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Damian's been feeling tired and angry at his famliy, Richard canceled their plans for a fived time this month and ist only been a week and a half in to the month. So here was Damina after school at Aiden's apartment, in the bedroom of his Bestfriend and crush companion in mischief, sitting on his bed playing UNO.
Aiden placed his hands over Damian's pushing them down for him to drop the cards. "Daim? You okay or something wrong?... I meant it when i said you could tell my anything and i wouldn't ask questions." Aiden's voice was worried but not babying or annoying no he was asking Damian as an equal, Damian liked that about him, he didn't see a kid assassin not that he knew, nor did he see a brat or an annoyance or anything execpt Damian and Damian alone.
"Hmmm, I suppose there is something is troubling me deeply. You remember that Richard and I were suppose to hang out as you call it today, yes?"
"Yeah, of course I remember. You were happy that he was the one to ask this time and blabbered on about it for an hour." Aiden said, nudging Damian's shoulder. "Not that I mind, of course. I like lisening to you ramble about your interest."
Damian hummed at that answer, an answer he only gets from Aiden, not that he minded it. He also liked lisening to Aiden talk about his interest for 'angst musik' as he calls it, making songs about topics people don't seem to like talking about.
"Aiden."
"Yeah, Daim?" Damian had moved to rest his head on Aiden's lap, something he started to do after Aiden made him rest his head on his lapwhen he had what he now knows is called a panic attack during on of their early hang out, he made Damian lay on his lap insted of trying to hug or something like that, running his hands through Damian's hair till he had calmed down.
Now it was something Damina did when he didn't know how to put his emotions into words letting Aiden run his hands through his hair till he knew what to say.
"I... My... huff."
"Take your time Daim."
"I know... I was just thinking, how do I now my family worries about me, like you mother and father do freely show you?" Damian hates being weak, but with Aiden it was as easy as breathing. Enjoying the small quiet of the room as he knows Aiden is tinking about how to frame his words.
Something Daiman learnd fast was that Aiden had troubel conecting with people as he thinks and acts different, Aiden having told him a bit later that it was called alexithymia and that he had ADHD aswell. Despite his struggles, he's good at helping people understand theirs.
"You don't, you shouldn't even have to question it but if you do have to that maybe you need to test that love to see if you should still break yourself to love them. We are childer we are ment to be loved and we feel it if we aren't loved enough. so stop thinking about what you did wrong because you didn't, they did."
"Aiden, my family doesn't know how to show love. From how I seen my bafons of brother interact with each oth-."
"Damian... No, you shouldn't comper how your brother show love to each other with how they show you love... You know my relasinship with my parents wasn't always thia nice..."
Damian stayed quiet knowing Aiden had a point, he wasn't long with his family yet to understand their way of showing love, Aiden wasn't normal with his ideas sometime and Damian knows he's probably already thinking of one.
Now one thing about Aiden that he hiddes well from everyone but Damian was his obsessive and possessiveness and quiet unhinged behaver.
"Daim... When I was younger Ididn't understand a lot and I couldn't ask my parents because I didn't know how, My old neighbour was... always kind to me when be babysat me. Taught me things I sho-..." Damian stayed quiet as Aiden talked, he told him the story before so Damian knew all Aiden wanted was for him to lisen. Aiden taught him that every victim wanted to be lisened to not comforted and being reminded of what they had became untill they were ready to accept what they became.
So that's what Damian started to do, even during cases were he was told to comforted the young or older victims he just lisen like he was doing now. "He taught me things no 8 year old should now. When he r...Raped me for the first time and only time, I asked my Parants that night for the first time. And they held me and promise that I'll be fine but I wasn't. It took me a few years to learn that but know that I do, I can happily tell you that if you want."
"What is it Aiden? I am in no way a reader of mind, so don't test my patience and spill your idiotic this insted."
"If you want we could... pretend that your being, I don't know groomed by... Me."
Now Damian knew his friend wasn't a bit right in the head but. "What!."
"Now, now wait. Daim. I promise you it won't get you into any trouble with your family with how you still struggel to adjust to what people see as normal. I'll take all the blame, promises Daim..."