Considering how long it had taken Beau to come out, Nate wouldn't be surprised if that feeling lingered for much longer than it did for those who had come out younger, much less those like him, who'd come out right away without any fanfare. He knew that his experience was still far from the norm, though he had hope that someday it would be more the norm. "Even so," he murmured, leaning in to brush his lips lightly over Beau's one more time before he turned away to get the stove going.
It was quite nice, the way the warmth filled the room rather immediately. "And it might still in some ways, but I don't predict any major issues." If he hadn't had professional flack just yet, Nate imagined Beau wouldn't at all. And if Beau's manager were concerned about that, she almost certainly would have said so. "Oh, but you could have," he disagreed lightly. "Because you needed to do it for yourself. But I'm happy to have helped."