Seems like it.

[reaches to cup Noel's cheek with the hand that isn't cutely handholding, leaning in to touch their foreheads together again.

he still won't- can't- tell Noel who they really are, who they've really been, anything like that. that's a closeness he won't share, a risk he won't take. but this... this is a closeness he's being permitted for now. he might as well savor it.]