[ ... Fuck it, he doesn't care if she said he smells, he's gonna reach out and put his arm around her shoulders. Pull her in towards his body. Adjust his walk so that they're in sync with this new proximity, and not really want to let her go. ]
It's like you said, right? It's a part of me. It's why I am the way I am. That's never gonna go away.
[ If there was a way to make it go away — properly, not through whatever shit that had been back in Venera — he'd have taken it a long time ago. It's not like he hadn't asked about such things back in his own universe. It's just not possible. This is his life, always and forever.
He looks down at her, feeling that sense of protectiveness, that empathy, and it's. It's kind of a shock. Not that she feels it, just... the extent to which she does. He's never felt anything that deeply himself. He's simply not capable. So getting to experience for himself what he'd done to her...
Yeah. He's not gonna do this again. ]
You shouldn't like it. 's why I trust you. You'll only do it if it's necessary. And you actually will do it. [ That's just... they're cut from a similar cloth. Neither of them are the type to fuck around if the situation requires something more urgent, consequences on the others they care about be damned. ] If it happens again... I just want to know I'll have a way out. That's all.
[ He squeezes her to his side a little tighter before loosening up, enough that she can escape his grasp easily if she wants to. It's just that this moment now... he doesn't have the words to put to it. Just that he's reciprocating what he assumes must be the kind of closeness that comes normally to others, maybe, but only a fraction. That's as much as he's capable of. ]
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It's like you said, right? It's a part of me. It's why I am the way I am. That's never gonna go away.
[ If there was a way to make it go away — properly, not through whatever shit that had been back in Venera — he'd have taken it a long time ago. It's not like he hadn't asked about such things back in his own universe. It's just not possible. This is his life, always and forever.
He looks down at her, feeling that sense of protectiveness, that empathy, and it's. It's kind of a shock. Not that she feels it, just... the extent to which she does. He's never felt anything that deeply himself. He's simply not capable. So getting to experience for himself what he'd done to her...
Yeah. He's not gonna do this again. ]
You shouldn't like it. 's why I trust you. You'll only do it if it's necessary. And you actually will do it. [ That's just... they're cut from a similar cloth. Neither of them are the type to fuck around if the situation requires something more urgent, consequences on the others they care about be damned. ] If it happens again... I just want to know I'll have a way out. That's all.
[ He squeezes her to his side a little tighter before loosening up, enough that she can escape his grasp easily if she wants to. It's just that this moment now... he doesn't have the words to put to it. Just that he's reciprocating what he assumes must be the kind of closeness that comes normally to others, maybe, but only a fraction. That's as much as he's capable of. ]