He'd enjoyed finding excuses for them to spend nearly every morning together. It was the kind of socializing they should have done from the start, vaguely reminiscent of their lab debates, but with more honesty and compromise. Newt was pretty sure he'd started it because he was obsessed with befriending Hermann, and somewhere in there he fell in love with the man. Or re-fell. Newt wasn't wholly convinced now that he hadn't been a little in love with Hermann all along.
What a revelation that was.
"You make me sound so much more romantic and terrible than I was. Professing my undying love. God. How gay. I did nothing like that. Telling your long-term lab partner you want to be with him forever, through sickness and in health, is perfectly normal, alright? God. Can't a guy propose lifelong codependency without being accused of professing his undying love? You make it sound like a shojo anime."
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He'd enjoyed finding excuses for them to spend nearly every morning together. It was the kind of socializing they should have done from the start, vaguely reminiscent of their lab debates, but with more honesty and compromise. Newt was pretty sure he'd started it because he was obsessed with befriending Hermann, and somewhere in there he fell in love with the man. Or re-fell. Newt wasn't wholly convinced now that he hadn't been a little in love with Hermann all along.
What a revelation that was.
"You make me sound so much more romantic and terrible than I was. Professing my undying love. God. How gay. I did nothing like that. Telling your long-term lab partner you want to be with him forever, through sickness and in health, is perfectly normal, alright? God. Can't a guy propose lifelong codependency without being accused of professing his undying love? You make it sound like a shojo anime."