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That night, with Merriell one bed over, Eugene has a dream about running around in the thickets and trees that hug the camp, dragging his feet when they refuse to cooperate, blades of crabgrass biting at his soles. One of the sporadic bedroom checks wakes him up, the flashlight's beam stretching from the door to his face and pressing at his eyelids. It lingers on Merriell far longer. Something makes Eugene not want to look at him: his slight figure under the covers, lamplit eyes peering out and seeking out even the slightest flicker of light to reflect.
1996. Eugene and Merriell share a bedroom at God's Hope, a conversion camp. Written for Sledgefu Week 2019, for the movie and TV AU, loosely based on The Miseducation of Cameron Post.