not your burden to bear

REMI

"It was them that I attacked." Remi points out (un)helpfully, in response, the implication clear in the dark glint of his eyes: you only attack your prey. Right?

It's like having a bucket of icy water thrown down the back of his shirt. Remi straightens, the wound on his chest screeching in protest as newly-clotted skin is pulled apart. He ignores it of course, breathing in deeply through his nose and keeping his eyes trained on the darkened streets. Part of him hates Finn for not being tough enough, for some reason. But a larger part of him is eternally grateful that he isn't; it gives Remi hope that one day again death might upset him in a way it simply doesn't, now. "It's worse not to see them." The Alchemist says in a low voice. "I'd worry about you more if you'd already forgotten them by now."

Walking appropriately close to Finn to catch him should he fall, but not so close that it made his mind fill with static, the Alchemist just shakes his head. "You'd have been better served searching the beach for the star I made you, than wandering here all alone."

honest feelings and bad timing
make the most painful combination.

Code taken from Sky who is utter perfection