Worthless and Broken

"How does he even know about them?" The alchemist asked, perhaps a touch skeptically. After all, he'd merely assumed Loren and Phoebe's relationship was entirely professional up until this point. It hadn't occurred to them that they'd blurred the boundary into friendship. ...wouldn’t unless he wanted me like that... Remi felt something cold and precise form in the pit of his stomach. It felt snake-like and tinged with green. ..then he accused me of liking him... "Do you?" He very nearly said, the viper in his stomach stirring and trying to work his lips into satisfying its curiosity. Instead Remi bit hard on the inside of his cheek and cuddled Phoebe all the harder. Jealousy was never something he'd felt before, not in any of his friendships or in relationships. If he could help it, he wouldn't start now. Not that he could, though. "He...what?!" For a moment Remi's fingers gripped tightly around Phoebe as feathers sprouted through his curls. Teeth clicking together he had to force himself to relax, though he did shift unhappily beneath her as an adrenaline-testosterone concoction broiled in his belly. "Why? What brought any of this on? Why would he be so cruel and...so.." Biting his lip Remi tried to think of the word. "..why bring all those other things up?" REMI I forgot what it was like, to think I found you finding me