"What? Why would I have to-," he starts for a moment and then, then there's a dawning realization after another beat that was probably a little too long for someone who's over a hundred years old and while he wasn't really doing much for a very large chunk of that time, it's not like he'd never used a line to get a woman into bed. With that dawning realization he can feel the tops of his ears getting hot and it causes him to duck his head a little. "You know what I meant," he mumbles a moment later, because she wouldn't be giving him shit for if she didn't.
Thankfully he recovers enough to be able to give a quiet snort of laughter when she describes the approach Alexei did and probably still does take to the amount of food he needs to eat due to the serum, because he can see why someone would think that. But it might also be down to both he and Alexei being a product of their times. It's hard for him to really deal in excess when there had been a time that food and the money for food was scarcer than they would like and things had to stretch to make it through. He might not have to deal with that as a reality now but it's harder for him to really let go of some of that mentality, no matter how many reminders he got.
He's still squinting at her even after her smirk, before relaxing again, like he wasn't just trying to figure out if she was just saying something as a joke and hoped he took it literal.
"Alright, one question though, are you the kinda person who's annoying about it when you quote it because you're doing it the whole time and distracting from the movie or is it gonna be under your breath?" He's still not sure if he believes it, but he decides it's worth it to know, just in case.
it'll have absolutely nothing to do with why people question what's going on between them, nope
Thankfully he recovers enough to be able to give a quiet snort of laughter when she describes the approach Alexei did and probably still does take to the amount of food he needs to eat due to the serum, because he can see why someone would think that. But it might also be down to both he and Alexei being a product of their times. It's hard for him to really deal in excess when there had been a time that food and the money for food was scarcer than they would like and things had to stretch to make it through. He might not have to deal with that as a reality now but it's harder for him to really let go of some of that mentality, no matter how many reminders he got.
He's still squinting at her even after her smirk, before relaxing again, like he wasn't just trying to figure out if she was just saying something as a joke and hoped he took it literal.
"Alright, one question though, are you the kinda person who's annoying about it when you quote it because you're doing it the whole time and distracting from the movie or is it gonna be under your breath?" He's still not sure if he believes it, but he decides it's worth it to know, just in case.