Brainy thumped his head against Lyle's shoulder now, even though there was a taut little smile on his face.
"The fact they you tend to never explain anything that you're feeling so that I can actually understand it and that I can't read tone and body language in many social situations," he said wryly, "and also tend to repress every emotion I possibly can may perhaps have something to do with it."
They were a mess. They really were and he wondered if that was a bad thing or if it meant that maybe now that they had this out of the way, it meant they could be a mess together. Wasn't that what most of the couples (and triad) on the team were like? Wasn't that what the entire team was, in a way? One gloriously coherent mess?
The smile faded slightly.
"It just didn't occur to me that anyone would ever feel that way."
Anyone. Ever.
The truth slipped out of his mouth only because he was having trouble holding back. He felt like a container that had been filled so much that some unnameable something was spilling over the edges, and the sides of that container were rapidly losing structural integrity.
Re: cw: language
"The fact they you tend to never explain anything that you're feeling so that I can actually understand it and that I can't read tone and body language in many social situations," he said wryly, "and also tend to repress every emotion I possibly can may perhaps have something to do with it."
They were a mess. They really were and he wondered if that was a bad thing or if it meant that maybe now that they had this out of the way, it meant they could be a mess together. Wasn't that what most of the couples (and triad) on the team were like? Wasn't that what the entire team was, in a way? One gloriously coherent mess?
The smile faded slightly.
"It just didn't occur to me that anyone would ever feel that way."
Anyone. Ever.
The truth slipped out of his mouth only because he was having trouble holding back. He felt like a container that had been filled so much that some unnameable something was spilling over the edges, and the sides of that container were rapidly losing structural integrity.