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talking about how gillion could live over 100 years longer than chip or jay and.
imagine gill caring for chip in his old age.
gill has only just started to feel the creaking in his bones that his friends complained of when they turned 30, but chip cant get out of bed without help anymore, and even his cane hardly helps him keep his balance. hes just about blind and nearly deaf and his breaths are that old man rattling wheeze.
and gill knows chips running out of time. he knows its a miracle that chip even still wakes up every morning. and he maybe gently offers one afternoon to go out and get the ingredients for chips favorite soup and theyll have that for lunch. and chip just wheezes out a half-there mumbled agreement. and gill sadly squeezes his hand. and gets up to go into town.
and hes gone just an hour or so, but he comes back and chips still laying in bed asleep. and gill sets the groceries down to check on him and let him know hes back. and chip,, doesnt respond.
gill squeezes his hand and repeats that he brought back stuff for soup, and theres nothing. he shakes chips shoulder and says itll be ready in just an hour, and nothing. and with shaking hand he feels for chips pulse. and nothing.
and gill knew this was coming, he did, he really did. but now hes sitting next to his best friend on the edge of the bed, surrounded by fresh ingredients he didnt get to cook, and he cries. he sniffles, brushes a hand through whats left of chips white hair, and breaks down crying with his face in his hands.