[ it takes max a couple times reading over the message to feel like he's really absorbed it, and after that, there's max trying to type something back. but he's never been good at this - putting anything that thrums up so intensely in his chest into simple enough words to convey the same meaning. it's never felt like right. so as much as he types and erases and types and erases, what he ends up sending is much simpler. ]
i love you. you know that, don't you?
[ he doesn't say it much, he types it even less, because he's always felt awkward and out of sorts and stupid putting the feeling to the words, but max had hoped they'd all known. and it still doesn't feel like enough, so he's already tugging out one of the predrafted spells to port over to elliot's. even if he's not home, he has to be somewhere in the city. it'll at least make max closer. ]
i'm coming over.
[ he can't do this like this, with oceans between them. with elliot so far out of reach. so he'll be poofing into elliot's apartment shortly after, and scouring the rooms for him, and when he finds him, elliot will barely have a moment to breathe a 'hi' before max has lifted him up and off his feet into a tight hug. the kind that says i need you, you can't leave, you're too good. ]
2tru 2tru UGH ELLIOT Y U SO GR8
i love you. you know that, don't you?
[ he doesn't say it much, he types it even less, because he's always felt awkward and out of sorts and stupid putting the feeling to the words, but max had hoped they'd all known. and it still doesn't feel like enough, so he's already tugging out one of the predrafted spells to port over to elliot's. even if he's not home, he has to be somewhere in the city. it'll at least make max closer. ]
i'm coming over.
[ he can't do this like this, with oceans between them. with elliot so far out of reach. so he'll be poofing into elliot's apartment shortly after, and scouring the rooms for him, and when he finds him, elliot will barely have a moment to breathe a 'hi' before max has lifted him up and off his feet into a tight hug. the kind that says i need you, you can't leave, you're too good. ]