mallowhallow | Joint post | Balfour showing off Amery

_{[It sure didn’t take long after Amery’s first post for the feed to come on again, this time showing a beaming face. Well, actually two faces, but Balfour was beaming, his arms wrapped around Amery’s shoulders from behind as he showed him the broadcasting device. He held it in one hand and grinned out to the public.]}

Hey everyone! I know I’ve mentioned him before, but this is my brother, Amery! Say hi!

_{[He nudges Amery, intent on his brother making a good impression among his new friends.]}

Hello.

[Amery doesn’t look nearly as happy about this as his brother does, but he’s dealing with it. If only because it’s Balfour.]

It seems my brother has been sharing stories about me in my absence.

Of course I have! You’re my brother!

_{[So obviously, Balfour would be telling tales. He adored and looked up to Amery, after all.]}

Anyway, I just wanted everyone to know who he was. Please treat him kindly!

_{[And that goes for you too, Amery.]}

Balfour, though I appreciate the gesture, I do believe I’ll be capable of dealing with people whether or not they decide to treat me kindly.

_{[Balfour sighs, looking at the man he’s draped over for a moment.]}

Amery--

_{[But whatever else he was going to say is lost. He kills the feed just as he begins that sentence. Privacy was a valued thing for Amery, after all. Balfour knew this.]}

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It is something similar to friendly. Ah, but you can't exactly relate 'friendly' with my brother. He has a strange way of being so aloof...

_{[So calm all the time. It's lovely.]}

He speaks his own language, I think.

_{[Sappy ass smile. Have it.]}

Oh, right. [Well that was simple enough.]

Sounds like he'd be a little hard to get along with, sometimes.

Oh, he is. He truly does speak his own language. It takes a long time to get used to him, but once you do... He's the best brother.

_{[He laughs, beaming as he speaks of his brother. Sure, Amery wasn't very good at being a brother, but that didn't mean that Balfour didn't think he was an awesome one.]}

That's good. I mean, that you care about him and you've got him here and all. Family is important. [He smiled.]

_{[He rubs his face, just realizing how hard this had to be for Dyme. It really couldn't be easy, with him rubbing it in his face like this.]}

Bastion. I'm sorry. I'll be quiet about it now. And 'family'... It depends on how you define that.

Hey, don't worry about it; I'm a big boy, I can handle it. If I was going to get my panties all twisted up about this I wouldn't have said anything in the first place.

[Really, he was genuinely happy for Balfour. He didn't want the guy to feel bad about gushing about his brother just because Dyme's brother still was, and probably always would be, dead.]

Well, the people that are there for you, at least. You know, the people you'd do anything for cause you love 'em that much.

Sometimes blood relatives are a giant pain in the ass, though. [He shrugged.]

That is true.

_{[He laughs softly. Yeah, Dyme knew better than most just how much Balfour's blood relatives sucked, at least his parents. Still, it was nice to be able to talk about it without worrying too much.]}

Friends matter. A lot.

They do.

[Not that...Dyme would really know. He only had one real friend back home, and only one person here that he considered a friend so far. He wasn't used to having friends, wasn't used to having someone there for him when he needed it.]

So, you gonna make up for all of that lost time?

You bet! This is the first time I've seen him in years.

_{[He laughs and beams, tucking a lock of hair back away from his face.]}

Good. I hope things go better for you here than...you know.

[He knew the feeling; he would be the same way if Nyckel showed up here.]

Honestly, if he doesn't die, it will already be better.

_{[He smiles, thinks, and then blows a kiss at Dyme, just showing affection. And yeah, okay, sometimes his brain gets a little confused.]}

Well, I doubt he will. [Dyme laughed a little.] So I guess that means things'll just keep getting better.

[Oh. Gosh. Well, that was cute. He grinned.]

Careful, someone might think you're trying to flirt with me.

[His tone was light and teasing.]

_{[Do you like tomatoes? Because you have one on your hands now. Balfour blushed really red and shook his head, holding his hands up.]}

No, no, I wasn't. I swear. I was just trying to--

_{[How did he explain that these things sucked because he can't hug?]}

It's not like I can hug you right now!

_{[Well that would have to work.]}

[Awwww, but Balfour blushing was really adorable, and it made Dyme laugh.]

I'm just teasing you; I know you weren't flirting.

You're pretty cute when you're blushing though.

[See, that was flirting. Playful and lighthearted, but still. He knew that Balfour was taken. He wasn't going to try anything serious.]

Eh?

_{[He really wasn't used to people flirting with him. Even Reid didn't do it a lot, and he was his boyfriend. Needless to say, he wasn't sure how to handle it.

At all.

He gave Dyme a very confused look.]}

[Dyme laughed.]

It's alright; don't worry about it.

[Balfour was a good guy, and Dyme shouldn't be flirting with him in the first place anyway.]

_{[Balfour laughed and shrugged.]}

I'm not really used to that. Sorry...

Joint post | Balfour showing off Amery

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