His brother had been rougher tonight. Yut winced as he sat in the bath, trying to carefully pour water over the bruises and cuts while stifling his hisses. He didn’t hear Eiji come in, though he stiffened when his hand came onto his shoulder, jumpy.
“What are you doing here?” He snapped, angry to be found in this state, unprepared and unable to hide the hand shape bruises on his throat and thighs.
Eiji half pulled him out of the bath, and Yut let him, too worn out to do anything about it. He did grab a towel to wrap around his waist and sat on the side of the bath, watching him warily through his wet hair.
✦ HE HADN’T INTENDED to startle the other. he’d seen them walk into the bathroom after he heard some crashing & yelling so he snuck out of the room to go make sure he was alright. he knew he should hate the other from what happened, from the betrayal of shorter & yut lung, but... they were in the same boat, were they not ?
carefully pulling them out of the tub, sure not to look down so he wouldn’t accidentally catch a glimpse of something he shouldn’t, he sets them on the edge of the tub. grabbing some bandages & ointment from the drawer, he kneels before the other, hands hovering very slightly over their upper legs. “ is it alright for me to touch you ? i’m just going to put some cream on so the bruises heal faster. “
