He terminated the call.. It was too personal, too intimate to stay. He would have wanted the same if he were Miles...
So that was...
Miles was in love with Gregor. Belatedly, he realized, that was what Newt had been right about, though at the time he had forgotten they were functioning under the impression that he was even wrong. But Miles and Gregor's relationship was deeper and more intimate than Newt had guessed, and even if Gregor was not in love with Miles, he did love him, clearly, a lot more than Newt thought the quiet, reserved man was capable of. They were Drift Partners, he had known, but now he could see the Partnership between the Drifters. It changed how he perceived their previous interactions, how he understood that spy plot, why, perhaps, Miles was not included.
Most of Newt's initial impressions of closed-off Gregor could now be chalked up to his aristocratic background, and a quiet and subdued personality that was the kind Newt had never found very accessible to him. He had failed to understand Gregor as he had failed to understand Hermann.
That should not have been his takeaway, these feelings, not when there were royal bloodlines and not!clones (he needed to tell Hermann) and something with Lucifer to consider, but it was.
He was a poor empathizer, but here he was stewing in empathy for Miles, for his unrequited love for his friend (the emperor, in some sort of god-awful societal drama and clash of duty and expectation that was probably worthy of a painfully restrained classic British or laborious Russian novel), as Hermann opened the door. Newt leapt up the help relieve him of some bags.
"You should have called. I would have come down to the lobby to help you."
March 12, 2016 - following the talk with Miles and Greg
So that was...
Miles was in love with Gregor. Belatedly, he realized, that was what Newt had been right about, though at the time he had forgotten they were functioning under the impression that he was even wrong. But Miles and Gregor's relationship was deeper and more intimate than Newt had guessed, and even if Gregor was not in love with Miles, he did love him, clearly, a lot more than Newt thought the quiet, reserved man was capable of. They were Drift Partners, he had known, but now he could see the Partnership between the Drifters. It changed how he perceived their previous interactions, how he understood that spy plot, why, perhaps, Miles was not included.
Most of Newt's initial impressions of closed-off Gregor could now be chalked up to his aristocratic background, and a quiet and subdued personality that was the kind Newt had never found very accessible to him. He had failed to understand Gregor as he had failed to understand Hermann.
That should not have been his takeaway, these feelings, not when there were royal bloodlines and not!clones (he needed to tell Hermann) and something with Lucifer to consider, but it was.
He was a poor empathizer, but here he was stewing in empathy for Miles, for his unrequited love for his friend (the emperor, in some sort of god-awful societal drama and clash of duty and expectation that was probably worthy of a painfully restrained classic British or laborious Russian novel), as Hermann opened the door. Newt leapt up the help relieve him of some bags.
"You should have called. I would have come down to the lobby to help you."