[He will snap Dick's hand if he starts preening. Dick lets go of one of his hands and Junpei promptly curls it into a loose fist to make sure his hand doesn't betray any of his feelings at the moment. As it is, he settles to listen to Dick try to figure out what to say, wholly aware he has awful timing and kind of feeling like a huge asshole but what else is new? It's still something Dick needed to know, he thinks, something better said now than at the end, and yet...]
...it's probably temporary for you, yeah. [And he accepted that a while ago, just by nature of who he is as a person.] There's no guarantee people will remember anything when we leave this place, but I went into this knowing I probably would just because of the Morphogenetic Field. And even if it was temporary for us, I've spent more time having...whatever this is between us reciprocated than I've had with her. It's like I told Carlos. One day I just realized that maybe the girl I thought I knew wasn't really real at all, and I didn't know anything. But I wanted to do everything I could to make sure she wasn't bearing the weight of the world on her own shoulders.
[...] Coming here, I didn't think I'd ever feel the same way about anybody, but it's like I told Beck. I've never...had anybody else. It just never happened for me, and there were nine years between the last time Akane and I saw each other and the Nonary Game where I saved her and she ditched us in Nevada.
I don't really know what to call this thing between us, but I'm not looking at the deadline on it. I don't mind if you are. [There's a half grin.] Kinda used to being the one to care way too much. [It's also said like a joke except for the part where he's actually genuinely wondering if this is going to regress and he should've kept his mouth shut. "Good job, Junpei. You ruined another relationship trying to understand your own intense emotions." But at least he knows better than to say it out loud, and instead he turns his head for press his lips to the side of Dick's face. "Let me fix this."]
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...it's probably temporary for you, yeah. [And he accepted that a while ago, just by nature of who he is as a person.] There's no guarantee people will remember anything when we leave this place, but I went into this knowing I probably would just because of the Morphogenetic Field. And even if it was temporary for us, I've spent more time having...whatever this is between us reciprocated than I've had with her. It's like I told Carlos. One day I just realized that maybe the girl I thought I knew wasn't really real at all, and I didn't know anything. But I wanted to do everything I could to make sure she wasn't bearing the weight of the world on her own shoulders.
[...] Coming here, I didn't think I'd ever feel the same way about anybody, but it's like I told Beck. I've never...had anybody else. It just never happened for me, and there were nine years between the last time Akane and I saw each other and the Nonary Game where I saved her and she ditched us in Nevada.
I don't really know what to call this thing between us, but I'm not looking at the deadline on it. I don't mind if you are. [There's a half grin.] Kinda used to being the one to care way too much. [It's also said like a joke except for the part where he's actually genuinely wondering if this is going to regress and he should've kept his mouth shut. "Good job, Junpei. You ruined another relationship trying to understand your own intense emotions." But at least he knows better than to say it out loud, and instead he turns his head for press his lips to the side of Dick's face. "Let me fix this."]