[ He does, of course. He wants to say it, if nothing else. Not because it's important, just because he wants to be saying things to Jotaro at all possible times and it's a thing that he can say. He missed him. Something took him away and anything that wasn't immediately following felt like swimming through ice water. But he swam. He swam and he clung to Adrian and pulled his head above water.
(It's the cold that kills you, not the drowning.) ]
The Moon Knights are unhappy about everything. They've come to ask questions a few times, but they haven't come up with anything solid enough to act on yet. I- might have gagged him once or twice to keep him from confessing.
[ Might have. Because Adrian is a self-destructive mess who actually possesses a conscience and what use would they be if Jotaro needed them and he was in moon-jail. The admission jostles something free in his broken-glass insides. He holds tighter. Hides his face in Jotaro's neck. ]
He's been a mess. I wasn't expecting- I didn't think it'd be quite that bad. I told him- told him that you'd need him awake. Awake and well and not locked away and-
[ He trails off. And he doesn't know what he'd have been able to do if he didn't have that to say. ]
-we would have found you. That's how I know. Because we'd have found you or he'd have destroyed himself trying, and I wasn't letting him do that.
insert disclaimer about rendering this non-canon if alba isn't on board here
[ He does, of course. He wants to say it, if nothing else. Not because it's important, just because he wants to be saying things to Jotaro at all possible times and it's a thing that he can say. He missed him. Something took him away and anything that wasn't immediately following felt like swimming through ice water. But he swam. He swam and he clung to Adrian and pulled his head above water.
(It's the cold that kills you, not the drowning.) ]
The Moon Knights are unhappy about everything. They've come to ask questions a few times, but they haven't come up with anything solid enough to act on yet. I- might have gagged him once or twice to keep him from confessing.
[ Might have. Because Adrian is a self-destructive mess who actually possesses a conscience and what use would they be if Jotaro needed them and he was in moon-jail. The admission jostles something free in his broken-glass insides. He holds tighter. Hides his face in Jotaro's neck. ]
He's been a mess. I wasn't expecting- I didn't think it'd be quite that bad. I told him- told him that you'd need him awake. Awake and well and not locked away and-
[ He trails off. And he doesn't know what he'd have been able to do if he didn't have that to say. ]
-we would have found you. That's how I know. Because we'd have found you or he'd have destroyed himself trying, and I wasn't letting him do that.