[Seasonal Event] Escape From/To You

Never one particularly well-suited for lying or misleading, the alchemist wasn't entirely surprised when Sam noticed that something about him was off. Rather than perhaps trying to be asleep still or feigning his way through appearing to have just woken up, Remi's pale eyes—made so much glassier by his tears—opened. The alchemist felt the way Sam's fingers touched his cheek and his hair, it both feeling so natural and yet not at all. Both men had erected various walls and barriers, and while Sam might have easily slipped between them will Remi was sleeping, the alchemist had not. "We are not fine." Remi whispered, shifting slightly so that he could look into Sam's eyes. His words were not meant as a rebuke or challenge, merely a softly stated fact. The were some things apologies could fix and some that they couldn't. Some things they couldn't even touch. "You did it Sam." Remi began again, his tongue and lips feeling dry and his eyes still feeling heavy. "The curse that Frey put on me...The one only true passion and emotion could break..." The hand on Sam's hip pulled away, as Remi wiped distractedly at his tears. "But...it...it means..." The words choked off in the alchemist's throat. It meant what Remi felt for Sam had been real. But because of that, the dam of emotions Frey's curse had held back had now been released, threatening to swamp completely the last lingering spark between them. REMI Loving you was sunshine, but then it poured & I lost so much more than my senses 'Cause loving you had consequences