Wincing slightly, Fitzgerald couldn't help but turn pale at the question that he was just asked.
"F... Fire?" he repeated, the word almost sputtering out of his mouth as he bit his lip and looked at the floor. Clearly, something had spilled, because nobody was ever supposed to learn about... That. The young man already conjured up ways he was going to find and berate the person who did this to him, the one who really thought that getting at his insecurities - his deepest one in fact - just to elicit some type of reaction from him. And the worst part...?
"It worked. It really fucking worked," Fitzgerald muttered under his breath, hugging himself as tightly as he could while struggling to think of an answer. Would he even be the type to save something from a fire? He was far too afraid of the flame to ever consider going into it, but at the same time, the thought of everything he had ever owned and treasured going up into flames seemed just as terrifying - if not more so. Besides, it wasn't like he was a stranger to the latter...
After a period of time, a sigh could be heard from the young man as he muttered to himself under his breath - his voice surprisingly shaky as words such as "You need to calm down, damn it" and "This isn't the time, this isn't the time" were said. He stood himself straight again before hanging his arms loose once more, although he refused to initiate the direct eye contact that he was usually so fond of.
His voice bitter and still admittedly quite strained, Fitzgerald finally answered, "Well, if it really matters to you, then I guess I'll save my dog, Pup. He means the world to me, and I honestly can't see myself without him... Like, I could do without anything else, just as long as he's safe and here with me." He gave a couple of quick glances before grumbling to himself, probably because that detail would probably be used against him too. Yet at this point, he didn't seem to particularly care, the fight having been replaced by an odd sense of flight that he hadn't felt since leaving home. "Still, it's not like he's with me right now, so if something were to happen where I currently stayed at, I guess that I'd have to settle with my bag, since that's filled with plenty of important items... My boss might get upset if he found out I lost that," he added with a half-hearted shrug, before immediately looking in the other direction and starting to walk off.