Okay so what if, somewhere between the apo covid and cherri joins the organization, the tables get turned and Abolish gets sick? Which he absolutely denies is happening, being sick is the opposite of locking in. His muscles just ache from training too hard and he's just hot because there are too many people in this van, what do you mean he has a fever. And then he just. Falls asleep in the van.
Does the gang know where he live at this point in time? I can imagine a world in which he just forgets to tell them (accidentally or on purpose) where his apartment is. All meetings are organised either on campus or at someone else's place. They all just assume he lives in a tiny apartment without enough space to host them all and apo and pyro's place has an incredibly comfortable couch so its fine. And he's the type to walk other people home, not the type to be walked home. (Similar to how in canon abolish just does his own thing and nobody really notices what he's up to unless it directly involves them) Which is all fine and good until he falls asleep in the back of the car and nobody knows where to bring him to.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yes. Perfect. Strip away that man's barriers! He's sick he's achy he's not in full control of what he's saying and visibly confused as to why they aren't just leaving him to walk home. Apo will just pick him up and carry him inside (she said to come in twice and he didn't fully wake up, so this is the fastest way to get it done. Pyro, stop laughing.)
He would not tell them where he lives. That means they might show up at his house. Hard pass, no thank you. He will keep showing up at the applespice apartment that nobody told him the address for. But. He's asleep and there's nobody who knows where to take him or even if he has any other friends who can take care of him (no.) So he gets dumped on the applespice couch, and wakes up dehydrated and disoriented at 4:28am to a shadow looming over him (Pyro getting ready for class) and. reacts very reasonably, for a human weapon who doesn't remember how he got here.
(Pyro gets yanked to the ground with Abolish on top of him, discovers several kinks in rapid succession, and only doesn't wake Apo up shrieking bc Abolish covered his mouth. Abolish identifies him as human and lets go quickly but Pyro has already sorted him into the same "traumatised and Very Good with violence" slot they put Apo in and they're not even wrong. Abolish is ashamed of it but Pyro's like "no that one was my fault I forgot you were here. Apo yells at me for looming all the time")
Apo is the world's most awkward nursemaid the next day. He gets reheated tomato soup from a tin and has to stop her from microwaving the tin. She maintains eye contact for at least thirty seconds before going "you good if I sit on the couch or are you gonna be weird about it?" and Abolish Does Not know how to respond. He hates that this is working. It's so embarrassing.