you're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling
A matching laugh huffs out of Nate, the moment warmed by humour instead of the uncomfortable tangle it should be. I’m sure she did her best to accommodate you, be nice. There is faux scandal in his voice, yet more laughter following on the heels of it until his chest is bouncing with giddiness, more genuine this time that his hysterics from earlier.
You’ll come with me? It shouldn’t have to be said, yet here he is. Saying it. Asking, just to be sure, just to soothe some deep down nerves. It isn’t like it would be the first time the Voice has seen Sunjata, and it isn’t as if she doesn’t know about him already. He’s glad they’re on the same page about deals being made (at least now) even without words. A deep, dull flash of anger stabs through him just as lips press against him, the tenderness and the love winning out over the swirl of darkness easily.
I wouldn’t mind adopting. That would still be... they’d still be our family. How many strays had they taken in by this point? Is the concept really that different?
You’ll come with me? It shouldn’t have to be said, yet here he is. Saying it. Asking, just to be sure, just to soothe some deep down nerves. It isn’t like it would be the first time the Voice has seen Sunjata, and it isn’t as if she doesn’t know about him already. He’s glad they’re on the same page about deals being made (at least now) even without words. A deep, dull flash of anger stabs through him just as lips press against him, the tenderness and the love winning out over the swirl of darkness easily.
I wouldn’t mind adopting. That would still be... they’d still be our family. How many strays had they taken in by this point? Is the concept really that different?
& you're trembling and he reaches over
and touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist
NATE
