"Gay porn," Eliot observed. "Jesus, my pop woulda died a good 20 years early if that'd happened."
Eliot would have been bounced off the football team, too. And he could have kissed his army career goodbye, which was what he'd really been afraid of, as a kid. DADT was well in force at the time, and the army was the only way he'd known of to get the hell out of town.
And, well. The path he'd ended up on thanks to Uncle Sam hadn't been straight and narrow in any sense of the word, but it was what had led him to the people he had now.
Teen Eliot had had plenty of reason to be terrified. He'd just been damned stupid about how he'd responded to it.
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Date: 2018-06-12 04:35 am (UTC)Eliot would have been bounced off the football team, too. And he could have kissed his army career goodbye, which was what he'd really been afraid of, as a kid. DADT was well in force at the time, and the army was the only way he'd known of to get the hell out of town.
And, well. The path he'd ended up on thanks to Uncle Sam hadn't been straight and narrow in any sense of the word, but it was what had led him to the people he had now.
Teen Eliot had had plenty of reason to be terrified. He'd just been damned stupid about how he'd responded to it.