" - I told him at one point he could lie to me any time it'd be useful for stupid spell with a motive test purposes but that I was inconveniently really hard to lie to - thank you for trying, though -"

" - Obliviate," says Michael to his brother, and then when Miranda shoots him an outraged glance - "I can never get it to stick longer than five minutes and he won't be mad about a temporary one - try it again - Confundo -"

...Miranda repeats herself.

Great so he can have Cam who can't trust him back -  malicious intent, malicious intent, his head is weirdly fuzzy probably the panic but he settles his brain into intending to hurt Cam to get him back - and not let go, he couldn't do this intending to ever let go -

"Imperio -"

- Cam does not look like a deathwish when next allowed to wake.

Miranda relaxes.

He takes a deep breath. 

His head is still annoyingly fuzzy.

He squeezes Cam's hand. 

Well, if he wants Cam to squeeze back then Cam will do that.

Yep. He wants Cam to close his eyes and pretend to be relaxedly sleeping, trying to get him to explain to the onlookers might be pushing the spell too far -

"He mentioned earlier that it had a very soothing effect," he says quietly to everybody. "Thought it might snap him out of it. I think it'd be better for him not to be surrounded by panicked people when he wakes up - if you don't mind -"

The Elves leave.

The wizards totally don't leave.

"- are you two dating -"

"Uh - we - were?"

"Awwwwwwwwwww."

"That explains a lot!"

"You could have told us, you know, people actually generally like someone better when they know they're not literally perfect in every way."

Cam rests his head on Timothy's shoulder and closes his eyes and exhibits total relaxation.

...quite apart from being an asinine remark this really isn't the time, Michael, Miranda doesn't comment aloud.

"Well, consider yourselves told and leave us alone."

Miranda shoos.

He'd like Cam to accompany him upstairs. 

He's not going to do anything wrong he's just going to hold him compared to having Imperiused him against his will it does not seem likely Cam will object to having been cuddled -

Cam follows him upstairs and snuggles up.

Fantastic. 

Can he even get meaningful answers to - "do you know what's going on?"

Distantly - "No -"

He should stop it, of course, but he did it by sincerely intending not to, intending never to - not that he expects Cam to find this a good reason -

- his head is still fuzzy why is his head so fuzzy -

- oh -

Snuggle.

He would like Cam to kiss him he would not like Cam to kiss him Cam is probably getting such confusingly mixed signals - 

- he sits up and puts his head in his hands and whimpers and sorts out the actual chain of events -