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Harrison was worried that the two would come to blows or perhaps more childish insults but this is much better.  He has never been more proud of his mate than when he is listening to him lay out his life’s work.  This is his husband, the father of his son, the man he’s chosen and he doesn’t regret it for a moment.  He’s cast his lot in with a hero – technically a costumed vigilante – not just because he’s a good man, but because Wayne Michael Scott is probably the best person Harrison has ever known.   There’s no way Syx could miss the soft glow on his face as he looks up adoringly at his beloved.  

However his moment of quiet pride is cut short by the way Syx responds.  Oh it’s certainly correct of him to apologize and Harrison is pleased to hear it is a real apology and not a half-assed one.  But it’s also hard to see his strong dominant villain looking so…. small.  And lonely.  He especially hates seeing Syx with his arms around himself, like he’s trying to hug himself or just hold himself together.  It also solidifies Harrison’s impression that Syx’s Metro Man is a jerk.  

He steps alongside Syx and puts an arm around his shoulder, rubbing it gently.  “It’s alright, you’re still new here.  It takes some time to learn that even though people might look the same and act very similar, they can also be very different.  Give it time,” he says soothingly.  He licks his lips, waiting to see how Wayne will respond.  

[That Syx lets it go and even apologizes is shocking, but he can’t really enjoy the win, not with the guy looking like a kicked puppy. It’s a hollow victory to be right, to derail someone going off half-cocked, and yet somehow end up feeling like you’re still being a bully. It’s not fair.]

[He watches the other man for a long moment, several emotions shifting through him. Satisfaction, irritation, curiosity, bitterness, and eventually Wayne settles for low grade frustration.] Just… just try not to take your issues with that Metro Man out on me again in the future. And, if I were your Metro Man, then we’d would still be continuing the game as it has always been because I’m too afraid to tell my Megamind that I’m interested in him like that.

Unfolding a bit at Harrison’s touch, Syx rubbed his hands over his face roughly, trying to do something with his horrible mix of emotions. He frowned at the hero’s admission, “You’re… married to a blue man and you are still afraid to tell your Megamind you like him?” Syx bit his lip, he had no right to call it stupid considering, “I-it was more an accident than anything that Wayne and I even hooked up. We got in an argument when a battle derailed and… Roxanne made a joke about just kissing already… I’m pretty sure she was the only one of us all that knew. I would never have told him-” he looking away “-either of them. That I loved them. So yeah, I suppose you’re right. It would have turned out about the same in the end.”

Chewing on his bottom lip he added, “Everything you said about what you’ve done for Metrocity… I think I would have ended up a lot less angry at you, though,” It would have been nice to not feel so alone in trying to fix the rotten core of the city. But… this was his city now. This was a Metro Man in this city. Maybe… maybe it would be better? 

He offered Wayne a soft tentative smile, “I suppose I have room enough in my life for more than one Metro Man, especially when the package deal makes such good company,” he brought his hand up to cover Harrison’s on his arm, thankful for the calming presence of other blue man he’d become so very fond of, “I have no idea where to go from here? Getting to know you and not Metro Man.”