Ah-! We're engaged! We're too young to be getting married...
[And he's not even sure if that kind of thing would be allowed. Gokudera is equally as flustered as Zuko, but for an entirely different reason.
He listens and blinks and there's so much profound heartache in his expression hearing that, he looks down, draws his hands from the table and turns the band on the finger of his scarred hand.]
He's always been very invested in me... my personal growth, and taking care of me. The Yamamoto here... he's much more... rigid. [Only because Gokudera had been a regular jerk to him all the time and hadn't come to value their relationship.]
He's not my Takeshi. I couldn't say anything to him. It wouldn't be right...
[He'll just have to deal with this. Have to let this Yamamoto watch as the collar restricts him. Gokudera can't tell another version of his love who probably can't return his feelings that the bomber is his property. It'd be far too painful to be freed of the Pet Ring, but suffer heartbreak. He'd rather nurse his feelings while being... damaged, abandoned goods.
Gokudera is quiet as he thinks it over, remembers the look on Takeshi's face as he removed the collar from his neck just before he died, and a tear rolls down his face. He closes his eyes, takes a deep breath and wipes it away.
Zuko might think it destiny that Gokudera and Yamamoto keep ending up together. Gokudera thinks it's just a cruel joke. Takeshi is trapped in Anchor, in a dome on a radiated planet without him.]
Why should I know that?
[Even if it is believable, that only makes his heart hurt worse.]
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[And he's not even sure if that kind of thing would be allowed. Gokudera is equally as flustered as Zuko, but for an entirely different reason.
He listens and blinks and there's so much profound heartache in his expression hearing that, he looks down, draws his hands from the table and turns the band on the finger of his scarred hand.]
He's always been very invested in me... my personal growth, and taking care of me. The Yamamoto here... he's much more... rigid. [Only because Gokudera had been a regular jerk to him all the time and hadn't come to value their relationship.]
He's not my Takeshi. I couldn't say anything to him. It wouldn't be right...
[He'll just have to deal with this. Have to let this Yamamoto watch as the collar restricts him. Gokudera can't tell another version of his love who probably can't return his feelings that the bomber is his property. It'd be far too painful to be freed of the Pet Ring, but suffer heartbreak. He'd rather nurse his feelings while being... damaged, abandoned goods.
Gokudera is quiet as he thinks it over, remembers the look on Takeshi's face as he removed the collar from his neck just before he died, and a tear rolls down his face. He closes his eyes, takes a deep breath and wipes it away.
Zuko might think it destiny that Gokudera and Yamamoto keep ending up together. Gokudera thinks it's just a cruel joke. Takeshi is trapped in Anchor, in a dome on a radiated planet without him.]
Why should I know that?
[Even if it is believable, that only makes his heart hurt worse.]