@topshelfperverts // declan said: "get your fucking confidence back. i can't do it for you."
ISN'T DECLAN SUPPOSED TO BE THE MOPEY DRUNKARD? Not only because he's Irish, and all Irishmen are that, but also because Rupert has the very real lived experience of wiping Declan's self-pitying tears before they drip into his wine glass. He's sensitive. Extreme.
It's sadly admirable. Admirably sad.
"When The Blessed Margaret's lost her faith in me after all these years," Her faith in Rupert against all odds, the Olympian, the bad boy, the goddamn Minister for Sport, "There's not much confidence left to take back, I'm afraid. If you'd ever fallen so far from grace, Declan, you'd understand. Surely."
He's so hungover that he's still drunk and, indeed, slurring.