A Re-introduction

[she_is_france]

There is a young man sitting in the kitchen. It would be difficult to say how long he’s been there - he is very quiet, very still, very intent on the thick book in front of him

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[baldlaigle]

"And where have you been?" Bossuet asks, grinning.

[she_is_france]

"I could ask you," Enjolras says, with a small twitch of his mouth that is the embryonic stages of an embarrassingly lopsided smile, "But I know better. I've been about."

[baldlaigle]

"We've missed you." And Bossuet will now be grabbing him and hugging him, regardless of whether or not it is just plain strange to grab and hug Enjolras. Bossuet has never claimed sanity, after all.

[she_is_france]

Enjolras goes very still and stiff because yes, indeed, he was not in the slightest expecting that, and he does have his dignity, after all - !

"...Bossuet," he says, after a surprised moment, "Let go."

[baldlaigle]

"No," he says, very simply.

[she_is_france]

"Let go," Enjolras says, frost in his voice now.

[baldlaigle]

And that is the cue to back off, so Bossuet releases him carefully. "Terribly sorry for being glad to see you. I shan't do it again."

[she_is_france]

Enjolras gives him a look, more wry than angry, though with a certain exasperation in it, and says, "You're trying to make me feel guilty."

His muscles and joints were locked. Now they are relaxing, and the change is, in places, subtly visible.

[baldlaigle]

"Of course I am. You should feel guilty, for that."