[ it's a lot. after years of withdrawing from the world, even peter had been a lot. welcome, dragging him back into the present, but nonetheless a lot. losing the entire world, peter in stasis, a loss of purpose -- it would have been all too easy to fall back into that same haze again. to withdraw.
instead, here he is. having scones and tea with a young man who'd summarily seduced thomas (not a difficult task that night) in a bar and been a stable part of his life since. a friend, really. ]
Yes.
[ he admits after a moment, because that's not inaccurate. (if he has to swallow at the memory of eggsy pushing him against the bar, well -- he doesn't think anyone could blame him for that.)
and he'd never asked, after, if eggsy had been all right with it, with whatever it had been in the air that loosened their inhibitions, thomas' perhaps more than eggsy's, whether he'd taken any liberties. eggsy had answered those questions easily, implicitly -- but perhaps there's something he never said quite clearly enough himself: ]
no subject
instead, here he is. having scones and tea with a young man who'd summarily seduced thomas (not a difficult task that night) in a bar and been a stable part of his life since. a friend, really. ]
Yes.
[ he admits after a moment, because that's not inaccurate. (if he has to swallow at the memory of eggsy pushing him against the bar, well -- he doesn't think anyone could blame him for that.)
and he'd never asked, after, if eggsy had been all right with it, with whatever it had been in the air that loosened their inhibitions, thomas' perhaps more than eggsy's, whether he'd taken any liberties. eggsy had answered those questions easily, implicitly -- but perhaps there's something he never said quite clearly enough himself: ]
It's not unwelcome.