Allen doesn't answer at first. The papers still on his lap, he just reaches out-- to wordlessly pull Shouto into an embrace if he was sitting close enough, and to beckon him forward so he can if he's not. Warmly and gently with thin but strong arms, but also tightly. You were suffering in silence, weren't you?
I'm sorry. ]
I'll sign them. [ He says it softly, near his ear. Anyone other than Shouto and he might say the papers aren't the important part, but the act itself has to be important to him and Allen can guess at how much thought went into the gesture and knows the bruised core it had to come from. It's not something he's about to dismiss at all since that would be dismissing his feelings, and he just sets a hand on the back of his head to press him closer as he bows his head and presses his face against his neck. ]
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Allen doesn't answer at first. The papers still on his lap, he just reaches out-- to wordlessly pull Shouto into an embrace if he was sitting close enough, and to beckon him forward so he can if he's not. Warmly and gently with thin but strong arms, but also tightly. You were suffering in silence, weren't you?
I'm sorry. ]
I'll sign them. [ He says it softly, near his ear. Anyone other than Shouto and he might say the papers aren't the important part, but the act itself has to be important to him and Allen can guess at how much thought went into the gesture and knows the bruised core it had to come from. It's not something he's about to dismiss at all since that would be dismissing his feelings, and he just sets a hand on the back of his head to press him closer as he bows his head and presses his face against his neck. ]
Of course I will.