[There is a lot of midriff on display and that's definitely not fine. Not fine at all. And that waistband goes so low. Too low. He's about to stammer out some sort of insistence when Lance asks that question.
For one heart stopping moment Tal looks over his shoulder, his expression utterly betrayed, deeply wounded and then he looks sharply away again. His breath comes out ragged, his shoulders shake a little. No, they're somewhere else. Maybe Lance has forgotten, maybe they used that memory wipe stuff on him like they had on Red and Stan. There's plenty of explanations that make sense.
But there's still a voice in the back of his mind that whispers that he's ruined everything and pretending to have a clean slate is the only way Lance has to deal with this entire clusterfuck of feelings and mistakes that defines so much of what they mean to each other. Somewhere, part of him knows it's not true but the thought lingers, twisting and venomous.
He'd rather take on the Archean's task and bear the meteor for the rest of eternity than turn and face Lance right now, even if he knows he'll have to eventually. ]
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For one heart stopping moment Tal looks over his shoulder, his expression utterly betrayed, deeply wounded and then he looks sharply away again. His breath comes out ragged, his shoulders shake a little. No, they're somewhere else. Maybe Lance has forgotten, maybe they used that memory wipe stuff on him like they had on Red and Stan. There's plenty of explanations that make sense.
But there's still a voice in the back of his mind that whispers that he's ruined everything and pretending to have a clean slate is the only way Lance has to deal with this entire clusterfuck of feelings and mistakes that defines so much of what they mean to each other. Somewhere, part of him knows it's not true but the thought lingers, twisting and venomous.
He'd rather take on the Archean's task and bear the meteor for the rest of eternity than turn and face Lance right now, even if he knows he'll have to eventually. ]
I...I thought so...