Re: Patrick/Jacob
"Perhaps." Jacob nodded, he'd never be able to say for sure how much of who he was now was simply a result of the time in which he'd grown up and how much was completely him. "I might have ended up a completely different person if I'd been born in another time." Though he doubted it, so much of who he was, was thanks to his parents, to their influence - his issues with sex though that was the only thing he could have possibly seen changing.
"I doubt the Dark Lord hopes the same." Jacob might not have been at the Ministry during the attack, but he could imagine the numbers. The sort of indiscriminate killing they had done there. No, there would be just as much killing, at least from the Dark Lord's side as there had been in the past. But that would be what their training was for, or so he was told - to help them with those realities.
Jacob pulled away from Patrick, he'd tried to push away his doubts and confusion about Patrick, to hold them in until he'd known him better and could form a more whole picture of the other man, but this - talking the way they were and Patrick's seeming willingness to just move on without comment - Jacob couldn't make it fit and he couldn't just stand there and let Patrick continue to confuse him. "You want something, everyone does - why would you do any of this?" He waved his arm around him to indicate the party, the sex, the kissing, the touching... all of it. "What do you want? I've done this long enough to know when someone is trying to get something from me - you're hiding something and I just ... I need to know what it is, I can't keep trying to figure you out, half the time you don't make even the tiniest bit of sense."