[ Hei watches Mako stomp off to the bathroom, trailing a sulky cloud behind him. It's easy enough to guess the reason behind it. Hei doesn't particularly care, but now that he's alone with Korra -- truly alone -- something makes his stomach clench with a faint, shameful queasiness. He isn't sure when he'd lost his instinct for self-protection, but he is getting more careless, and maybe more vulnerable, when it comes to being around her. He's telegraphing subtexts, secret messages, that he'd once been so good at concealing. ]
[ Forcibly, he shakes his head clear. He'll worry about it -- whatever It is -- later. Korra's question makes him blink slowly, a quiet turn of lazy contemplation. ]
Good. But ... [ A beat, in which something in his chest flutters, and he considers how much to reveal. Eventually, with a mental Fuck it, ] It's better when I have you to myself.
[ Candid but not necessarily blunt. He wants her to feel the way he's seldom successful at treating her: as precious, and singular, like the shining little light she is. But he also means, It's complicated enough between two people without tossing a third into the mix. ]
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Date: 2014-11-03 12:25 am (UTC)[ Forcibly, he shakes his head clear. He'll worry about it -- whatever It is -- later. Korra's question makes him blink slowly, a quiet turn of lazy contemplation. ]
Good. But ... [ A beat, in which something in his chest flutters, and he considers how much to reveal. Eventually, with a mental Fuck it, ] It's better when I have you to myself.
[ Candid but not necessarily blunt. He wants her to feel the way he's seldom successful at treating her: as precious, and singular, like the shining little light she is. But he also means, It's complicated enough between two people without tossing a third into the mix. ]