[SE] the things that you do in the name of what you love

REMI

the bastion

Darling, you never could scare me
Set me ablaze like you do

It's selfish of course, the way Remi tenses to hear Isla say I love him, the pair have known each other for far too long and in too many iterations of one another for Remi to do anything other than sigh softly. "Come here." As it always had been with Isla, her anger would have been far easier for him to endure than her sadness, and though there's still more he needs to say, gods he can't do it when he can so easily see the way she's hurting.

Wanting nothing more than to wrap his arms around her if she'll allow him, with a shift of his shoulders his wings move to join his arms, cocooning her as if that might somehow freeze the moment and give them time to think. "He's still going to be him." Remi whispers against the top of her head. "Everest isn't the infection." Surely whatever it was the Remedy LOvEd about him would still be there once he was cured. Little did Remi know just how unfounded that assumption would turn out to be, but gods, it seemed right, didn't it?

I'd walk over coals in my bare feet
If that gets me closer to you

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!