Will you throw me to the ground like you mean it?
reach inside and wrestle it out with your bare hands?
reach inside and wrestle it out with your bare hands?
Nate’s attention also shifts to his husband more completely, pride pulling the stri mg s for his smile now and finally adding a genuine warmth to it. It only grows as their eyes meet, joined by naked relief, the clenched fist of Nate’s expression loosening as the Voice grants the request without hesitation.
That’s the serious part done, which means it’s back to him, his frivolities. Nate spends a moment longer smiling at Sunjata, turning just in time to find the Voice’s brows expectantly high. The smile doesn’t turn plasticky and fake again but instead falls of his face completely. Left behind is a calm, quiet expression, all but transforming the Lone Ranger into the Lone Stranger.
“I miss the bond. Our,” he tugs Sunjata’s hand up and shakes it, “bond. I want… you can do something like that, right? Something that can’t be taken away, that’s just us?” Nate only realizes he’d started babbling after he stops, his brows pinching and his lips pursing.
That’s the serious part done, which means it’s back to him, his frivolities. Nate spends a moment longer smiling at Sunjata, turning just in time to find the Voice’s brows expectantly high. The smile doesn’t turn plasticky and fake again but instead falls of his face completely. Left behind is a calm, quiet expression, all but transforming the Lone Ranger into the Lone Stranger.
“I miss the bond. Our,” he tugs Sunjata’s hand up and shakes it, “bond. I want… you can do something like that, right? Something that can’t be taken away, that’s just us?” Nate only realizes he’d started babbling after he stops, his brows pinching and his lips pursing.
NATE
