im gunna bring alien ty back , alien ty gets a flashback n he starts freaking out and hitting josh and thrashing bc he thinks hes whatever evil thing took hold of his planet's people and josh has to hold him down and calm him down and get him to realize hes ok hhdh
the thrashing is what wakes him first, tyler’s side of the bed jumping and jolting as if from an earthquake.
“ty,” josh mumbles, throws an arm over to find that tyler’s quaking so bad it’s a wonder he’s still on the bed. “ty?”
still half asleep, he picks himself up to look at his boy, shivering and shaking and mumbling in his sleep. he goes to pet a hand down his arm and tyler grabs him, hard, viselike grip squeezing the carpals at josh’s wrist together.
“ow, tyler.”
“get away,” tyler mumbles, then louder, “get away! don’t hurt me!”
“tyler, it’s me,” josh says, and this must be loud enough for tyler to wake up because his eyes flash open. but they’re filled with horror, seeing whatever he was behind his eyelids and not what’s actually in front of him.
he screams so loud josh winces, scratches a hand at josh’s shoulder and shrieks, “get away! go, get away, don’t hurt me or my family, please!”
“tyler! tyler, it’s me!” but tyler is still screaming, the mattress creaking as he claws at josh and tries to push him away. finally josh shouts, “it’s josh!”
and tyler goes still, panting and hanging onto josh and starting to cry. “joshua? j-josh, i’m…what…i thought…you weren’t.” then, as if realizing what happened, “oh, joshua, i’m sorry. i…i’m so sorry, i thought you were…oh, goodness, i can’t…i need some h20…”
josh gets him a glass of water, chilly and frosted from the fridge, and lets tyler sit up in bed, drinking almost the whole thing down. he pets tyler’s sweaty hair back and promises that he’s okay, that josh is here with him.
tyler, however, spots the scratches at josh’s arm and runs his fingers over them. “did i do that?”
“it doesn’t matter,” josh answers instead. “what matters is that you’re safe. and i’m safe. and we’re here together. and i’m always gonna protect you, no matter what.”













