Gio tilted his head to the side, staring at the new stranger. He looked familiar, but Gio couldn’t remember from where – maybe he just had one of those faces. Everyone looked like someone, especially when you’re fucked up. He nearly said no, before realizing he wasn’t in a position to really refuse anyone’s help. He couldn’t remember how to get home if he fucking tried. The back of his throat was raw, and he felt the disgusting bubbling heat of another potential vomit. “Yeah, actually,” He mumbled, swallowing it down and grimacing at the taste. “That’d be – yeah.”
If he stared at the tall stranger long enough he could see the outlines of his body moving from side to side like a bad television connection. This was a lesson learned for next time. His acid to Molly ratio was even and that’s all good and well, but it lasted way longer than he wanted it to. Or did it? How long ago had he been in the club? What time was it?
”Hey, what time is it?” Gio took the other boy’s hand and almost wanted to recoil instantly. Jesus, his hands were cold. “Oh, wait.” He stumbled slightly before laughing. “Shit, sorry. I’m uh… fuck.” Gio was secretly growing frustrated with himself, but tried to shove that aside. “’m Gio.” If he were sober he’d perhaps have some better concept of boundaries, but he couldn’t help but cling to the friendly stranger. His legs weren’t working the way they were supposed to, and if he stared in any one direction for too long then he got nauseous all over again.
Anthony started to tug the two forwards, and Gio dragged his feet along. He was momentarily fascinated in the dragging sound his shoes made against the pavement. If he timed it just right he could hear the beat to We Will Rock You, but also Ice Ice Baby, or maybe it wasn’t either of those, the more he tried to focus the more it sounded like Feel Good Inc. “Do you usually do this? Y’know pick up dudes on the – whoa I’m fucked up.”
Anthony nodded and pulled the man up slowly, not wanting him to throw up again. He felt the flinch when their hands touched and knew it was probably because his hands were cold enough to indicate that he could be dead. He probably looked like death too: boney and pale with tattoos everywhere, wearing all black. It would be funny if it weren't so morbid.
Anthony almost fell over when the stranger put all his weight on him, but managed to hold himself up by some miracle. He pulled one of the man's-Gio, he'd said his name was-arms up over shoulders and placed out of his own around Gio's waist to hold him up. His nose twitched then, and he realized there was probably some dried vomit on the man.
"I'm Anthony." He responded, not sure why he was bothering. Gio probably wouldn't remember his name considering just how fucked up he was. He started pulling them forward, his job made infinitely harder due to the fact that the other man was pretty much all dead weight at this point. Gio spoke then, and Anthony let out a snort and then chuckled at his words.
"Yeah, I'd say you're pretty fucked up right now. You're gonna feel like shit in the morning" He said, though he was sure the man knew that already. He somehow managed to get them to the train station and thanked every god that came to mind that the elevator actually worked in this station, or else he'd have had no idea how to get the stranger clinging to him up the stairs.