There's an initial moment where Billy is quiet - maybe contemplating Hickey's words, or maybe just judging the odd sauce the other is working with.
It's likely a combination of the two as he sits there and waits for the other man to get the meal ready, considering that sauce definitely does not look very appealing. If they were being any less coy about this, Billy would have pointed out that's not really the way to make a meal like this look more appetizing to anyone, in case he was planning on serving this to anyone else in town. (Chloe, maybe? Or Kieren, considering.. what's going on with him.)
He holds his tongue on that one though, everything considered. Instead he slowly speaks up again after that moment of contemplation. "It's not as if this is the first mess we got into together."
If anything, he'd say that this one is a little better than the last one. At least there's some slight hope that things might get better here again. That maybe the darkess will lift soon enough. The downwards spiral back home was much more inevitable, especially past a certain point.
"But I am.." A little slower, like he's considering his words. Or maybe just bad enough at saying this that it just comes a little more slowly. ".. glad. That we are in it together. It is just about the only thing that makes this situation slightly bearable."
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It's likely a combination of the two as he sits there and waits for the other man to get the meal ready, considering that sauce definitely does not look very appealing. If they were being any less coy about this, Billy would have pointed out that's not really the way to make a meal like this look more appetizing to anyone, in case he was planning on serving this to anyone else in town. (Chloe, maybe? Or Kieren, considering.. what's going on with him.)
He holds his tongue on that one though, everything considered. Instead he slowly speaks up again after that moment of contemplation. "It's not as if this is the first mess we got into together."
If anything, he'd say that this one is a little better than the last one. At least there's some slight hope that things might get better here again. That maybe the darkess will lift soon enough. The downwards spiral back home was much more inevitable, especially past a certain point.
"But I am.." A little slower, like he's considering his words. Or maybe just bad enough at saying this that it just comes a little more slowly. ".. glad. That we are in it together. It is just about the only thing that makes this situation slightly bearable."