Gris & Dwayne's Voretober 2022: Rage (Day 10)

Previous Chapter: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49338874/ or https://aryion.com/g4/view/829377

This is another big one.  Content Warning ahead.

(P.S. The thumbnail art is by Seviene!)

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Content Advisory: This is another heavy chapter, Here, Gris reveals that he feels that his trauma makes him a burden, and because the people he loves always leaves him over it, he expects Dwayne to do the same.

 

Gris couldn’t take it anymore, and he sat up, putting the mug down and letting go of Dwayne’s hand.  “I know you’re mad at me,” he mumbled.

“What?”  The wolf’s eyes widened in surprise.  “Why would I be mad at you?”

“B-Because,” the human stammered, “whenever I try to talk about this stuff, people get mad at me.  My mom was like that all the time.  People always react that way—they get angry and enraged.”  He laughed.  “You have every reason to be mad—I know that I completely ruined our scene.  So you don’t have to hide it, ok?  You can be honest.”

Dwayne shook his head.  “Babe, you got it wrong,” he replied.  “I’m not mad at you at all.”

“That can’t be true,” Gris muttered.

“Why—”

“Come /on/!” the human shouted.  He felt his anxiety increasing, and as he started to spiral, some of the thoughts fueling his turmoil spilled out of his mouth.  “I don’t talk about this stuff because it’s always weighed down the people I love.  B-Because it makes me a burden.  And when I weigh people down too much, then I’m not worth having around anymore, and so they leave me.”  Tears streamed down his cheeks.  “I told you I didn’t want to talk about what happened last week because I was scared you’d finally see how much of a burden I am.  And now you have.  So be as mad as you need to be.  Because I know how this ends, Dwayne.  It always ends the same.”

He turned away, unable to look the wolf in the eye, and waited for the inevitable to occur.