closed starter — amin qājār. ( @effervcscents )
location : laurie's bedroom. time : very early morning.
from the instant laurie sees who is on the other side of his bedroom door, he's ushering amin inside, his expression frantic & confused as he signs one-handed, the other still occupied with closing the door as quietly as possible. " what are you doing here ? " it's not that laurie is unhappy to see them — if anything, he's overjoyed — but they hadn't planned to see each other tonight considering the chaos that had occurred while they were gone, & on top of that, he's alarmed by how distraught amin looks. " what's going on ? what's happened ? " his hands move quickly & his eyebrows draw in as he closes the space between them, reaching up to delicately caress either side of the other's face. they know, intuitively, that it probably has something to do with amin's father — that prick, his brain interjects — but he doesn't want to pry before they're ready to tell him. instead, he simply pulls himself up onto his tiptoes & curls one hand around the back of amin's neck to pull him down ever so slightly, resting their foreheads together to hopefully ground him & calm him down.
