[Garrus looks down when he's done reading. He'd shot himself in the foot before even trying to get started. Of course. What does he even say? Noh's angry, and if Garrus had been being pestered, he'd be angry too. He is a tiny bit vexed, though. What he'd said about his scar, what he'd said about options and sleeping with people, that had been in bed. It should have stayed private.]
As a small, completely useless defense, what Adrien did there pisses me off too.
[This is why he doesn't open up. He gives it a try, and then Arbuckal takes something disclosed in private and runs with it. Garrus wears his scar on his face; he generally tries to not wear his insecurity about it. Adrien hadn't even warned Garrus about what he'd done. At least Garrus had known Ino was pestering the Kree.]
I...
[He closes his eyes and looks away. Might as well just get it all out there. Noh wants to be told, Garrus will tell him and it'll be done.]
Plan was casual. When you looked at me in the rec room, after Loki made a bolt for it, I thought there was... Thought I saw something. Ino messaged me about the way we were joking on the blackglass and I mentioned it. And I started thinking. And seeing you more often, and thinking more. And then I decided that if I was going to ask you... anything, that I needed to find out where the other part of the equation stood on it. Warriorhead. Did that this morning.
[Opening his eyes, Garrus pushes himself back up, dusting sand off his leggings. Time to make this as painless as possible. Maybe he can still retain the friendship if he gives Noh-Varr a few days to cool off.]
Wanted to make sure that if I tried courting you too I wasn't committing suicide for me and my world. But it sounds like that didn't even have to be a concern. I've already told Ino to stop while I was getting my head together. I'll talk to Arbuckal. And I don't have a reason to message Warriorhead again.
You were clear. I made it a mess, and I'm sorry. I'll, [He jerks his head to the side, indicating back toward the city proper,] let you be and make sure you're not pestered about it again, yeah?
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As a small, completely useless defense, what Adrien did there pisses me off too.
[This is why he doesn't open up. He gives it a try, and then Arbuckal takes something disclosed in private and runs with it. Garrus wears his scar on his face; he generally tries to not wear his insecurity about it. Adrien hadn't even warned Garrus about what he'd done. At least Garrus had known Ino was pestering the Kree.]
I...
[He closes his eyes and looks away. Might as well just get it all out there. Noh wants to be told, Garrus will tell him and it'll be done.]
Plan was casual. When you looked at me in the rec room, after Loki made a bolt for it, I thought there was... Thought I saw something. Ino messaged me about the way we were joking on the blackglass and I mentioned it. And I started thinking. And seeing you more often, and thinking more. And then I decided that if I was going to ask you... anything, that I needed to find out where the other part of the equation stood on it. Warriorhead. Did that this morning.
[Opening his eyes, Garrus pushes himself back up, dusting sand off his leggings. Time to make this as painless as possible. Maybe he can still retain the friendship if he gives Noh-Varr a few days to cool off.]
Wanted to make sure that if I tried courting you too I wasn't committing suicide for me and my world. But it sounds like that didn't even have to be a concern. I've already told Ino to stop while I was getting my head together. I'll talk to Arbuckal. And I don't have a reason to message Warriorhead again.
You were clear. I made it a mess, and I'm sorry. I'll, [He jerks his head to the side, indicating back toward the city proper,] let you be and make sure you're not pestered about it again, yeah?