[Mm. He really wants to keep trying to deny but, y'know, yeah. Yeah that's about it. Thank god someone in this conversation is good at reading his emotions, because he's not.
On the other hand it would have been easier and safer to just go on comfortably considering her Just A Friend and now he's stuck with this instead, so that's great. It's Fiddleford all over again. It's going to be the same song and dance of convincing himself Just Friends is good enough and burying anything else studiously down deep enough that it won't cause problems. Because, y'know, he can't act on this. Ever.]
I haven't had good luck with romance in the past. You know that. If, theoretically, I did have feelings for her beyond the platonic you can't blame me for being reticent to act on them.
[It isn't that he thinks Elsa would ever, ever be capable of anything approaching what Bill put him through. It's that she'd be the first person since Bill, and the second ever in his life, that he gave himself over to that much.
You know, if he was in love with her, hypothetically.]
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On the other hand it would have been easier and safer to just go on comfortably considering her Just A Friend and now he's stuck with this instead, so that's great. It's Fiddleford all over again. It's going to be the same song and dance of convincing himself Just Friends is good enough and burying anything else studiously down deep enough that it won't cause problems. Because, y'know, he can't act on this. Ever.]
I haven't had good luck with romance in the past. You know that. If, theoretically, I did have feelings for her beyond the platonic you can't blame me for being reticent to act on them.
[It isn't that he thinks Elsa would ever, ever be capable of anything approaching what Bill put him through. It's that she'd be the first person since Bill, and the second ever in his life, that he gave himself over to that much.
You know, if he was in love with her, hypothetically.]