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Taking the hit with an off, Halle didn't bother hitting back. Yet. Instead he was closing the gap and grabbing both sides of Lisse's face, turning it this way and that to get a better look at the damage. "Who did it?" He asked wheezed grimly and then immediately let go with a shake of his head. "Yeah actually, no, nevermind that for now, first of all: why are you like this?!"

His voice was both exasperated and utterly helpless in the face of his brother, near tears and miserable. "You got beat up but you're stilling coming out like this? What are you doing? Are you looking for another person to beat you up? Or even better, kill you?!"

"I was angry because," Halle realized he was nearly shouting and lowered his voice, wrapping his arms around his crybaby of a brother. "I just want you to take things seriously. I want you to either train to be stronger or be more careful so you don't have to," his own voice was growing thick now.

"I've missed you too, but I get so mad thinking that I might have to miss you forever if you die. Or I die. Or we both do. I can't stop thinking about it, all the ways you might get hurt or worse and thinking about what I can do to stop it. I can't stop thinking about death, and what would mom do without us and I think it'd be best if I died first but maybe that'd just make things worse? I don't want either of us dying and now Lena is in it too and how do we look out for her when we're over here and she's Lena and..."

Okay he was crying now too.

"And that stupid gameboard made me so weird and violent and itchy for days! I beat up a girl! It was horrible!"

Halle didn't bother to wipe his face since he was firm in pretending he had never cried in his life. "This is real life, dumba....dummy." It was said quietly, though, even a little whiny.

Taking a deep breath, he explained, "It was a spar, I kicked her too hard and...I had to take her to the doctor. There was blood." His face crumpled a little, remembering that Lisse had just been beaten up by some lady. They were definitely going to have to get used to fighting girls and that was also kind of awful, wasn't it? He thought about his childhood resolution to protect his mom, and his brother, and grow up to be a good man and was very nearly crying again.

"You don't have to go out alone anymore, okay? I won't beat you up." Squaring his shoulders, Halle delivered an absolutely serious, bruising punch to Lisse's arm. "Anymore than that." And then he was hugging his snotty brother again.

Halle was not a crybaby because he didn't cry. Still, he powered down as well, pulling a bandana out of his back pocket to wipe off his...sweat, in an attempt to be presentable to the late night public. "Is there any place even open? Outside of like, 7-eleven?"