FrieAme AU where Friede's a paediatrician and Amethio's a terminally ill inpatient. Friede's in charge of Amethio's care and keeps telling himself not to get attached but oops Friede gets attached. So does Amethio. Contains main character death, obviously!

Thanks to my good friend for always contributing great ideas! <3

Amethio's funeral, shit goes down

[Me]
Thinking about Ame's funeral... It would be a small, private one. Gibe, Spi, Hamber and the other family staff/attendants (ZirConi etc). Obviously, Frie gets invited, too. Diana comes along since Ame was at her hospital and technically under her care. Maybe some of the other staff who helped take care of Ame too (Mur/Mol/Ori)

[Me]
Maybe 10 people max

[Me]
It's a very quiet, depressing funeral. Nobody really says much, until Spi gets up. His speech isn't long, it's just him saying that Ame endured things well and that hopefully he's at rest. "I don't have the right to praise you beyond that, since I didn't really know you that well, but hopefully you're no longer blaming yourself."

And if you can... please say hello to Mother for me. I'm sure she's taking good care of you, wherever you both are.

[Me]
(Frie's a complete mess by this point and trying not to cry too loudly)

[Me]
There's a lull after Spi's speech, until Diana speaks up, addressing Gibeon directly

Do you really have nothing to say about your son? At all? Honestly, I didn't think you'd be quite this pathetic.

[Me]
Frie, who's sitting near her, braces himself because like. You don't just talk to the head of the family like that at his son's funeral

[Me]
But Gibeon... hardly reacts. He just sits there, silently, for several moments.

If I said all I wanted to say, I would be unable to stop.

[Me]
Diana: You should still say something. Thank him. Apologise to him. Say goodbye. Anything.
Gibeon: I've already done all that. Privately. Why do I need to repeat it in front of an audience?
Diana: Won't you even... acknowledge him?
Gibeon: ...
Diana: He was your SON, you buffoon!
Gibeon: What do you want me to say? That I'm sad he's dead? That I regret not spending more time with him? I've already told him those things. I don't have to express my feelings publicly. All that matters is that I told *him*.
Diana: ...Don't you want... to boast about him? Tell us about how brave he was? Tell us a story about him?
Gibeon: Why do you care? This has nothing to do with you. Either be quiet, or you'll be forced to leave
Diana: Why are you so-?! No, actually. I have one more question
Gibeon: ...Go on.
Diana: Why do you insist on hiding your emotions? Nobody's going to mind if you're upset. We'd understand if you cried. What are you so afraid of?

[Me]
Frie just. Can't imagine having the balls to confront Gibe like Diana is, and he wants to butt in and say that actually, Gibe's tried really hard over the last couple of months to get closer to Ame and everything, but he knows it's not appropriate

[Me]
Gibe sighs and looks directly at Diana.

If I began expressing my grief, my sorrow, my sadness, my anger, my frustration, my pain... I would have no way of stopping them. They would take over me. Consume me. I can barely hold them back as it is. I can't possibly live a life engulfed in nothing but regret.

Do you want me to spend my days in anguish? Reliving the moments I regret the most? Thinking about all the things I should have done? What would that accomplish? Amethio is still dead. My wife is still dead. No matter what I do, no matter how I feel, nothing will bring them back.

Am I supposed to drown in my misery for the rest of my life? That won't change anything. Ultimately, what you want, is for me to improve as a person, is it not? In that case, expressing my emotions will only hinder that. I cannot, and I will not, be broken by the weight of my mistakes.

That would be doing a disservice to those who I've lost. Besides, I... do not deserve to grieve them. Not with how I treated them. Crying over people I dismissed? People I didn't know much about? As far as I see it, that's almost insulting.

[Me]
With that, Gibe goes silent again, and Diana can't think of anything else to say so she just glares at him and sits down again

[Me]
Frie has no idea how to react

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Oh Diana isn't fucking around (and Gibe's thought process... is very good)

[Me]
Spi: Amethio... wanted you to cry over him, though. He wanted you to be affected by his death. But you won't even shed a single tear over him, huh?
Gibe: Quiet
Spi: He thought he wasn't worthy of your emotions, and that he meant nothing to you. I guess he was right.
Gibe: SILENCE, SPINEL

[Me]
Spi: Don't assume you know how others are feeling! You always do that! "I don't deserve to grieve for them"?! Father... They're YOUR FAMILY! Your son! Can't you at least PRETEND that he meant something to you?!
Gibe: I don't see why I have to do that in front of others
Spi: That's because you're a coward

[Me]
Gibe: ENOUGH! GET OUT. LEAVE.
Spi: Why? Because I'm right? Because you don't want to face the truth? Mrs Diana was right... you're afraid. Of feeling anything. Don't be ridiculous!
Spi: Oh, and also, let me correct you: My mother... Our mother... Wasn't your wife when she died. She left you. Because you betrayed her

[Me]
Spi: Too bad a certain somebody isn't present, isn't it? I bet you were hoping to see him today. What was his name again?
Gibe: SPINEL-
Spi: Ah, right, it was Lucius, wasn't it?
Gibe: YOU ARE TO LEAVE IMMEDIATELY-
Spi: That was the name of the man you were prepared to destroy your family over, wasn't it? The man you cheated on Mother with?

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Oh, Spi pulling the receipts and calling his father out- (this funeral is now a shit show, but good for them getting their truth out there)

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Gibe, enraged, stands up to hit Spi, but Spi just sneers at him and storms out

[Me]
Frie sitting there like "I wonder if Amethio's laughing at them"

[Me]
Meanwhile Hamber just wants to fucking die

[Me]
And that's as far as I've thought with this haha

[Redacted]
It's really GOOD stuff... I love it all. I love this familial drama...

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And the tragedy of it all...

[Me]
Spi finally realising that actually he probably should call Gibe out on his bullshit, especially if Diana isn't getting through to him

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Yes. Go Spi, call your dad out on his bs! Do it for Ame!

[Me]
A few days ago Spi and Gibe got drunk and Spi cried his eyes out and was a complete mess but he was focused on Ame, so he didn't even think to call Gibe out back then

[Me]
Few days ago as in "before the funeral"

[Redacted]
He has a lifetime to call him out from now on-

[Me]
Spi lowkey gets annoyed every time Gibe still calls his mother "my wife" because dude you got divorced!

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You got divorced and that was all your own fault, dude. Why do you still think you have the right to call her that-

[Me]
Ame hated it too, but he never said anything. Not that Gibe frequently brought up their mother, though the two sons did pick up on the fact that Gibe still called her his wife long after she wasn't

[Redacted]
It almost sounds insulting, given the fact he destroyed his family.

[Me]
It sure does! (Gibe just doesn't want to accept the truth. He's found out actions have consequences and he's not very happy about that)

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Oh no, reaping the consequences of my own actions, how could I have foreseen that-