For Anatoly, Dated Jan 30th

[capable_of]

To put it mildly, today had been a long day and Lex was very thankful to be stumbling home. Once he'd made sure Harris had gotten Helen safely to the clinic and been forced to get checked out himself, he'd slipped away from the chaos as soon as he could. There was nothing he could do here except take up space from someone who needed who'd come from the station after him and the only place he wanted to be now was home with Anatoly.

The only time he paused on his way back to the hut was to witness the space station falling into the ocean. It was a spectacular sight that Lex watched with mixed emotions. The station would have been of so much use to them on the island, he was pointedly not thinking about all the advantages it would have given him at home, and he'd genuinely enjoyed being in a lab again. But the place had also tried to kill him, as these things where want to do, and his closest friend was now fighting for her life because she'd come back to save him from the cyborgs. It was probably for the best that it was now heading for the bottom of the ocean.

Every step he took became hard the closer he got as the adrenaline from fighting for his life began to wear off to the point that he stumbled when he finally got to the door. He had to lean on it for a moment before he could open it, completely bone tired all of a sudden.

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[chesspolitik]

Even though Anatoly had lost his battle with Freddie and had quite the array of bruises to show for it, there was a tiny part of him that was proud. He'd fought Freddie and hit him - something which the bastard had very much deserved for a long time.

The other part had been exceedingly worried over Lex and the space station and it was only the fact that he was still fairly battered and couldn't move fast at all that had kept him from searching anxiously.

"Lex!" He scrambled from the bed and went to hug him as tightly as he could. There were a thousand questions he wanted to ask, but they could wait until he'd held Lex for a good long while.