"Yeah, that sounds... pretty terrible, honestly." More hug.

"I totally didn't get anything useful from the statement. Between being sad about Asher, being weirded out by the... coherency... of her statement, and being out of practice with shorthand."

"I mean, I think that's pretty normal, given the situation? If I were in your shoes I wouldn't have gotten anything either. Probably wouldn't have even noticed the coherency between all the... feelings. I'd offer to write it up more neatly in print for the non-digitizable statements file for you, but, uh, I can't actually read shorthand."

Lev tearily smiles up at him. "Most people can't. It's my most antiquated skill."

.....Tentative kiss on the forehead?

Happy squeak!

"I'm not going to get much work done this afternoon probably," he says obliquely. 

Oh yay a happy squeak!

"That's okay. You can take as much time as you need to recover, or, or, whatever. I can bring you tea and food if you need it?"

"I'm probably going to head home," he says, and tilts his head up.

.....Very fast nervous kiss. And then he is going to look at Lev and hope that he didn't just mess everything up.

Lev actually does break into tears. 

"Oh god I'm so, I'm so sorry--" Martin's flight instinct finally overcomes his 'take care of Lev' instinct and he runs out the door.

...If Lev's still there in a few minutes, he'll get to see Martin return bearing two cups of tea.

Lev is sitting in a corner with his arms wrapped around his knees sobbing. 

Yeah okay Martin is going to leave a cup of tea in front of him and then flee.

"Stay?" he says quietly.

"...Yeah. Yeah, okay."

Martin is going to sit on the floor somewhere nearish Lev and sip at his own cup of tea.

"Sorry. I've had. A really bad day."

"Yeah, I. I got that. --You really don't have to be sorry."

"You really shouldn't break into tears when people kiss you."

Martin opens and closes his mouth a couple of times at that.

"....I didn't exactly, um, ask? And you looked like you were already about to cry, honestly, just--the kiss on the forehead had made it better, so I. Assumed."

Wow isn't this tea very very interesting to look at!

"Forehead kisses are nice."

Maybe he will uncurl and put his head on Martin's shoulder.

..................very, very tentative forehead kiss. Martin looks a little bit like he expects Lev to spontaneously combust upon receiving it.

Tiny happy noise. 

"I should go back to my apartment and not cry on your office floor." He hesitates. "Do you want to come with me."

"....Do you want me to?"

He mumbles something that might be "yes."

“...Hm?”