"Aww, d'ya miss him?" Gabriel teased. He knew full well that when Dominic was upset he tended to eat everything in sight. "It's only been three days!"
"Stop it," Dominic mumbled, elbowing his father in the side playfully.
Adorable. I love how close they are.
"We love our church," Wayne replied, "and we won't allow it to be sullied with the presence of a gay man."
When people say things like that, I honestly wonder whether they can hear themselves. It's so hard not to lash out at them for it, but it's not even a matter of BELIEF, that sentiment -- that's a lack of logic. Or else, a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "love" or the idea of a "church," for damn sure...
The young man who was looking after his little brother while he was ill, because he was choosing to, not because he was expected to. The young man who slept at his sick mother's bedside for the last two weeks of her life. The young man who wanted nothing more than for Matthew's dog to like him.
I love that Gabriel knows him so well, so precisely. That detail about him worrying over Matthew's dog is the single best thing about this chapter, lol. It says everything about his nature. Makes me giggle.
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Date: 2011-01-31 03:10 am (UTC)"Aww, d'ya miss him?" Gabriel teased. He knew full well that when Dominic was upset he tended to eat everything in sight. "It's only been three days!"
"Stop it," Dominic mumbled, elbowing his father in the side playfully.
Adorable. I love how close they are.
"We love our church," Wayne replied, "and we won't allow it to be sullied with the presence of a gay man."
When people say things like that, I honestly wonder whether they can hear themselves. It's so hard not to lash out at them for it, but it's not even a matter of BELIEF, that sentiment -- that's a lack of logic. Or else, a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "love" or the idea of a "church," for damn sure...
The young man who was looking after his little brother while he was ill, because he was choosing to, not because he was expected to. The young man who slept at his sick mother's bedside for the last two weeks of her life. The young man who wanted nothing more than for Matthew's dog to like him.
I love that Gabriel knows him so well, so precisely. That detail about him worrying over Matthew's dog is the single best thing about this chapter, lol. It says everything about his nature. Makes me giggle.
Another fabulous chapter. :)