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Izzy's warm hand on Lucius' cheek is unexpected, but it pulls him back out of his own head. "You're really not having a laugh, are you?" he asks quietly enough not even Buttons would dare to listen in.
"There are dangerous men in this port." Lucius feels like he's pulling words through the top of a poorly-bored hole in a frozen lake with nothing but his teeth. "That's all."
"What, worse than me?"
Lucius knows he should laugh. "Yes." Izzy's thumb slides over Lucius' cheekbone, and for a terrifying moment, Lucius thinks he's going to choose now to finally kiss him, as if Lucius hasn't been screaming at him to do it in everything but semaphore for weeks. "Very much so," he tacks on, just in case the first yes was drowned out by the blood pounding in his ears. "No offense meant."
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To protect Jim, Izzy puts himself into a Situation only Lucius knows how to rescue him from. Unfortunately, that means finally facing and coming to terms with all the ghosts from his past in Port Royal.