"If you would have been listening to more than your own excitement to study someone you might have heard me tell you that part was a bad idea and I retracted it." Which was also true. How many times had he said just talk to him like a friend since then.

"I needed medical advice on papers I found about me. It isn't like I could talk to the doctors that wrote them." Damien grumbled. "I didn't sign up to be your pet science project for the rest of my existence, and I sure the damned didn't think my friend would start seeing me as a science fair project because I asked them to look at some papers I didn't understand."

Damien got really stern and those golden eyes pinned on Isamu like death. "No. We need to talk about you. Dominic's rescue isn't triggering my memories of the Ministry right now, you are and how you are talking about us."