i feel like the Gale Problem (TM) is that he needs to go through a solid breakdown. just, reduced to constituent parts and then put back together. when making an omelette(getting a boy to a point of emotional openness and vulnerability) you gotta break a few eggs(said boy's mental wellbeing). on a totally unrelated note, after pulling the trigger on that kid, how hard do you think he'd spiral about it?
tbh i don't think he does spiral about it
not right away
it takes six months of being home, six months of telling himself he's fine, six months of planning the wedding, and he's walking around some park or cute little historic downtown district, maybe with marge on his arm
and some tow-headed kid in a baseball cap comes hurtling down the path towards them, shrieking his head off laughing because his friends are chasing him around
and gale just hears the click and the kid's head didn't actually explode into gibbs but he's seen it happen so it just kinda superimposes over the image of the kid in the woods and the kid in the park and it echoes in his head like it's been doing in the nightmares he makes himself forget in the morning and he starts shaking and hyperventilating and marge has no idea how to handle it and he has no idea how to handle it because he's supposed to be perfect for her and everything is just
Your shit is *apart*, and it's rather unbecoming of a cop and a human being. It's supposed to be the opposite of that: *together*. Compressed in a small area. To achieve a solid level of shit-compression, squeeze your butt-cheeks together for 30 minutes. Do something similar with the two hemispheres of your brain. Talk to people, maybe that will help.
Solution
Bizarre scientific news from Revachol West today, where a police officer's shit has been observed at a pressure of around 495 giga-decimals. These metallic hydrogen levels of shit-togetherness were thought to exist only at the center of collapsing stars, not law officials. It remains to be seen how long the shit-singularity lasts.
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