[…he loses it. Any semblance of control or maturity that he was grasping in this conversation is gone out the window and his hands fly forward, gripping onto Nico's shoulders rather tightly and blatantly ignoring the other boy's "no-touching" rule. Fingers dig into bony, far-too-thing shoulders and he shakes, shakes him hard enough to whiplash him a bit as he fixes him with a hard, angry look.]
Are you listening to yourself? [Whoops, let's not yell. Tone it done to "really displeased." He leans in closer, putting them so they're practically nose to nose as words tumble out faster than he can catch himself.] Are you listening to yourself? You can't--that's not fair, Nico, and you know it! You didn't get me involved. I got me involved because I told you I would. That's not how this works! You don't get to choose what is and isn't your fault. [His grip tightens further, but at least he's not trying to knock more sense into him.] I don't care. Whatever it is, I don't care because I'm going to make this work. I'm not giving up on you, okay?
[…and he stops because…because…well. He looks briefly stunned at the particular phrasing and he pulls his face back though his grip doesn't loosen.]
…there's a lot of stuff that can go wrong, but we're doing it anyway. Don't you get it? We're part of a team now. You can't be just watching out for my own safety. Who's going to look after you if I don't do this, too? [There's a deep breath as he finally calms down a little.] I knew there was a risk going to see Shuck with you and I did it anyway. You have to trust me. And yourself.
[It dawns on him that there's still an audience the moment he hears Loki chime in and he tilts his head back to look at him. There's…a very strange combination of emotions in his expression at the moment, a little too hard to pinpoint as just one. He knows he's only human and that that's his fatal flaw, but so what? The monarchs brought him here, too. He would get better.]
Loki's right. [Weirdly enough.] …and Nico's right, too, I guess. I don't have anything to fight ghosts with but I have a feeling you know exactly what we can use to help us.
[He knows he's going to owe Loki a very, very long explanation. That can come with time. This was more important.]
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Are you listening to yourself? [Whoops, let's not yell. Tone it done to "really displeased." He leans in closer, putting them so they're practically nose to nose as words tumble out faster than he can catch himself.] Are you listening to yourself? You can't--that's not fair, Nico, and you know it! You didn't get me involved. I got me involved because I told you I would. That's not how this works! You don't get to choose what is and isn't your fault. [His grip tightens further, but at least he's not trying to knock more sense into him.] I don't care. Whatever it is, I don't care because I'm going to make this work. I'm not giving up on you, okay?
[…and he stops because…because…well. He looks briefly stunned at the particular phrasing and he pulls his face back though his grip doesn't loosen.]
…there's a lot of stuff that can go wrong, but we're doing it anyway. Don't you get it? We're part of a team now. You can't be just watching out for my own safety. Who's going to look after you if I don't do this, too? [There's a deep breath as he finally calms down a little.] I knew there was a risk going to see Shuck with you and I did it anyway. You have to trust me. And yourself.
[It dawns on him that there's still an audience the moment he hears Loki chime in and he tilts his head back to look at him. There's…a very strange combination of emotions in his expression at the moment, a little too hard to pinpoint as just one. He knows he's only human and that that's his fatal flaw, but so what? The monarchs brought him here, too. He would get better.]
Loki's right. [Weirdly enough.] …and Nico's right, too, I guess. I don't have anything to fight ghosts with but I have a feeling you know exactly what we can use to help us.
[He knows he's going to owe Loki a very, very long explanation. That can come with time. This was more important.]