Ed reaches over, still not looking, so it takes a couple of goes, and wraps his hand over Oswald's again. "Likewise. For both."

The idea of being interested in men, even just romantically, had panicked Ed for a long time. There was a reason Riddler had hoarded that trait for himself, like the anger, like the pride.

"When you were- When I thought I killed you. I grieved. We grieved. I took up drug use just to hallucinate and have a chance to see you, even if it meant risking seeing others."