Worth it. Yeah. Yeah, it was. Lestrange even sounded like he was being more than wry, there, and Theo was immediately certain that he was going to file that away to turn it over and over in his head again later, to relive the sound of it and probably make more of it than he was meant to – that, and the way he’d said Theo.
So – “If you have to,” he said, far more unabashed about the reluctance in it than he should have been. He didn’t have any good reason to tell Lestrange to stay – he’d only come here to avoid people and everyone would have gone home by now, and he might not have other plans but neither did Theo now, even if Cash could stay – but even so, he wished he would. They could do anything here, or sit around doing absolutely nothing, and it would still probably be better than any alternative.
But he could only stretch these moments so far and only hope there would be more of them, and there was only so much he dared say, so Theo just smiled back in something like surrender.
So – “If you have to,” he said, far more unabashed about the reluctance in it than he should have been. He didn’t have any good reason to tell Lestrange to stay – he’d only come here to avoid people and everyone would have gone home by now, and he might not have other plans but neither did Theo now, even if Cash could stay – but even so, he wished he would. They could do anything here, or sit around doing absolutely nothing, and it would still probably be better than any alternative.
But he could only stretch these moments so far and only hope there would be more of them, and there was only so much he dared say, so Theo just smiled back in something like surrender.
