UGH, this so was scrumptious I had to come back a second time to enjoy it😩😚
Nikolai takes Price out to every match, or musical, or meeting, every concert, or conference, or convention, that he can find.
Because he didn’t get the chance to go out, where he was before. He didn’t get to experience the world around him. Nikolai didn’t get to leave the bubble he grew up in, because it’s hard to go anywhere at all with nothing to your name.
Price, if he’s honest, hates it. The next time he gets dragged out to some drag show he doesn’t give two shits about, or a five-hour lecture about some old Latin bullshit, he swears that he’ll kill someone.
That is, until he glances up at Nikolai on the train home. The way he’s smiling, mostly to himself, before looking away and out the window.
From that night onwards, Price shows up when he asks without hesitation. Whether abroad, or local, he goes to Nikolai’s side.
Because as much as he may hate spending hours in sweaty convention halls, watching his back, he hates Nikolai being sad more.