"Well, I assume you can control your teeth as well as I can," he says with a little smirk, but then the implications of the conversation start to sink in, and he feels a flush creeping up the back of his neck.
"Ashton and I...it's serious." It is. Ashton seems less certain about what serious means than Barcus is, but still. Their affection, gruff as it is, is too tender and real to be anything less than serious. "But it's not exclusive. I'm not sure it can be, at least not on his end. He has his friends, and a dangerous job ahead of them, and even if I thought he could drop all of that for me, I wouldn't ask him to."
"We talked about it. I asked him to tell me if something gets serious with someone else, and told him I'd do the same."
"Mind you, I didn't presume--I mean, you and I are friends, but the idea that you might see me that way actually hadn't crossed my mind." A deep breath. "That said, I don't give amulets to just anyone. The one I gave you, that's the kind of thing you only give to someone you want to see again and again."
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"Ashton and I...it's serious." It is. Ashton seems less certain about what serious means than Barcus is, but still. Their affection, gruff as it is, is too tender and real to be anything less than serious. "But it's not exclusive. I'm not sure it can be, at least not on his end. He has his friends, and a dangerous job ahead of them, and even if I thought he could drop all of that for me, I wouldn't ask him to."
"We talked about it. I asked him to tell me if something gets serious with someone else, and told him I'd do the same."
"Mind you, I didn't presume--I mean, you and I are friends, but the idea that you might see me that way actually hadn't crossed my mind." A deep breath. "That said, I don't give amulets to just anyone. The one I gave you, that's the kind of thing you only give to someone you want to see again and again."