When the other man starts to get up, Derek's body jerks like he's going to follow him, but at the name, the other man sits back down and looks back at him. So that's a yes, Derek thinks, even before Adam responds. ...and that means it wasn't just a random dream with Derek's subconscious piecing together things from here and things from home to try to make sense of them. There's something more to it.
Derek tenses and takes in a sharp breath when Adam starts to mention his face in his dreams last night; jaw sets when he's nearly positive he knows the end of the sentence Adam doesn't let himself finish. "Not all predators are killers," he says quietly, frowning, and then a moment later, tacks on, "and I'm not a monster." Not anymore, anyway.
But now he realizes what's going on. Adam knows more about Derek than he should and Derek knows more about Adam than he should. Strangers forced to get to know one another without the other's permission; fed information they shouldn't have through their dreams.
"I dreamed about you last night, too. I thought it was something else; someone else." He's quiet for a moment. "I won't tell anybody about you if you don't tell anybody about me?" His eyes shift up from the table and the slop on his tray in front of him to the man across the table. "And I won't ask questions if you won't." Because it's none of his business what went on in Adam's life before this place and it sure as hell isn't any of Adam's business what went on in Derek's, they just didn't really have a choice in the matter.
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Derek tenses and takes in a sharp breath when Adam starts to mention his face in his dreams last night; jaw sets when he's nearly positive he knows the end of the sentence Adam doesn't let himself finish. "Not all predators are killers," he says quietly, frowning, and then a moment later, tacks on, "and I'm not a monster." Not anymore, anyway.
But now he realizes what's going on. Adam knows more about Derek than he should and Derek knows more about Adam than he should. Strangers forced to get to know one another without the other's permission; fed information they shouldn't have through their dreams.
"I dreamed about you last night, too. I thought it was something else; someone else." He's quiet for a moment. "I won't tell anybody about you if you don't tell anybody about me?" His eyes shift up from the table and the slop on his tray in front of him to the man across the table. "And I won't ask questions if you won't." Because it's none of his business what went on in Adam's life before this place and it sure as hell isn't any of Adam's business what went on in Derek's, they just didn't really have a choice in the matter.