Re: [The Bridge over the River: Patrick/Newt]
It's all right, Patrick, really. [Newt realized he'd perhaps said too much. He tried not to talk about Adrian, certainly not in this way and certainly not with Patrick, but he'd mucked that up, hadn't he?] I'll stop, but—I don't know. Perhaps, erm, I've been overdramatic. [Newt tended much more toward understatement, but, this was all twisted up.] It's not as if I've been held hostage. [It all felt terrible. It truly did. The business with Adrian, but Newt wondered if perhaps he'd only experienced it that way, but that it'd not been that way at all. Then what?
Then, Patrick was telling him to take time in figuring out if he'd be able to handle himself and Patrick and Newt felt like a right idiot about all of it. He understood, of course, why Patrick was saying what he was, but that didn't make it feel better.] All right, I'll take some time. [He almost said he wasn't afraid of Adrian, just that the other man felt... somewhat like a stalker, but Newt thought perhaps he needed to stop talking about all of this. He sighed. Patrick said he was fine, then beckoned him to the house.] How gentlemanly, [he said of Patrick walking him back, but it was teasing.] I think I'll go to that fair in the Hall Way. And if you want to go when you've come back, we can. [He walked.] I wish I could've sent you off feeling better than you do. I won't apologize, because it's been outlawed, but the sentiment is there.