Being temporarily open to the influences of the dream means Topher feels what Gabriel feels, quite strongly at that, and the horror fills him. He doesn't have time to pull himself out of it, before Gabriel is grabbing him and changing the setting.
Topher staggers and ends up on his knees, hands cluthed at his chest in an instinctual reaction to the pain and emotion that he's feeling - that Gabriel's feeling. He almost finds himself losing control, and has to pull himself together to remember that this isn't really happening, that it's still all in Gabriel's head.
He looks up when a voice speaks, then looks to his angel friend with a worried frown. "Gabriel..." he says anxiously. He should be trying to get Gabriel out of this, get him lucid again, but his mind is a lot stronger than Topher would've guessed, and he's not sure he'll have any real chance fighting against it. He can still leave, just wake up - as far as he can tell there's nothing holding him here. But he doesn't want to abandon Gabriel.
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Topher staggers and ends up on his knees, hands cluthed at his chest in an instinctual reaction to the pain and emotion that he's feeling - that Gabriel's feeling. He almost finds himself losing control, and has to pull himself together to remember that this isn't really happening, that it's still all in Gabriel's head.
He looks up when a voice speaks, then looks to his angel friend with a worried frown. "Gabriel..." he says anxiously. He should be trying to get Gabriel out of this, get him lucid again, but his mind is a lot stronger than Topher would've guessed, and he's not sure he'll have any real chance fighting against it. He can still leave, just wake up - as far as he can tell there's nothing holding him here. But he doesn't want to abandon Gabriel.