There's a version of Alec that would know enough to pretend to flinch under the thoughtfulness of John's more-than-human gaze. This version meets the balefulness of the floating coronal ring with a lesser kind of thoughtfulness, the pale blue as shallow as the black is deep.
"Likewise." Alec smiles like any mildly obnoxious teenage boy might smile. "Unless you get bit first."
He walks out of the diner with a slight saunter, brightening his smile as he goes past the once-more oblivious waiter. He'll be halfway back to the hotel when he realizes he didn't ask for the stranger's name, and sitting on the front desk when it occurs to him that he probably should have. Oh, well.
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"Likewise." Alec smiles like any mildly obnoxious teenage boy might smile. "Unless you get bit first."
He walks out of the diner with a slight saunter, brightening his smile as he goes past the once-more oblivious waiter. He'll be halfway back to the hotel when he realizes he didn't ask for the stranger's name, and sitting on the front desk when it occurs to him that he probably should have. Oh, well.