending up somewhere else. Not once.
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[Leaving someone who did not or could not speak, who had grown to used to living feral and alone and forgotten, who had never once considered that if he'd just asked for help that he would have gotten it. That there was so little, so goddamned little, that Tim would not have done to help his best friend.]
[But at that point, perhaps understandably, going to Tim for anything other than a stolen fistful of medication was off the table.]
[Until LifeAftr.]
I don't think it's the same kinda change here.
[He lifts his shoulders in an incremental shrug.]
You know I've never seen It since ending up somewhere else. Not once.