His Business
Setting: Season 14, Episode 2
"So, you're bi now?" Hunter asked him, sitting in the reclining chair adjacent to him.
"Sure. Bi, pan, straight with a side of Tristan. I like what I like," Miles replied nonchalantly, laying on the couch as he absent-mindedly watched a game with Hunter. It was one of Hunter's e-sports. He didn't care for it much, but smiled a little every time Hunter excitedly cheered for player's 'sick play'.
"Cool." It was a calm statement. Very Hunter. Question, answer, acknowledgement. Miles knew that when his relationship with Tristan came out that Hunter would take it the best – meaning he wouldn't care in the least. Not that Frankie's enthusiasm for his new found sexuality was a bad thing.
"Thanks." Miles said lamely, after a few moments pause.
"I kind of expected it ever since you went to Paris."
Miles' eyebrows rose in response to that. His brother was not usually so perceptive. "I'm glad to have a brother who doesn't judge me for what I like."
"Don't get mushy," Hunter joked. "Plus, with the things I like, I understand what it's like to likes things and others judge it."
That gave Miles pause. Memories flashed of him insulting the things Hunter liked – mainly games and his manga. Guilt filled him. Here Hunter was perfectly fine with his sexual preferences yet he had not been able to do the same with Hunter for his activities.
"I'm sorry. For making fun of all this," Miles said, indicating the screen on which the team based battles took place, around the room and the time and space between the brothers. "I'm sorry if I ever made you feel like shit for the things you liked. I know what that's like." He didn't add that it was their father that made him feel that way. "It was your business. I should have respected it."
"Don't mention it," Hunter replied. It was a moment, a short one, interrupted as Hunter roared in cheer for his team. He didn't scoff as Miles put a reassuring hand on him.
"Thanks for this," Miles said.
The next morning at breakfast Hunter couldn't pretend to care about his family as they bickered about what Miles' sexuality was. It was his business after all.
