[ Cue a completely scandalized - and put upon - protest, complete with hand over heart and horrified expression at Claude’s own attempt to excuse away the statement as benign. Ish. ]
In what way could that ever be a compliment?!
[ Somewhere, one Lorenz Hellman Gloucester is being mortally offended right now, but that just makes the faint smirk tugging at the corner of his lips all the more genuine.
Anyway. It’s easier to focus on that half of the statement than any mention of his father. Which he is quite deliberately not touching with a twenty foot pole, he definitely did not have enough wine at dinner to have a conversation like that tonight.
So instead, he just reaches for his tea cup and lifts it, playfully making a little toasting gesture in Claude’s direction. ]
It can be. I’m pretty sure we get to make up whatever rules we want at this point.
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[ Cue a completely scandalized - and put upon - protest, complete with hand over heart and horrified expression at Claude’s own attempt to excuse away the statement as benign. Ish. ]
In what way could that ever be a compliment?!
[ Somewhere, one Lorenz Hellman Gloucester is being mortally offended right now, but that just makes the faint smirk tugging at the corner of his lips all the more genuine.
Anyway. It’s easier to focus on that half of the statement than any mention of his father. Which he is quite deliberately not touching with a twenty foot pole, he definitely did not have enough wine at dinner to have a conversation like that tonight.
So instead, he just reaches for his tea cup and lifts it, playfully making a little toasting gesture in Claude’s direction. ]
It can be. I’m pretty sure we get to make up whatever rules we want at this point.