That's so much all at once, but even after he covers his mouth in a desperate attempt to shut himself up, she can see how huge his eyes are, how mortified he is, and Gamora—
She didn't know he felt that way. She didn't know he'd felt that way for so long, and he'd been sitting on it since then. It took them months after Xandar to even reach the point of acknowledging so much as a thing between them, and months in the Quarantine before they even started truly doing something about that thing, and—
He's loved her that entire time?
She doesn't know what to say. She's far less inclined to be the one to say things anyway, given to the unspokenness of what they have, but—
She's not upset or alarmed or... "freaked out."
Quietly, she reaches for the hands he has over his mouth, giving a gentle tug to coax them away. ]
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Oh.
Oh.
That's so much all at once, but even after he covers his mouth in a desperate attempt to shut himself up, she can see how huge his eyes are, how mortified he is, and Gamora—
She didn't know he felt that way. She didn't know he'd felt that way for so long, and he'd been sitting on it since then. It took them months after Xandar to even reach the point of acknowledging so much as a thing between them, and months in the Quarantine before they even started truly doing something about that thing, and—
He's loved her that entire time?
She doesn't know what to say. She's far less inclined to be the one to say things anyway, given to the unspokenness of what they have, but—
She's not upset or alarmed or... "freaked out."
Quietly, she reaches for the hands he has over his mouth, giving a gentle tug to coax them away. ]