#drunk laurent

A favorite scene from Kings Rising 

Laurent is so precious at this moment. He’s so vulnerable and open and Damen is so utterly besotted. I weep. I sob. Protect the bebe. 

Bonus: 

I just realised that in this confrontation scene, Laurent wasn’t accusing Damen of raping him but rather, confirming sleeping with him when his defences were too lowered to manage a snide ‘Hello, lover’ (*derogatory*). Looooool.

Because, the way he asks Damen ‘DiD i sAy aNyThInG?’ right after Damen said he wouldn’t take advantage?! like he knew if he was drunk he would’ve either seduced Damen or confessed all of his undying feelings for the man who killed his brother😂 the accusation I’m coming to realise isn’t an accusation at all, but rather a confirmation for happened. This was sober Laurent doing damage control for the far more fun and loving and adorable cinnamon roll that is drunk Laurent 💕💞✨🙈

And Damen is just like ‘really? I’m thoroughly insulted!’ *walks away like a cat dropping a pitcher for effect* I love how Damen manages to surprise Laurent in every book. Till the end at Ios showing up at his trial.

The part where you decided to reread the Captive Prince trilogy (in different eyes) because “Laurent had known who he was all along”.

‘...You were drunk the first night I met you.’

‘I made an exception,’ said Laurent, ‘that night. Two and a half bottles. I had to force myself to get it down. I thought it would be easier drunk.’

‘You thought what would be easier?’ said Damen.

Damen is so cognizant of being businesslike and getting out of there in his own POV, but Laurent doesn’t remember any of that.

So all he knows is he wakes up alone, feeling terrible. His elaborately laced clothing is undone, which is something he wouldn’t be able to manage drunk and on his own. Also his jacket is hung over the back of a chair and he has a bowl to vomit into. Someone else was clearly there though he doesn’t know who.

He tries to figure it out by asking his guards, and he tries to figure out how to ask without revealing too much of the weakness that he can’t remember what happens, so he is like, “I need a full list of who was in my rooms last night.”

And the guards are like, “No one, until you returned with King Damianos, and he said not to let anyone else enter.”