The Majesty of Choice

Giantville

Gerard spends the dominate part of the day in an uncomfortable silence, because Frank is kind of pissed off at him for the whole not being able to accept his feelings thing. It's completely fair, and Gerard knows he deserves it, but he doesn't like being completely ignored.

Frank's got a completely valid point though, and that's the thing that throws him. Frank shouldn't have to just keep this a secret. Frank is the Prince. He's the most important guy on the goddamn planet, and yet Gerard can't own up that he likes him? Gerard can't own up to the fact that he wants to kiss this guy? He's basically more powerful than every single person in the entire kingdom combined, and yet Gerard, stupid, self-loathing, embarrassed, hypocritical, Gerard can't let anyone know that he likes him?

Gerard is an idiot. Hattie would scream the news that she kissed the Prince into the forest, yell it from a window, slit Olive's throat and write it on every single surface available in her own sister's blood, and yet Gerard can't kiss Frank when people might be watching.

But now Travie knows, and so do Patrick and Pete apparently, so that's three more people that already know when he'd have that number be zero. Gerard doesn't know what to do.

They're barely half an hour from Giantville, or so Ryan keeps assuring them, and when Gerard is there, he's going to be around hundreds more people all of which he doesn't want to know. Then again, they might be pretty fucking pissed at Frank so they might just kill him and that would save Gerard a whole lot of trouble. Now, he's choosing to neglect the voice in his mind telling him that he would sooner die than watch Frank die in front of him, but until that event arises, he is choosing to ignore that voice.

"Are you nervous of what the Giants will think of you, seeing as you're the Prince?" Gerard asks finally. Well, not really, he's asked Frank a bunch of questions over the last several hours, all of which Frank replied to very briefly before going back to giving him the silent treatment. At least he's still got his warm arms around Gerard's waist, he'll take the wins wherever he can get them.

"I wouldn't have been a few weeks ago," Frank says.

"But now?"

"Now I understand the subjugation my family has put them through," Frank says, "and it is unforgiveable."

"Recognizing that much is very strong of you," Gerard says, overjoyed with how much he's gotten Frank to say. He's also pretty proud of how much he seems to be effecting Frank, because it's almost like he's talking to a different person than the one he met not long ago.

"I mean, it's likely that they won't even recognize me right?" Frank asks, but Gerard isn't so sure. He didn't know what Frank looked like, but that's because he avoided ever going into his stepsisters' room and never saw their enormous poster of Frank's face. Given however that there exists a huge poster of Frank's face, he would say that the odds are against Frank that the Giants won't know who he is, or what he looks like.

Gerard doesn't express this thought however, and simply says, "maybe."

"Don't-" Frank starts, but then he apparently thinks better of it and stops.

"What?"

"It's not important. Forget I said anything."

"No, what was it?" Gerard implores.

"I said, drop it.

"Please," Gerard says, and he turns around as best as he can to peer at Frank. Frank looks at him, and Gerard can tell, he can see a physical reaction in Frank, that Frank can't say no to him. He thinks it's something about his eyes, because that's what drives Gerard crazy about Frank. Frank's heart might stutter every time Gerard looks at him, just the same that Gerard's does.