[ Algric ... listens at least, and Tim’s seriousness saves Algric from immediately reacting with visceral anger at - well. This is pity, isn’t it? Well-meaning pity, which tempers it greatly, but it resonates down to his bones with a painful ache.
He has to gulp back the sharp words that Tim doesn’t deserve to have levied at him. But the conflict is clear enough on his face, as is the wound that Tim has accidentally come too close to reopening. Only the fact that they’ve already had an argument once today saves Algric from opening his mouth and saying something he will regret. ]
Or what? What’s the alternative? That - that someone else would actually do more than take pity on me?
[ Some acid leaks out anyway, but he at least deflects it from landing directly on Tim. ]
God. Sometimes I think - I think Jon is just safe. I mean, you’ve already asked the question multiple times. Why him. How could it possibly be him. Clearly, anyone with better options would choose differently.
[ Except Algric - and Martin - wouldn’t choose differently given “better” options, of course. And even saying that, his tone softens into fondness. God he loves Jon so much, flaws and all. ]
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Date: 2020-08-16 03:49 pm (UTC)He has to gulp back the sharp words that Tim doesn’t deserve to have levied at him. But the conflict is clear enough on his face, as is the wound that Tim has accidentally come too close to reopening. Only the fact that they’ve already had an argument once today saves Algric from opening his mouth and saying something he will regret. ]
Or what? What’s the alternative? That - that someone else would actually do more than take pity on me?
[ Some acid leaks out anyway, but he at least deflects it from landing directly on Tim. ]
God. Sometimes I think - I think Jon is just safe. I mean, you’ve already asked the question multiple times. Why him. How could it possibly be him. Clearly, anyone with better options would choose differently.
[ Except Algric - and Martin - wouldn’t choose differently given “better” options, of course. And even saying that, his tone softens into fondness. God he loves Jon so much, flaws and all. ]