nonscriptum: Sully's butt is the downfall of this team (once again)
𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚔𝚎 ([personal profile] nonscriptum) wrote 2020-07-23 02:34 pm (UTC)

[ There's no reason to hide the fact that he looks because Stephen is a friend - or Nate likes to think he is, it isn't as though they've had an exchange about it - and some modicum of candor is a requisite part of healthy relationships, or so Nate has heard when over-analyzing his own proclivity to hide parts of himself. The smile does nothing to make him more comfortable; all it serves to do is reinforce how patently weird the circumstances are, as if it were a normal occurrence in the history of their knowing each other for Stephen to be so oddly carefree instead of overburdened with responsibility.

Maybe it's overcompensation for something else. Maybe he's just finally crawling back out of a depressive funk. Nate isn't a fucking clinical psychologist.
]

Against what?

[ He inquires lightly over his tumbler, relaxing into the bench as though he doesn't want to ask who are you and what have you done with Stephen Strange? ]

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