[ Although Gojou is usually perceptive of other people's emotions and ideas, he has no idea that Nanami is seeing him differently right now. So when he answers, he's quiet from the fact he's a little nervous to speak. A rare emotion for him, but this day tended to bring about the rarities. ]
You to stay.
[ The answer comes quickly. He had it in mind all along. Maybe he's just being a brat again, but he wants Nanami to stay as long as possible, as long as he can stand it. If that means until the next day, so be it. He'd be delighted. ]
I'll sleep if you're there.
[ He's being honest and it shows in his eyes. Maybe it's because the other is one of the few things left from that time - or maybe, though he would never admit it, he is attached to this man on his own merits. ]
[ There isn't any question of whether Gojou speaks honestly. Not tonight, not here, regarding one another across the counter in the lull brought on by Gojou's need.
Certainly, at any other time a request like this would chafe, surely a joke, surely self-indulgent and insensitive caprice. At this time, it's a request he simply doesn't understand, why it should be him, except that that way lies loneliness. Troublesome, yes, inconvenient, his plan to spend as little time here possible already undercut, now it looks as though he won't be leaving at all.
No, he won't be leaving tonight.
Nanami knows it even as he blinks at the immediacy of the answer, at the strangeness of the of the following claim, even as he finds himself still staring. He knows it before he even begins to think about it, to balk or to puzzle over it. He knows it as he picks up the Gimlet to finish it, a longer drink, tipping the glass farther back. It's when he moves to take the glass to the sink that he answers, his voice plain. ]
Then I'll stay.
[ It isn't a problem to sleep on Gojou's couch for one night. ]
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You to stay.
[ The answer comes quickly. He had it in mind all along. Maybe he's just being a brat again, but he wants Nanami to stay as long as possible, as long as he can stand it. If that means until the next day, so be it. He'd be delighted. ]
I'll sleep if you're there.
[ He's being honest and it shows in his eyes. Maybe it's because the other is one of the few things left from that time - or maybe, though he would never admit it, he is attached to this man on his own merits. ]
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Certainly, at any other time a request like this would chafe, surely a joke, surely self-indulgent and insensitive caprice. At this time, it's a request he simply doesn't understand, why it should be him, except that that way lies loneliness. Troublesome, yes, inconvenient, his plan to spend as little time here possible already undercut, now it looks as though he won't be leaving at all.
No, he won't be leaving tonight.
Nanami knows it even as he blinks at the immediacy of the answer, at the strangeness of the of the following claim, even as he finds himself still staring. He knows it before he even begins to think about it, to balk or to puzzle over it. He knows it as he picks up the Gimlet to finish it, a longer drink, tipping the glass farther back. It's when he moves to take the glass to the sink that he answers, his voice plain. ]
Then I'll stay.
[ It isn't a problem to sleep on Gojou's couch for one night. ]