[It's easy and practiced, how he adjusts his balance and stance to compensate for Rohan hanging on to him, but tonight he takes a little longer with lingering over it — his adjustments more gentle, less methodical, less businesslike. He's always been better with tangible messages of affection than he has with verbal ones; tonight he's sending the same one over and over, that it's fine for Rohan to unwind and put himself in Jotaro's hands, because they're hands that are already ready and waiting to catch him.
And moreover, maybe he just wants this to last a little longer for his own sake, too — this moment with their mutual guards lowered, with their edges raw but their proximity like a balm to soothe it. He always feels better lately when he's got something to protect. So much the better in these rare cases that he actually knows how to get it right.
He carries Rohan back through the shop and carefully out the door, pulling it shut behind him before pausing to turn his attention to him on the shop doorstep.]
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[It's easy and practiced, how he adjusts his balance and stance to compensate for Rohan hanging on to him, but tonight he takes a little longer with lingering over it — his adjustments more gentle, less methodical, less businesslike. He's always been better with tangible messages of affection than he has with verbal ones; tonight he's sending the same one over and over, that it's fine for Rohan to unwind and put himself in Jotaro's hands, because they're hands that are already ready and waiting to catch him.
And moreover, maybe he just wants this to last a little longer for his own sake, too — this moment with their mutual guards lowered, with their edges raw but their proximity like a balm to soothe it. He always feels better lately when he's got something to protect. So much the better in these rare cases that he actually knows how to get it right.
He carries Rohan back through the shop and carefully out the door, pulling it shut behind him before pausing to turn his attention to him on the shop doorstep.]
Ready?