Yuri allows himself to be tugged, which Victor takes as a small victory, but his expression is still troubled enough that Victor's not sure he's hearing anything Victor is trying to say at all, and he doesn't come to sit. If anything, he seems even more tense now that they're alone, which doesn't seem right, if he'd wanted to get away from people ...
But trying to guess is only going to land Victor in hot water, so he hauls his assumptions back from the teetering brink and sets them back down on a relatively sturdy surface. Even if his hand tightens in Yuri's a little, reflexively, at the words I can't.
Followed by stammered haven't and never, and he'll have to clear up what exactly Yuri's referencing here, but first, he needs Yuri to stop looking around like the shadows in the room are going to come to life and leap at him over Victor's shoulder. Even more, he needs to determine what exactly it is Yuri can't do. If it's allowing himself to be kissed again ––
(Cold rocks settling in Victor's stomach at the thought, threatening to seal a frozen stone wall across his throat.)
–– or ... something else. Whatever else it could be. "You can't what?"
He's spent eight months coaching and coaxing Yuri, and he's learned that Yuri can't always respond well to orders, that sometimes Yuri needs to be led along carefully, like a young horse just being broken to tack.
But he also can't allow any room for misinterpretation, here. If this goes wrong, Yuri won't be the only one who breaks. "Kiss me?"
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Date: 2017-04-13 05:27 pm (UTC)But trying to guess is only going to land Victor in hot water, so he hauls his assumptions back from the teetering brink and sets them back down on a relatively sturdy surface. Even if his hand tightens in Yuri's a little, reflexively, at the words I can't.
Followed by stammered haven't and never, and he'll have to clear up what exactly Yuri's referencing here, but first, he needs Yuri to stop looking around like the shadows in the room are going to come to life and leap at him over Victor's shoulder. Even more, he needs to determine what exactly it is Yuri can't do. If it's allowing himself to be kissed again ––
(Cold rocks settling in Victor's stomach at the thought, threatening to seal a frozen stone wall across his throat.)
–– or ... something else. Whatever else it could be. "You can't what?"
He's spent eight months coaching and coaxing Yuri, and he's learned that Yuri can't always respond well to orders, that sometimes Yuri needs to be led along carefully, like a young horse just being broken to tack.
But he also can't allow any room for misinterpretation, here. If this goes wrong, Yuri won't be the only one who breaks. "Kiss me?"