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Date: 2022-02-04 02:46 am (UTC)
arclightning: (thinking | eyebrow raised)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
You're evading the question.

[ Mako says dryly, watching him. This really wasn't at all the point but now he's so intrigued. The more evasive Bolin gets—especially after that long and very pointed pause—the more important the thing probably is. No way is Mako giving up. ]

Bolin, come on, just talk to me.

Date: 2022-02-06 12:36 am (UTC)
arclightning: (what | don't you dare)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
[ It

was

Mako's reaction—which is to stop swirling the pancake he's working on now and just kind of stare for a second, wide-eyed and empty-headed—probably gives away that he did not in fact know what the Lance Situation was until this exact moment. It takes his brain a long, long time to come back to itself, flare to life like fire catching, and then inform him that his pancake is burning.

Hurriedly, clearing his throat, Mako flips and waves his hand to pull the heat down on the stove, and only then does he fully turn to look at Bolin.
]

You, uh.

You kissed Lance. Lance... Lance. The one we know. Here.

Date: 2022-02-06 03:02 am (UTC)
arclightning: (theories | makes no sense)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
[ Mako... just kind of flips his pancake in silence.

Does that mean.

Is Bolin...?
]

So.

You, uh.

[ Mako swallows. ]

You don't... want to talk about that. At all.

Date: 2022-02-06 03:34 pm (UTC)
arclightning: (talking | that can't be right)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
[ Mako listens with the patience of an older brother who has spent a lot of time listening to Bolin reason through his own thoughts aloud. He slides the most recent, slightly-burnt pancake onto the pile, turns off the stove, flips around to lean against it, and listens.

And it... hurts. Just a little, like a splinter in a finger. Not because Bolin didn't tell him, but because Mako understands so well the confusion of poking your foot into that space, unsure, waiting to be proven wrong or proven right and kind of afraid of both outcomes. The light that comes with understanding yourself can be a searing thing, illuminating curves you didn't know you had and maybe didn't want. It sucks. It's hard.

And Bolin thinks he needs to come to Mako with surety and facts instead of uncertainty and questions. That hurts a little too, but Mako swallows that, makes himself listen instead.

For once, he doesn't have to think about what to say.
]

It doesn't have to be a false alarm, bro. Maybe it is. Maybe it's not, but.

It's okay. That you don't know.

[ Mako shrugs, casual and easy, and steps forward to lean on the island instead, watching Bolin. ]

I didn't.

Date: 2022-02-06 06:00 pm (UTC)
arclightning: (unsure | awkward | what?)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
[ Well that's. That's good, considering what Mako actually brought Bolin over to tell him. That's probably a perfect segue, if Bolin is looking for an out, if Mako wants to let him take it.

Does he?

Because Bolin doesn't just keep things like this to himself unless they're really bothering him. Maybe that's not strictly true anymore: they're adults, Bolin is his own person, Mako isn't going to always know every detail of his life, and it isn't like he told Bolin about his own secret thoughts shoved firmly into the back of his head.

Huh.

Mako swallows and pulls the lid off a pot at the back of the stove full of bubbling rice porridge. Might as well dish up brunch while he talks about this still-very-hard stuff.
]

Kind... of. If I'm really honest with myself, the... being into guys stuff isn't really new. I just didn't, you know. I figured... I had other stuff to worry about, so I didn't think about it, and it wasn't like you could just do that so I ignored it whenever it came up but, uh.

[ Spirits this is still so hard to talk about, maybe he needs to talk about this more? Or... less? Never? Ugh. Mako clears his throat. ]

Let's just say. I met Wu, and I didn't know even then, and then when I admitted I was into him a lot of things about myself that didn't make sense suddenly did, but it wasn't like I didn't know before. I just didn't let myself know. If that... makes any sense at all.

Date: 2022-02-07 12:13 am (UTC)
arclightning: (soft smile | actually impressed)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
We can start now.

[ Mako offers: an olivenut branch, or something like it. He offers, at the same time, a bowl full of congee topped with some chili oil and some pickles he made back in the fall. The plate of pancakes goes into the center of the bar, followed by a plate and chopsticks for both of them. To top it all off, Mako piles a few leftover mochi into a bowl and then, finally, rounds the island to sit by Bolin.

Zuko is already sliding down off Bolin's shoulders to try and steal a mochi.
]

Right now. I didn't actually invite you over to make you tell me about, you know. Kissing people.

Date: 2022-02-07 01:50 am (UTC)
arclightning: (awkward | oh no)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
[ Zuko, entirely put-out by Bolin's successful dragon-shooing, tries to slink around the palm of his hand while he's distracted and while Mako is distracting himself piling things onto his own bowl of congee. He already has plenty of toppings but obviously it also needs sesame seeds and no that is not just because he's suddenly extremely and obviously nervous. ]

It's... actually about Wu. And... me.

Date: 2022-02-08 01:26 am (UTC)
arclightning: (awkward | confused | uh oh)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
[ Here we go. Mako doesn't even register Zuko absolutely decimating a mochi. He's just stirring his congee, watching red oil mix with the rice, with his heart in his throat. ]

You, uh. Heard anything about the weird rituals around bonding in this city?

Date: 2022-02-08 02:40 am (UTC)
arclightning: (talking | it can't be that bad)
From: [personal profile] arclightning
...myself.

[ Super smooth, Mako. He picks up a spoonful of steaming congee and does absolutely nothing with it. Even Zuko stops munching her mochi to look between the two of them, her ears up and alert. ]

Uh. To Wu.

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