John takes a moment to look between one pissed off asshole and the other, and he feels his own temper flare. He's not gonna snap because they Do Not Need this, especially after he just broke up a fucking fistfight between the two most important people in his life.
But fuck it he doesn't want to.
"Yes," he says with pointedly careful, measured slowness, as he looks at Charlie, "we did. We offered it to the Enchanted Woods to gain passage."
And then to Arthur.
"And I refused to join with the King," he adds with a steady look to Arthur, "because the King intended to destroy Arthur in every universe." And he swallows at the mention of it, his eyes shifting back to Charlie as he continues, softer. "And I couldn't allow that to happen. I love him. And he loves me. We chose one another and defied the King, so he sent us to the Dreamlands to confront us in person himself."
Re: what lies beneath
John takes a moment to look between one pissed off asshole and the other, and he feels his own temper flare. He's not gonna snap because they Do Not Need this, especially after he just broke up a fucking fistfight between the two most important people in his life.
But fuck it he doesn't want to.
"Yes," he says with pointedly careful, measured slowness, as he looks at Charlie, "we did. We offered it to the Enchanted Woods to gain passage."
And then to Arthur.
"And I refused to join with the King," he adds with a steady look to Arthur, "because the King intended to destroy Arthur in every universe." And he swallows at the mention of it, his eyes shifting back to Charlie as he continues, softer. "And I couldn't allow that to happen. I love him. And he loves me. We chose one another and defied the King, so he sent us to the Dreamlands to confront us in person himself."