And if you call, I will answer And if you fall, I'll pick you up And if you court this disaster I'll point you home.
[He can't - quite - hold back the song as he gets to his feet. Not approaching, just...standing there, fingers touching the table as he stares at Mephisto's back, and then his face as he turns. Stephen's own gaze is focused, intent; he licks dry lips, swallowing down any further song to speak]
Tell me it's just fascination and I'll handle the rest on my end. [He can take being turned down. He can't take giving everything without anything to sustain himself.] Because if it is, then it doesn't matter what I feel- and I'm not going to let it break me. I can deal with it.
[You aren't going to fall apart on me, are you? Mephisto had asked him not long ago. And he won't. He won't do it to himself, he won't allow it to happen.
But he needs to know, he's realizing. He needs to know, at least at this point, where he stands - for certain. No more assumptions. If this is just all a matter of games, or if there's something there.]
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And if you fall, I'll pick you up
And if you court this disaster
I'll point you home.
[He can't - quite - hold back the song as he gets to his feet. Not approaching, just...standing there, fingers touching the table as he stares at Mephisto's back, and then his face as he turns. Stephen's own gaze is focused, intent; he licks dry lips, swallowing down any further song to speak]
Tell me it's just fascination and I'll handle the rest on my end. [He can take being turned down. He can't take giving everything without anything to sustain himself.] Because if it is, then it doesn't matter what I feel- and I'm not going to let it break me. I can deal with it.
[You aren't going to fall apart on me, are you? Mephisto had asked him not long ago. And he won't. He won't do it to himself, he won't allow it to happen.
But he needs to know, he's realizing. He needs to know, at least at this point, where he stands - for certain. No more assumptions. If this is just all a matter of games, or if there's something there.]