Because this isn't so different from the dance they've done before in clubs. York goes and gathers attention, flirting and feeling and feeding from the adoration. But he doesn't go home with anyone else, and Locus is always certain to cover any marks left behind by his own. They're both content with that arrangement.
He doesn't love Washington, he simply needs to 'resolve' this. It would benefit them to do so before the mission, certainly, but more than that? He finds it's difficult to deny York anything he openly wants...particularly when he's so ready to deny himself, and punish himself for daring to want.
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Because this isn't so different from the dance they've done before in clubs. York goes and gathers attention, flirting and feeling and feeding from the adoration. But he doesn't go home with anyone else, and Locus is always certain to cover any marks left behind by his own. They're both content with that arrangement.
He doesn't love Washington, he simply needs to 'resolve' this. It would benefit them to do so before the mission, certainly, but more than that? He finds it's difficult to deny York anything he openly wants...particularly when he's so ready to deny himself, and punish himself for daring to want.