Alec shakes his head, drawing his arm back to his side. He doesn’t want to be moved right now, not when there’s still so much that he needs to see and not when Richard is going to stand there and be judgemental and stop him from it.

“I don’t need you if you’re just going to judge me.” Alec laughs, light and a little mad. “Everything is better like this.” For now, at least.