Romeo shook his head. "No. If he had, he would have --"
He would have called Romeo a moron and congratulated him on getting laid in a single jumbled paragraph, is what he would have done, and then found a way to send Tybalt away with a sharp word before any blood was shed. Though perhaps not. Mercutio was never easy for Romeo to predict, especially with the distance of death and time between them. And, too, Mercutio was never known for sense.
"He might have done exactly the same thing even if he'd understood my reasons," Romeo finally concluded. "He had his own quarrels with Tybalt. My cousin might have made a difference, if he'd known, but it all happened so very fast."
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Date: 2009-06-26 01:54 pm (UTC)He would have called Romeo a moron and congratulated him on getting laid in a single jumbled paragraph, is what he would have done, and then found a way to send Tybalt away with a sharp word before any blood was shed. Though perhaps not. Mercutio was never easy for Romeo to predict, especially with the distance of death and time between them. And, too, Mercutio was never known for sense.
"He might have done exactly the same thing even if he'd understood my reasons," Romeo finally concluded. "He had his own quarrels with Tybalt. My cousin might have made a difference, if he'd known, but it all happened so very fast."