[ Never learn to expect it is totally right, because that whole thing she just did was totally not a course of action he was expecting. Maybe the physical comfort thing, on a like, lower margin of possibility, just because that's occasionally the way they roll, even when the other person is what initially caused the problem - neither one of them has enough people in their lives that mean anything and are as immediately willing to be helpful in that manner to be immediately useful. And fuck it, sometimes the person who created the damage is the one who most needs to rectify it. So, yeah, he wasn't totally expecting the cuddlefest, but it's not like he was wholly unexpecting it either.
Stripping and more questions after he so deftly deflected, though. That's different. He's not sure what to be looking at for the moment, and contents himself with a glance to watch what she's doing - totally to watch what she's doing, and there's almost not even an ulterior motive right now, which is sort of hilarious and sort of not - and then he's back to scouring her face for hints. It's not easy to bypass what she's showing him - especially since she so recently made it clear that he shouldn't be bypassing thoughts like that - but he's genuinely still not sure what to do with them. Effectively, he accepts what she's letting him see, intellectually, but while he can entertain the thoughts, it's difficult to do much more than that immediately. ]
i figured you figured i just can't not correct my mistakes
Stripping and more questions after he so deftly deflected, though. That's different. He's not sure what to be looking at for the moment, and contents himself with a glance to watch what she's doing - totally to watch what she's doing, and there's almost not even an ulterior motive right now, which is sort of hilarious and sort of not - and then he's back to scouring her face for hints. It's not easy to bypass what she's showing him - especially since she so recently made it clear that he shouldn't be bypassing thoughts like that - but he's genuinely still not sure what to do with them. Effectively, he accepts what she's letting him see, intellectually, but while he can entertain the thoughts, it's difficult to do much more than that immediately. ]
A trick question? What am I supposed to see here?