[There's the immediate, of course. The desire to know what it is that's caused Stephen to react like this, the detail of what he's been sitting on for a while and how it would crumple him in the wake of just one man's arrival. But more, wider, another aspect Takeshi has to acknowledge now: he wants to know everything about him.
Clear in his eyes and the hand that remains at his face, thumb repeating that stroke across his skin, though, is that it's only if Stephen wants to. Only if he can bear it.]
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[There's the immediate, of course. The desire to know what it is that's caused Stephen to react like this, the detail of what he's been sitting on for a while and how it would crumple him in the wake of just one man's arrival. But more, wider, another aspect Takeshi has to acknowledge now: he wants to know everything about him.
Clear in his eyes and the hand that remains at his face, thumb repeating that stroke across his skin, though, is that it's only if Stephen wants to. Only if he can bear it.]