The twitch is reflexive rather than fearful; it's not like he doesn't miss Gabe's hands, but this doesn't feel like Gabe, not at all, feeling him out like Hamlet studying Ofelia, it's - well, if not creepy, weird, at the very least.

"I don't not belong to your future," he says, not wholly comfortable with that phrasing (and who is Samael, anyway? is that who he's afraid it is?), but not wholly uncomfortable with it either. "You're in love with me, if that helps."

It makes his stomach flip to acknowledge it. Well, that doesn't have to be on the table. If there's any silver lining to meet this weird version of Gabe it's that he won't notice, maybe won't even care, how fucked up he is.