littlegentleman: (72)

[personal profile] littlegentleman 2025-04-03 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Junior hesitates, seeming this time a bit more reluctant to admit the details. Maybe that, in and of itself, is clue enough.]

...it doesn't matter. I was asked to do it, so I want to help.
littlegentleman: (117)

[personal profile] littlegentleman 2025-04-03 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
[No, Hwylryn wasn't his friend. He was something...more than that. But saying that out loud, even to himself, felt too risky. And certainly Hickey wouldn't understand--would just scoff.]

He only attacked you because he thought he was defending me. And I'm sorry about that--I didn't want him to go after you. I wish he hadn't. When I told him about our agreement, he decided he was going to be angry even when I said it was my choice.

[His shoulders slump slightly as he thinks about the fallout of that entire debacle. So many things were said that night.]

...he's just impulsive, and sensitive. I'm neither of those things, so it's better if I do it.
littlegentleman: (72)

[personal profile] littlegentleman 2025-04-05 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Somehow, even with Elias being reduced to a cigarette case, Junior finds a way to avoid meeting his "gaze". He knows how foolish and risky his feelings are, and that he doesn't deserve certain things. That he's opening himself up to people who are otherwise untrustworthy. But...wasn't he just as deceptive? Maybe these were the only kind of people who would ever understand him.

He shakes his head.]


Somewhere friendlier.