Caritas, Sunday

[suitably_heroic]

There were an unnecessary amount of rainbow-colored flowers around Caritas. No amount of grumping from Atton aboud how Pride had been yesterday could stop them from spreading.

Eventually, he gave up. Pulled up a stool and sat down, crossing his arms at them.

Whatever. He didn't care.

He was fine.

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[suitably_heroic]

"Too? Together?" Atton said finally, sighing.

[myownface]

"Hmmmmm," Sparkle hummed in understanding. "She knows her up from her down. Meanwhile, life has been grabbing you by the ankles and shaking you down for lunch money for fucking years. So... Is it that you feel she's judging you? Or that she can do better? Or what?"

[suitably_heroic]

"I don't think she's judging me," Atton said, waving that off. "It's just like, imagine you know someone who always wears white, and yet they never get any stains on that. Ever. And you, a normal human being who sometimes spills his soup or forgets how to pick up a coffee cup like a person in the morning, are fine with that. It's a little weird, but whatever, it's their bag."

A beat.

"And then you share an apartment for a few days-- okay, this one is getting away from me-- look, imagine you know someone like that, and suddenly these reasons keep popping up to have intense discussions about washing clothes, and you start to notice."

[myownface]

"Hard to miss that she's got-her-shit-together-incarnate when it's right there in contrast to you?"

Sparkle smiled wryly, reached for his drink again, and lifted it in a small toast.

"That, I get."

Story of his life. He had just stopped stealing forks in order to cope with it. Mostly.

[suitably_heroic]

"So yes, talking to her about it is the absolute last thing I want to do, because she's going to be rational and together and I'll have to go and scream about it somewhere in peace," said Atton.

Who most definitely had a well-documented and long-running habit of feeling deeply inferior to women he liked.

[myownface]

"... Okay, but... She's not gonna stop being Sia. You know that, right?"

And Atton would be Atton.

"But, like, she knows you. Will probably get that that's the case, even."