One valuable lesson that he has learned in his 1,057 years is that those words never, ever bode well for at least one party involved. Based on the expression on Josh's face right now and adding in the fact that he was the one who had been knocking (probably incessantly) on his door this night (morning), that party was probably going to end up being him.
Outside of the not-so-mild rise of panic in his head, Hikaru's pursing his lips, and his hand is clenching none too subtly around the doorknob. The look on his face may be unreadable, but the look in his eyes is darkening fast. It's not anger, no. It's probably worse than that for him.
Fighting for calm now. Yes. There. (Hopefully it'll hold.)]
And it has to be now.
[It isn't a question.
He really, really doesn't want to do this here. He doesn't know exactly where this is going to go and - for once in his life - he doesn't want to guess, but that he's pretty sure that letting Josh into his room might end up being a Really Bad Idea (because he can't trust himself enough to hold strong and not slip up).]
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Well.
One valuable lesson that he has learned in his 1,057 years is that those words never, ever bode well for at least one party involved. Based on the expression on Josh's face right now and adding in the fact that he was the one who had been knocking (probably incessantly) on his door this night (morning), that party was probably going to end up being him.
Outside of the not-so-mild rise of panic in his head, Hikaru's pursing his lips, and his hand is clenching none too subtly around the doorknob. The look on his face may be unreadable, but the look in his eyes is darkening fast. It's not anger, no. It's probably worse than that for him.
Fighting for calm now. Yes. There. (Hopefully it'll hold.)]
And it has to be now.
[It isn't a question.
He really, really doesn't want to do this here. He doesn't know exactly where this is going to go and - for once in his life - he doesn't want to guess, but that he's pretty sure that letting Josh into his room might end up being a Really Bad Idea (because he can't trust himself enough to hold strong and not slip up).]