[Eren is shoved. It makes him want to pick Thorfinn up and carry him inside.
[He doesn't. He doesn't mess around like that anymore. Things are taken too seriously. He's forgotten how to act like a friend, a partner, someone worth calling family.
[He steps away and tucks his hands into the pockets of his coat, looking down at Thorfinn.]
Kanoa asked me the same question. I don't have to explain that legs grow to you, do I?
[ Thorfinn notices there's some difference in Eren. He chalks it up to four years passing, to war. He knows how war can change things.
(He has no idea what happened to Eren, how off he is.) ]
I know legs grow! Whatever. In four years I'll be taller than you anyway.
[ He sounds like a petulant child about it. He's longed to be tall like his father, refusing to accept that he can't be. But ultimately it's a deflection from everything else, from Eren's disappearance, from his reappearance and his changed demeanour. ]
I will be. [Quiet; tired, maybe. He turns back to Thorfinn and takes his hand - fiddles with the fingers.
[He leans in to take a kiss - seems to remember halfway through what kissing someone he loves feels like, then takes Thorfinn's face in both of his hands and deepens that kiss.
[Eren's love never dies, never diminishes. It only grows more terrible.
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[He doesn't. He doesn't mess around like that anymore. Things are taken too seriously. He's forgotten how to act like a friend, a partner, someone worth calling family.
[He steps away and tucks his hands into the pockets of his coat, looking down at Thorfinn.]
Kanoa asked me the same question. I don't have to explain that legs grow to you, do I?
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(He has no idea what happened to Eren, how off he is.) ]
I know legs grow! Whatever. In four years I'll be taller than you anyway.
[ He sounds like a petulant child about it. He's longed to be tall like his father, refusing to accept that he can't be. But ultimately it's a deflection from everything else, from Eren's disappearance, from his reappearance and his changed demeanour. ]
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Thorfinn...
[He turns back to face the man.]
I'll have to go for a while. I'll see you later, won't I?
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Yeah. As long as we're both still here, you'll see me.
hehe we can wrap on yours <3
[He leans in to take a kiss - seems to remember halfway through what kissing someone he loves feels like, then takes Thorfinn's face in both of his hands and deepens that kiss.
[Eren's love never dies, never diminishes. It only grows more terrible.
[When they break:]
Tonight, then.