[ It's fair for a question to be pointed back at him after how many he's asked himself, but with it comes something else. A warning bell rings in his mind: this is spiraling. There's a point at which asking, trying to be certain can do more damage than turning up any answers. One thing has become abundantly clear, however, and it demands one last question. ]
Do you believe I want you for something more than sleeping with you?
[ Though he's careful to ask it neutrally, even that sounds too much like an accusation when he doesn't mean it as one but an extension of the point he wants to make or to know. Keeping it just at that like it's some kind of ultimatum without being voiced as one and throwing down some sort of endpoint or what might be perceived as another prong of an elaborate trap isn't anything close to what he means to do. Quite the opposite, actually, so Claude's quick to shake his head after and keep speaking to swallow an ache he's ignoring back down. ]
It's alright if you don't because I understand I haven't exactly given you many consistent reasons to. But for me, Sylvain, all of this changed from being that a long while ago.
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Do you believe I want you for something more than sleeping with you?
[ Though he's careful to ask it neutrally, even that sounds too much like an accusation when he doesn't mean it as one but an extension of the point he wants to make or to know. Keeping it just at that like it's some kind of ultimatum without being voiced as one and throwing down some sort of endpoint or what might be perceived as another prong of an elaborate trap isn't anything close to what he means to do. Quite the opposite, actually, so Claude's quick to shake his head after and keep speaking to swallow an ache he's ignoring back down. ]
It's alright if you don't because I understand I haven't exactly given you many consistent reasons to. But for me, Sylvain, all of this changed from being that a long while ago.