[He does know Rafe is an insistent bastard, and that's why the panic returns to him.]
As I said...it won't happen again, so it doesn't matter. Just drop this...please.
[But even as the words come out of his mouth in a strained plea he knows Rafe isn't just going to let it go. He's stuck between detangling himself and crawling into a hole and just sitting perfectly still until he literally turns into a statue and Rafe stops trying to talk to him about this — naturally the latter is the easiest option.]
cw: body dysmorphia, skin horror, implications of past sexual/physical abuse, past slavery, ptsd
As I said...it won't happen again, so it doesn't matter. Just drop this...please.
[But even as the words come out of his mouth in a strained plea he knows Rafe isn't just going to let it go. He's stuck between detangling himself and crawling into a hole and just sitting perfectly still until he literally turns into a statue and Rafe stops trying to talk to him about this — naturally the latter is the easiest option.]