[ Ben's never been the best at accepting and internalizing that he shouldn't blame himself for things that aren't his fault. Hadn't he been blaming himself all these years, for all the bad things that have happened to Klaus, because he couldn't stop them? And earlier, for all the violent things he had done, because it was what was expected of him? So when Klaus says it wasn't his fault, Ben just gives a little jerk of his head, clench-jawed and silent. Klaus had been alone. Twice now - Vietnam, now Hadriel - Klaus had been on his own without even Ben to whisper to him that it was going to be okay, he just needed to keep breathing.
Ben wipes a hand down his face, composing himself even as he steps aside so that Klaus can settle on one of the cots in the medbay. There is a little closet nearby, and Ben goes to it almost automatically, pulling down an extra pillow and blanket and bringing them over. The room is air conditioned and he knows that Klaus gets cold sometimes. Then it dawns on him he can feel the cold of the air, and a shiver runs through him because all those physical sensations really are overwhelming if he lets himself think about them for even a moment.
He is just laying out the extra blanket when the bot comes in with, presumably, the antibiotics it had said it was preparing. Ben tenses, remains so until the bot is whirring its way out of the room again, perhaps from some kind of privacy or patient care protocol which told it not to linger in this room. ]
You should - get some rest. I can look around and find us a safer place to crash. Shouldn't take too long. This place seems pretty deserted. Doubt I'm gonna have a hard time finding space.
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Ben wipes a hand down his face, composing himself even as he steps aside so that Klaus can settle on one of the cots in the medbay. There is a little closet nearby, and Ben goes to it almost automatically, pulling down an extra pillow and blanket and bringing them over. The room is air conditioned and he knows that Klaus gets cold sometimes. Then it dawns on him he can feel the cold of the air, and a shiver runs through him because all those physical sensations really are overwhelming if he lets himself think about them for even a moment.
He is just laying out the extra blanket when the bot comes in with, presumably, the antibiotics it had said it was preparing. Ben tenses, remains so until the bot is whirring its way out of the room again, perhaps from some kind of privacy or patient care protocol which told it not to linger in this room. ]
You should - get some rest. I can look around and find us a safer place to crash. Shouldn't take too long. This place seems pretty deserted. Doubt I'm gonna have a hard time finding space.