Leon visibly freezes at the word 'queer,' wholly unused to hearing it without any sort of malice or unease behind it. It doesn't last long, but it takes him a second to process what's been said.
"Huh, o-okay," he says, fumbling over his words slightly. His initial panicked instinct is to wonder if Angel's saying that for a reason, like Leon's somehow being obvious about it all of a sudden, but it shouldn't be an issue, right? At least not with Angel specifically, if he's so casual about it. And probably it's not anything about Leon anyway, and he's just saying that because it's come up so much.
Fuck, he's been quiet long enough that he's probably making this weird.
"That's good to hear," he adds, finally, swallowing hard and trying to make some kind of recovery if not necessarily a smooth one. "Hey, you mind if I sit here? I'm still getting my bearings, and it'd be nice to talk some of what's been going on over. No problem if you'd rather just get back to your dinner, though."
cw: discussion of queerphobia
"Huh, o-okay," he says, fumbling over his words slightly. His initial panicked instinct is to wonder if Angel's saying that for a reason, like Leon's somehow being obvious about it all of a sudden, but it shouldn't be an issue, right? At least not with Angel specifically, if he's so casual about it. And probably it's not anything about Leon anyway, and he's just saying that because it's come up so much.
Fuck, he's been quiet long enough that he's probably making this weird.
"That's good to hear," he adds, finally, swallowing hard and trying to make some kind of recovery if not necessarily a smooth one. "Hey, you mind if I sit here? I'm still getting my bearings, and it'd be nice to talk some of what's been going on over. No problem if you'd rather just get back to your dinner, though."