Apr 6, 2020
1) tommyjon 2) regency naval officers
Jon has seen Tommy in his boyhood clothes, in his formal clothes, even bare-chested as he scrubbed himself down after a horse threw him in the mud, but he has never seen him in uniform, and apparently that makes all the difference.
“You’re awful to look at,” he says as they walk up the gangplank together, both pretending nerves aren’t roiling in their guts. “Has anyone ever told you that?”
“No one,” says Tommy, and his smile makes Jon feel like they are already out at sea.
