Klaus watches while Ben takes the sweater and pulls it on over his head, a little uncoordinated, and pulls it down over his lifted knees. He's shivering, he looks so damn small as he sits there wrapped up in Klaus' sweater with that confused look on his face. When Ben wriggles toward him, Klaus moves in closer and pulls Ben into his arms, wraps them around his shoulders and starts scrubbing his hands up and down Ben's legs, trying to generate heat.
Trying to really understand that Ben is alive.
"Okay. Okay, we can get that figured out. Five can help maybe. I don't know. But for now...okay, okay okay...right now we have to get you upstairs and in a bath. You're freezing. You can't...you can't come back to life and get sick right away."
And then Klaus starts shaking. It isn't the cold, it's the fact that Ben is in his arms and he's squeezing him tight around his shoulders and Ben is shivering and there's no use of Klaus' unreliable pathetic awful powers to make him corporeal. He's alive.
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Date: 2019-05-02 04:44 am (UTC)Trying to really understand that Ben is alive.
"Okay. Okay, we can get that figured out. Five can help maybe. I don't know. But for now...okay, okay okay...right now we have to get you upstairs and in a bath. You're freezing. You can't...you can't come back to life and get sick right away."
And then Klaus starts shaking. It isn't the cold, it's the fact that Ben is in his arms and he's squeezing him tight around his shoulders and Ben is shivering and there's no use of Klaus' unreliable pathetic awful powers to make him corporeal. He's alive.
"You think you can walk?"