[oh. OH. Horatio feels his lungs clench around the breath he was in the middle of taking, but thankfully he's very good at keeping a straight face.
he's going to vivisect Atem. Atem, who already died by that once: twice, if you counted the parasitic infestation that he himself helped end, hands covered in a new friend's blood.
Atem Is Not Going To Be Okay after this. But at the same time, he recognizes why Gabe needs to do it: and that he would have very similar thoughts, himself, if someone had tried that shit on him. Regardless of the way he personally feels about it, of how he knows it will go down on the other end, he can't be angry. He can't stop him, or speak out against it - not only does he have no right, but it's neither his place nor his business.
Instead of any other, broader reaction, Horatio nods slowly, his jaw and mouth pressed as he finishes breathing in.]
When?
[he just ... doesn't want to be there. or anywhere near wherever it's going to happen. so that if any of their friends come to him and say "you know Gabriel. DID YOU KNOW?" he has plausible deniability and will not have to choose a side.]
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Date: 2022-01-06 01:21 am (UTC)he's going to vivisect Atem. Atem, who already died by that once: twice, if you counted the parasitic infestation that he himself helped end, hands covered in a new friend's blood.
Atem Is Not Going To Be Okay after this. But at the same time, he recognizes why Gabe needs to do it: and that he would have very similar thoughts, himself, if someone had tried that shit on him. Regardless of the way he personally feels about it, of how he knows it will go down on the other end, he can't be angry. He can't stop him, or speak out against it - not only does he have no right, but it's neither his place nor his business.
Instead of any other, broader reaction, Horatio nods slowly, his jaw and mouth pressed as he finishes breathing in.]
When?
[he just ... doesn't want to be there. or anywhere near wherever it's going to happen. so that if any of their friends come to him and say "you know Gabriel. DID YOU KNOW?" he has plausible deniability and will not have to choose a side.]