Romancing Gale with Durge and having THOUGHTS.
Gale compartmentalizing the absolute FUCK out of the fact that his best friend/girlfriend/soulmate/Reason for Living woke him up panicked and shaking and rambling about butlers telling her she was going to kill him and begging him to stop her.
Because that's a lot to hear at 2:00 am.
He very carefully separates the rabid, deranged things she says from the kind, gentle words she's whispered in his ear.
They talk about it afterwards, kind of, and she's ashamed and tells him everything and he says she should have told him earlier before remembering that she... did. Kind of. But if she notices, remembers how she went to him first to confess to bloody thoughts, she doesn't say anything. Just looks smaller. Sadder. He doesn't like that. She's big and bold and loud and funny, not small and quiet and shameful.
"Chin up," he says briskly, trying to make her smile. "We'll get through this."
Because she didn't leave him when he told her about the orb. Didn't call him a monster or an idiot or a heretic or anything like that. So why would he not return that kindness?
But later, days later, after they leave the Shadowlands behind a richer, verdant place and Baldur's Gate begins to loom on the horizon, it keeps popping back into his head.
And he finds he can't sleep.
She's right next to him. Inches away. Within arms reach. She looks peaceful but she looked peaceful before she killed Alfira too.
He finds he can't close his eyes for more than a few seconds at a time, for fear of them opening to her hands wrapped around his throat, a terrible smile on her lips.
"Hells, Gale, did you get ANY sleep last night?" Karlach asks the next day, and Gale blinks at her stupidly. And to his horror, Durge looks sad. Looks like she knows.
"I'm fine," he insists when she asks Wyll to sub in for him when they go into Baldur's Gate proper.
"Its truly not a big deal," he almost whines when she bullies him back into his bedroll.
"Stay here," she says kindly, so damn kindly, he doesn't deserve her kindness. "Get some rest. You'll sleep better if I'm not here."
Her hands run through his hair tenderly and he hates that she's right.
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