Edgar flinched at Neil's reaction, his face quickly morphing between confusion, hurt, annoyance, and then cycling back to one of the others. A part of him wanted to ask what the big deal was. Marriage wouldn't really change anything for any of them. They would wake up together and go to bed together and if there was some kind of declaration in between, would that really change how things ended? They'd already been through so many versions of hell that this seemed like the least dramatic part of it. Of course they should get married. They practically already were
Another part of him felt a little distanced, broken, at his lack of intense reaction. If he'd grown up normally, hadn't been penned into the Tail, maybe he would understand and be as excited and nervous as the others.
Grantaire launched into one of his explanations and it was sincere, slightly graceless, and made Edgar's heart squeezed. Putting it like that made it seem a little more important, making it a declaration. He liked the sound of it, the chance to show the world, but he still couldn't understand the alarm either.
"You've both already got me," he said, finding the thing he did understand and know to be completely true. "If you want to put that on paper, I don't see why I'd not want to. Not with the both of you."
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Another part of him felt a little distanced, broken, at his lack of intense reaction. If he'd grown up normally, hadn't been penned into the Tail, maybe he would understand and be as excited and nervous as the others.
Grantaire launched into one of his explanations and it was sincere, slightly graceless, and made Edgar's heart squeezed. Putting it like that made it seem a little more important, making it a declaration. He liked the sound of it, the chance to show the world, but he still couldn't understand the alarm either.
"You've both already got me," he said, finding the thing he did understand and know to be completely true. "If you want to put that on paper, I don't see why I'd not want to. Not with the both of you."