"I like being your long-term plan," he said, breaking apart the pieces of orange and eating one with a cheeky grin that was meant to cover his anxiety. "But I want you to know, I'll marry you again and again, if I have to. I will marriage-counsel the hell out of you or marry you again, because I'd rather scream at you for five years than not talk to you for three again. That is MY long-term plan, to just...not let you go again."
He broke off another piece and held it out in front of Hermann's face, so he wouldn't have to get oniony hands on it if he wanted to eat the orange slice.
"I mean, we have 'irreversibly altered one another'--wasn't that what you said? That's exactly what you said, what you wrote. I can't very well let you go now, huh? Besides, you have to admit, that was pretty romantic. You could count 'telling a relative stranger that you and I are sort of soulmates' on your tally of courting achievements. A point...half-a-point, at least. It counts." And not just because he wanted to add to Hermann's tally to expedite marriage, but because it was a pretty sweet way to describe their relationship--romantic or otherwise--and surprising, and Newt had been touched. And Hermann deserved to know that, even if Newt had sort of told him so already.
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"I like being your long-term plan," he said, breaking apart the pieces of orange and eating one with a cheeky grin that was meant to cover his anxiety. "But I want you to know, I'll marry you again and again, if I have to. I will marriage-counsel the hell out of you or marry you again, because I'd rather scream at you for five years than not talk to you for three again. That is MY long-term plan, to just...not let you go again."
He broke off another piece and held it out in front of Hermann's face, so he wouldn't have to get oniony hands on it if he wanted to eat the orange slice.
"I mean, we have 'irreversibly altered one another'--wasn't that what you said? That's exactly what you said, what you wrote. I can't very well let you go now, huh? Besides, you have to admit, that was pretty romantic. You could count 'telling a relative stranger that you and I are sort of soulmates' on your tally of courting achievements. A point...half-a-point, at least. It counts." And not just because he wanted to add to Hermann's tally to expedite marriage, but because it was a pretty sweet way to describe their relationship--romantic or otherwise--and surprising, and Newt had been touched. And Hermann deserved to know that, even if Newt had sort of told him so already.