>>4034730i’d have him tell me first what’s up so i know how much of a timeframe i have to get a better idea. is he being chased? if yeah, bring him in, lock the doors, motion him to my couch and call the emergency number. first tell him i’ll call and that they’ll probably dispatch, and ask whether he’s entirely, 1-0-0-% sure he’s being chased or whether it might be something else so he has an out if there was some other trouble and he was so messed up he’d inadvertently blurted whatever first popped into his mind, etc.
basically it really depends on the situation, but if it were only the possibility of his being tracked down by someone, i’d let him stay over, sleep on my couch, and bring him everything i could think of or do whatever it took to make him feel better. i’d sleep on the floor in front of the couch between it and the front door then in the morning, i’d make him blueberry pancakes or eggs with toast and jam and a cup of milk or orange juice or whatever sounds best, then when he’d eaten and was feeling more himself, i’d try to talk and find out more so i could properly do well by him. then i’d openly repeat back what i understood of his situation at my kitchen table and walk him through my thinking on what we could both do next, making sure he understood i wasn’t going to do anything at all until he agreed something was a good idea (like, if we should contact a guardian or adult he trusted, or if he wanted to inform the cops on whoever had at him, or who knows.) then..yeah wow tldr i’m so tired i just kept typing. basically, depends, but i literally couldn’t close the door on anyone who was in distress and needed help, it doesn’t matter if there’s a gun wielding psycho firing off a machine gun and coming up the block chasing a stumbling blind elderly hobo or whatever. the genovese murder always really bothered me, though that only feels similar. tldr’ing a little more..
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