[ The pain from Derek's claws doesn't last long, which surprises even him - he presses against the right nerves and forges the right connection, and despite a strong sense of physical discomfort, Tate, if anything, would more likely just feel exposed. There's the overwhelming sense of Derek's presence covering every part of him, enveloping him in every thought and feeling that makes Derek Derek, and it feels like now, more than ever, Derek can really see him.
Derek's head is a mess, with Tate's thoughts infiltrating his own. His eyes stay clenched shut as he searches through flashes of memories too fragmented and minor to understand, but he pushes through the noise in his mind until, with Tate's help, he focuses on the day the boat arrived. He sees Noah, briefly, he sees cabin walls and smells the spray of the sea, but his mind warps and changes until he sees the eldritch, horrible visions that crawled into Tate's head while he was drowning. Derek doesn't flinch, but he nearly does - which would have been enough to make this disastrous.
He takes the memories away. One by one, Tate just - forgets the horrible shit he saw. There's a faceless woman, an endless expanse of space, and one second they're there, and the next, they're not. It takes a few minutes of careful navigation, but before long, anything Tate saw while he was drowning is just - gone. ]
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Derek's head is a mess, with Tate's thoughts infiltrating his own. His eyes stay clenched shut as he searches through flashes of memories too fragmented and minor to understand, but he pushes through the noise in his mind until, with Tate's help, he focuses on the day the boat arrived. He sees Noah, briefly, he sees cabin walls and smells the spray of the sea, but his mind warps and changes until he sees the eldritch, horrible visions that crawled into Tate's head while he was drowning. Derek doesn't flinch, but he nearly does - which would have been enough to make this disastrous.
He takes the memories away. One by one, Tate just - forgets the horrible shit he saw. There's a faceless woman, an endless expanse of space, and one second they're there, and the next, they're not. It takes a few minutes of careful navigation, but before long, anything Tate saw while he was drowning is just - gone. ]