#the poetic justice of his repressed trauma still hurting just more visibly physically than mentally at first

[failmilias]

Elijah has been in pain for as long as he can remember; the growing pains never stopped, so it seemed. He did mention it at various times over his childhood, but he was usually brushed off with a painkiller and a pat on the head if he was lucky, so he stopped. It wasn’t until university— and too many nights lying in bed unable to move, much less think, and too many times he swore he had a sunburn when everyone told him there was nothing there— that he actually received his diagnosis.