Well well, now we're cooking with gas. (Shut up.) Alejandro leans back in his chair and gives him an appraising look-- his gaze is almost too sharp, insight and personality too much for a mortal. (Is he mortal, though, having been a superhero?)
"Excuse us for a while," he says in Spanish, clearly speaking to the two women with him even though he doesn't take his eyes off Jon. They obey, and Alejandro does switch his gaze over to his translator. "Call Nadya, please? Thank you."
He doesn't say anything right away once they're alone. Just looks at him. He's intrigued, honestly; there's something going on, and whether it's good or bad he's interested-- honestly, bad ideas are sometimes more appealing. "What's your angle?" he asks. "Never in my life have I come into a negotiation like this and spoken to someone who doesn't want something. But you're just watching me."
It's obvious that Alejandro doesn't recognize Jon in any spiritual way. Does that mean he has no memory of any life before? It could. It's probably more likely, given how he's behaving. The truth is that he does remember, but that he's become so bitter and spent so much time in therapy over a broken heart that he's not looking anymore. The Circle fucked him over, and he's not going to spit on Hephaestion's memory by letting himself be used in exchange for the barest hope they'd help him find his lost love. He wouldn't be Alexander, then. He wouldn't be the man Hephaestion loved. And what the fuck would the point be, then?
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"Excuse us for a while," he says in Spanish, clearly speaking to the two women with him even though he doesn't take his eyes off Jon. They obey, and Alejandro does switch his gaze over to his translator. "Call Nadya, please? Thank you."
He doesn't say anything right away once they're alone. Just looks at him. He's intrigued, honestly; there's something going on, and whether it's good or bad he's interested-- honestly, bad ideas are sometimes more appealing. "What's your angle?" he asks. "Never in my life have I come into a negotiation like this and spoken to someone who doesn't want something. But you're just watching me."
It's obvious that Alejandro doesn't recognize Jon in any spiritual way. Does that mean he has no memory of any life before? It could. It's probably more likely, given how he's behaving. The truth is that he does remember, but that he's become so bitter and spent so much time in therapy over a broken heart that he's not looking anymore. The Circle fucked him over, and he's not going to spit on Hephaestion's memory by letting himself be used in exchange for the barest hope they'd help him find his lost love. He wouldn't be Alexander, then. He wouldn't be the man Hephaestion loved. And what the fuck would the point be, then?