Theodore Nott (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nottfinished) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} finnigans_rpg, |
Theo was pleased to hear that about Ernie, even if it had been playful. He worried about asserting his will over someone else, even though if he'd confessed that fear to anyone else it would have been laughable. Next to an age-old and well-rooted fear about being burned at the stake, Theo feared becoming his father more than anything. Ernie was resilient and didn't seem like he'd take any nonsense from anyone and that reassured Theo.
That and it was nice to know that Ernie honestly wanted to do this with him; he hadn't realised how nice it felt for someone to want to be around him.
Ernie went and voiced just what Theo had been thinking next, but he prefaced it with the most harmless, chaste little kiss on the cheek beforehand and it might as well have been a slap in the face for all the reaction Theo gave. In fact, he might have reacted better to being struck. He lifted his free hand and held it over the place Ernie's lips had touched, like there'd be a mark there that he could feel, looking over at Ernie like he was seeing him for the first time, seemingly frozen in shock.