[ for a minute, newt just stares at him. the train's stopped rocking now, finding sort of a steady pace as they wind around another curve underneath the city streets, and though he's lost his grip on the pole he'd been holding onto, hands having jerked forward and landed on the guy's shoulder to keep from falling over, newt doesn't quite feel like he's going to fall over.
at least not physically.
mentally? mentally, he just heard him say it. "careful" is such an easy thing, the kind of word just anyone could say to another person. he'd heard it from his mother, from family, but never in that exact manner. instead, it was from a stranger, much, much shorter than him, but with dark skin and dark eyes and kind of a stocky build and he was struck, a little, by the difference between them, too. he was definitely attractive, and could he flash forward to seeing time spent with this guy? yeah. yeah, he really, really could.
his mouth tips up into kind of a crooked looking smile, and a flush comes across his cheeks, and newt doesn't move his hands, leaving them on his shoulders. he sounds stupidly breathless when he mutters, again, ] Bloody hell.
[ but the second time, it's a little reverent sounding, and his smile tips up a little more, until it squints an eye shut. ] Hullo.
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at least not physically.
mentally? mentally, he just heard him say it. "careful" is such an easy thing, the kind of word just anyone could say to another person. he'd heard it from his mother, from family, but never in that exact manner. instead, it was from a stranger, much, much shorter than him, but with dark skin and dark eyes and kind of a stocky build and he was struck, a little, by the difference between them, too. he was definitely attractive, and could he flash forward to seeing time spent with this guy? yeah. yeah, he really, really could.
his mouth tips up into kind of a crooked looking smile, and a flush comes across his cheeks, and newt doesn't move his hands, leaving them on his shoulders. he sounds stupidly breathless when he mutters, again, ] Bloody hell.
[ but the second time, it's a little reverent sounding, and his smile tips up a little more, until it squints an eye shut. ] Hullo.