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"it's unloaded.  no bullets  ,  not even a mag.  it won't hurt you."

@stoicontrol-           "yeah,   i'm  good.  i'll  let  you  handle   that,   big  guy.."

"I can always take care of him."  he offered lightly while walking over.  it could have been seen as a joke but well  —  ahn wasn't really one to lean on humor.  "I missed you too  ..  "  and maybe he should have held back  ,  at least played up rejecting the hold.  he has just been telling himself that this wasn't something he should be doing.  yet  ,  he bent down as soon as he was close enough  ,  just as he always did.

@stoicontrol-           "they   can't   agree  about    /anything/.   dylan   writes  these  great  lyrics  and  austin  sings  them  but  dylan  thinks  he's  singing  them  wrong  and  like,  yeah,  they're  about  dylan's  life so he  can  control  it a  little  but  they're  also a   /band/.   they  should  be  working  together,  not  against  each  other."    the  more  he  rambled,  the  more  he  realized  he  sounded  like a  tired  parent.   "it's   bullshit.   but  come  here,   i  missed  you."

he frowned a bit  ,  just slight twitch of his lips  ,  but nodded in understanding.  he was still on the job anyways.  it wasn't as if he should be cuddling up to the person he was protecting  —  nevermind the amount of times it had happened before.

"does that mean you feel that way about me?"  he questioned quietly.  even with everything he was currently feeling  ,  his question was still direct.  no hesitation or withdrawals  —  just straight forward.  that's how he always worked.  nathan never seemed to mind.  "you like me?  romantically?"

@stoicontrol-          "'cause   it  makes  you  happy.   you  kiss   people   you   /really/  care  about.  romantically,  you  know."  he'd  shrug a   little,  his  own  heart  aching  as  he told  ahn.  he  had  never  kissed  someone  he  liked  romantically.   but   ahn   was  so  different. 

"no  —  it's just  ..  "  he eyebrows furrowed in thought  ,  lips pinching into a slight pout.  he hated the moments when he didn't understand something.  usually  ,  he'd brush it off with a face of stone  ,  but here  —  with nathan  ,  it was easy to show his true thoughts.  "I've seen people do  ..  this before  ,  but I never understood why."  what did you get out of it?  what was the reason?  "why did it make me feel  ..  warm?"

“  i'm  not  your  baby  ,      and  i  never  will  be  .      „

@drumdeaths          "pretty  sure  it  isn't  red,  but  whatever  you  say,  baby."

@drumdeaths        "of   course.   just   the   way  you   like   them."

“  ...    thorns  still  on  them  ,     right  ?     „

@drumdeaths           "it's    habit.   i   brought   you  flowers  this  time."  

"no where in my contract does it state that I've gotta listen to you.  a mistake on your part  ,  really."  he shrugged  —  still standing in the way of the door.  "again  ,  you're not leavin' ."

@stoicontrol-          "pretty sure  you're  paid  to  do  both.    i'm   a  big  boy,   ahn.  i   can  go  out  for a  night   and   not   die."