[They're all mostly still, exchanging quiet words here and there and nursing warm drinks. Ichimatsu's hands shake around the can regardless, leading Jyushimatsu to curl inward toward him as though acting as a blanket, assuming his immediate older brother was cold. Ichimatsu allows it for a while before gently coaxing the fifth off his lap and standing on shaking legs, looking from Osomatsu to his mother and back a few times, silently asking permission to approach him.]
[When it's granted, he settles into a chair set beside Osomatsu's bed and curls himself up in it, leaning forward and draping himself alongside his brother's upper arm. He doesn't say anything, just sits there, watching him for a while. It's barely ten minutes of near-silence outside of soft conversation between the family and the steady beeping of Osomatsu's heart monitor before he's dozed off, one hand on Osomatsu's shoulder.]
[It's less than an hour from then that he wakes up in a start, a dry rattle to his breath turning into a cough that Karamatsu would recognize but was enough to force him backward in the chair to cough into his elbow.]
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Date: 2017-01-28 08:21 am (UTC)[When it's granted, he settles into a chair set beside Osomatsu's bed and curls himself up in it, leaning forward and draping himself alongside his brother's upper arm. He doesn't say anything, just sits there, watching him for a while. It's barely ten minutes of near-silence outside of soft conversation between the family and the steady beeping of Osomatsu's heart monitor before he's dozed off, one hand on Osomatsu's shoulder.]
[It's less than an hour from then that he wakes up in a start, a dry rattle to his breath turning into a cough that Karamatsu would recognize but was enough to force him backward in the chair to cough into his elbow.]