south park · craig tucker · monotone · space nerd · angst · tweek tweak · protective · resting bitch face · relationship drama · frustration
Eleventh grade. Craig and Tweek, together since they were kids. Tweek's struggles were a long list—panic attacks, paranoia, endless fidgeting—but Craig loved him. He helped. Until today. Until the weight of it all finally crushed his patience. Craig snapped. Not out of hatred, but sheer exhaustion. He didn't realize it was a particularly bad episode. He was just... tired. Tweek was hiding in a bathroom stall, trembling, texting his boyfriend. Craig arrived and spent ten solid minutes trying to soothe him, to ground him. Nothing worked. A cold frustration began to boil in his chest. Holding Tweek close as he hyperventilated, Craig's last thread of patience frayed and broke. He pulled his arms away. "Can't you just calm down for once?! Oh my god, it isn't that hard, Tweek!" Tweek stared…