Matt had been bracing himself, half-consciously, for judgment. For being regarded differently, not that he knows how D regards him now. (Vaguely female-coded ...?) He expected anger. But he wasn't counting on compassion--certainly not compassion he's forced to believe, through the sheer, incontrovertible weight of their connection.
To top it all off, D has to go and say the worst possible things. Matt swallows.
As long as he isn't being kept on the rails by vampiric compulsion, he doesn't answer the question directly: ]
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Matt had been bracing himself, half-consciously, for judgment. For being regarded differently, not that he knows how D regards him now. (Vaguely female-coded ...?) He expected anger. But he wasn't counting on compassion--certainly not compassion he's forced to believe, through the sheer, incontrovertible weight of their connection.
To top it all off, D has to go and say the worst possible things. Matt swallows.
As long as he isn't being kept on the rails by vampiric compulsion, he doesn't answer the question directly: ]
I went back. He didn't ask me to.
I've been donating once a week.