Rosen blinked at the ribbon before smirking a little, "Yeah... you're so gay," he agreed before reached forward and swiping some of the hair out of Long's face.

Long tried to brush Rosen away again a little before suddenly realizing what Rosen meant. Immediately his face paled and he looked petrified, not that Rosen had seen him naked, but that Rosen had seen the ribbon. He was too terrified to move, looking completely helpless for the first time.

Rosen blinked, "Hey..." he whispered, tucking the hair behind Long's ear, "It's totally okay." After a slight pause he leaned forward and wrapped his arms around Long, "I won't ever judge you," he promised quietly.

Long flinched as Rosen touched him, starting to shake a little as he tried to acknowledge the fear.

Rosen didn't let go, "No one will hurt you here," he stated firmly, "And if anyone mocks you or your orientation again, I'll seduce them and make them miserable for the remainder of their miserable lives," he spat, darkly serious.

Long didn't say anything, still shaking slightly. After another few moments he reached up to his head to take the ribbon out.

Rosen caught Long's hand and pulled away enough to look at Long, "I think it looks nice," he stated, "It's nothing to be ashamed of."

Long swallowed a little before slowly daring to look up at Rosen, still looking ashamed.

Rosen's eyes were calm with no trace of pity, "It's nothing to be ashamed of," he repeated as he let go of Long's hand and fixed his bow, "You're just beginning to figure out who you are... don't be ashamed."

Long was having a great deal of difficulty grasping that concept. He looked away again, wrapping the towel around himself a little tighter as he kept shaking.

Rosen sighed a little as he picked up the mirror and pointed it at Long, "When you look in this... what do you see?" he asked quietly.

It took him a little while, but slowly Long looked at the mirror. He stared at his reflection for a few moments, swallowing before opening his mouth. But instead of any words coming out, a tear rolled down his face. He didn't seem to believe it until he lifted a hand up and wiped the tear off his face.

Rosen blinked again, reaching out and cupping Long's cheek with his hand, "You're special, you know that right?" he said quietly.

Long paused before moving to say something again. But once again, there were no words. Just some more tears.

Rosen took in a long breath. When he was doing his job... words always flowed with natural ease. He knew what to say to whom and when to say it. But when he looked at Long cry, for the first time he could ever remember, he drew a blank. He swallowed a little, real pain registering in his eyes as he set the mirror down and reached out with his other hand, cupping Long's other cheek.

Long didn't seem to notice Rosen was at a loss for words as the tears kept bringing more tears until he was sobbing lightly. He seemed to have been carrying around whatever this was for quite a long time.

Rosen still couldn't think of anything to say so he pulled Long's head closer to his chest, wrapping his arms around him again as he cried.

Thankfully, Long didn't cry for a long time. He recovered fairly quickly, but he didn't move.

Rosen was actually feeling a little dizzy so he didn't let go either. Long's tears were bringing up... unknown emotions.

Long slowly relaxed in Rosen's arms. But after a few more minutes he started to shiver a little as the heat from the shower finished dissipating.

Rosen paused, still dizzy. After a moment he reached back and turned the water back on before leaning against Long as Long leaned against him.

So Long stayed like he was, soaking up the comfort this man was providing like a dry sponge.

It seemed the more comfort Long soaked from him, the drier Rosen got. He closed his eyes, trying to sort out his feelings as he leaned increasingly heavier on Long.

When Long noticed how heavy Rosen was getting, he put a hand on Rosen's chest and slowly pushed away from him.

As Long pushed Rosen away, he started to fall backwards in the shower. He appeared to be unconscious.

Long quickly grabbed Rosen and pulled him back. Then he carefully maneuvered his way around Rosen to turn off the water before carefully getting Rosen out of the shower. He pulled off his wet clothes, quickly exchanging them for a dry towel before drying off Rosen's hair a little.

Long looked down at Rosen's face as he ran a towel through Rosen's hair, his hands gradually slowing down before he stopped all together, wondering who this mysterious man actually was or if he was even real. Then he slowly leaned down over Rosen's face and kissed his lips lightly for a moment; even though a friend probably wouldn't do that. Then he picked Rosen up and put him on the bed so he could rest.

For once, Rosen didn't seem to be sleeping peacefully. It looked like he was having a nightmare as he frowned and twitched a little on the bed.

After Long had changed back into his tourist clothes, he put a damp cloth on Rosen's forehead, trying to ebb back the bad dreams.

A little while later Rosen suddenly shot awake, eyes wide with terror before he slipped and fell right off the bed. He smacked his head again, rather hard this time at the amount of cussing.

Long quickly got an insta-ice pack and brought it over to Rosen.

Rosen blinked up at Long, "... Who're you?" he muttered, in pain and confusion.

"... Long," he replied quietly as he gave him the ice pack and went to find some pain medication.

Rosen pressed the ice-pack against his head and leaned back against the bed. I guess two head knocks and a knock out were enough to phase him.

So Long searched the cabinets until he found some pain medication and brought it to Rosen.

Rosen recognized the pain medication and grabbed it from Long's hands. From the amount he was pouring into his hand, he was about about serious OD.

Long took the bottle from Rosen and, with one swipe of his hand, took just the right about of medication out of Rosen's hand so that he was only taking twice as much as he should be.

Rosen blinked up at Long unhappily before wincing and dry swallowing the medication.

Long put the rest of the medication back and went to hide it from Rosen.

Rosen muttered something in german before attempting to get back up onto the bed.

Long let Rosen try to take care of himself.