He scoffs as he pulls a box of cigarettes from his pocket and lights one. Of course Dorian would get threatened and choose to stay with someone anyway. That's just his fucking luck. Thanks, multiverse, you've done it again with shitting on him while he's already down! Toby shakes his head and stuffs the pack back in his pocket as he starts to pace the length of the bedroom.
"Someone's getting hurt no matter what any of us do, Dorian." That feels important to say, as the man seems to believe there's a way for them all to just go about all this as if no one had ever felt put upon or hurt by another. As if it isn't already obvious that he's hurting because of Dorian's actions as part of all this. The vampire sighs, exhaling a cloud of smoke as he stops just outside the other man's field of view.
"You want this to be easy, and that isn't possible. You asked for this complicated situation, because you didn't want to choose when I came back." He understands why that happened, and he agreed to the arrangement, but he never said he liked it. "Now things are escalating, and you can't ignore that anymore."
Feelings are always complicated. Attachments to others are fraught with difficulties and challenges. Toby avoided them for decades for this very reason. Funny how the multiverse decided to give him a fucking soulmate to challenge that.
The vampire takes another long drag from his cigarette before he continues. "I'm not saying you should do something immediately or without a plan, but you've got to take ownership of your part in all this. I'm upset," more than, but that's beside the point, "about not getting a real choice in this, but you've consistently assumed things were fine to avoid this very conversation. That won't work anymore, and you need to decide what you really want. Whether that's making whatever this... thing is that includes Amartolosa work or something else entirely, you have to choose."
He can't make that choice for his soulmate. God, he wishes he could to make this easier for the both of them, but no ultimatum is - or ever would - make that work. He loves Dorian more than he could possibly explain, even to his own detriment at times, and that means he has to let the man decide what makes sense for him.
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"Someone's getting hurt no matter what any of us do, Dorian." That feels important to say, as the man seems to believe there's a way for them all to just go about all this as if no one had ever felt put upon or hurt by another. As if it isn't already obvious that he's hurting because of Dorian's actions as part of all this. The vampire sighs, exhaling a cloud of smoke as he stops just outside the other man's field of view.
"You want this to be easy, and that isn't possible. You asked for this complicated situation, because you didn't want to choose when I came back." He understands why that happened, and he agreed to the arrangement, but he never said he liked it. "Now things are escalating, and you can't ignore that anymore."
Feelings are always complicated. Attachments to others are fraught with difficulties and challenges. Toby avoided them for decades for this very reason. Funny how the multiverse decided to give him a fucking soulmate to challenge that.
The vampire takes another long drag from his cigarette before he continues. "I'm not saying you should do something immediately or without a plan, but you've got to take ownership of your part in all this. I'm upset," more than, but that's beside the point, "about not getting a real choice in this, but you've consistently assumed things were fine to avoid this very conversation. That won't work anymore, and you need to decide what you really want. Whether that's making whatever this... thing is that includes Amartolosa work or something else entirely, you have to choose."
He can't make that choice for his soulmate. God, he wishes he could to make this easier for the both of them, but no ultimatum is - or ever would - make that work. He loves Dorian more than he could possibly explain, even to his own detriment at times, and that means he has to let the man decide what makes sense for him.