I've been reliably informed I have a lot going in the addle-brained department.
[A light shrug. It'd been different, the first time. A challenge which neither of them had backed down from. This... this was something else and they both knew it. Some part of him, the cautious, cynical part, said he will crush your heart and you won't even fight it. The other part, what was still hopeful, and unbroken, and cared for Jim... It can't be serious for either of them. Jim will die. Jim will leave.]
[Maybe it's the security of that statement, that's served him so well his whole life, that enables him to slide up to Jim confidently and smile at him.]
I don't say no to a bit of fun.
[That's what this is, fun. For both of us. That's all.]
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[A light shrug. It'd been different, the first time. A challenge which neither of them had backed down from. This... this was something else and they both knew it. Some part of him, the cautious, cynical part, said he will crush your heart and you won't even fight it. The other part, what was still hopeful, and unbroken, and cared for Jim... It can't be serious for either of them. Jim will die. Jim will leave.]
[Maybe it's the security of that statement, that's served him so well his whole life, that enables him to slide up to Jim confidently and smile at him.]
I don't say no to a bit of fun.
[That's what this is, fun. For both of us. That's all.]