He has made his position clear in the past. He views us as friends. He does not wish for anything else.
The parameters are far from arbitrary, Washington. He set them himself. And I will not presume to breech them if he is not comfortable with the situation. I would not risk our friendship.
[Silence means Locus is thinking about it. After Wash's conversation with York, it's worth pressing.]
Yeah, well, that was before you made a move on him and gave him something to think about.
You realize things aren't magically going to go back to the way they were before, right? You changed things and now you need to talk about it, because you're not a mind reader and neither is York and talking is the only way either of you is going to know what the other one is thinking.
[He knows that talking to Locus is like looking in a mirror sometimes, but it still takes him by surprise every time Locus throws those parallels into sharp relief.]
But he's a lot more self-aware now than he used to be, and so are you, and we're in an environment where you have the time and infrastructure to actually make this work if you want to give it a try. Hell, you can even get relationship counseling if you need to, and when was the last time that option was on the table?
As his friend, I want to see him happy in a way that might actually be good for him. Believe it or not, you're good for him.
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He has made his position clear in the past. He views us as friends. He does not wish for anything else.
The parameters are far from arbitrary, Washington. He set them himself. And I will not presume to breech them if he is not comfortable with the situation. I would not risk our friendship.
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Yeah, well, that was before you made a move on him and gave him something to think about.
You realize things aren't magically going to go back to the way they were before, right? You changed things and now you need to talk about it, because you're not a mind reader and neither is York and talking is the only way either of you is going to know what the other one is thinking.
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I know him well enough to know that he will ignore it, given time to excuse it.
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[ And that's the thing he's fixated on for all this time. The reason he hasn't just come out with it, said something before now. ]
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[He knows that talking to Locus is like looking in a mirror sometimes, but it still takes him by surprise every time Locus throws those parallels into sharp relief.]
[God damn but they are fucked up.]
...if he wants you, then that doesn't matter.
You need to talk to him.
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[ There's an exhale, frustration evident. ]
Even if...even if that were true, and he did. He has a habit of wanting things that are not good for him.
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But he's a lot more self-aware now than he used to be, and so are you, and we're in an environment where you have the time and infrastructure to actually make this work if you want to give it a try. Hell, you can even get relationship counseling if you need to, and when was the last time that option was on the table?
As his friend, I want to see him happy in a way that might actually be good for him. Believe it or not, you're good for him.
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[They both know about York's bouts of derealization. Locus is a hell of a lot better at resolving those than Wash will ever be.]
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I doubt it will end as poorly as the last, at the very least.
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