See true, see far

Ronin's fingers coaxed Remi further away from the wall, the touch setting a fire in his veins as his hand wandered further, dancing along his lower back and pressing them ever closer together. Remi smiled and the guildmaster shot him one to match, mischievous and heated and promising only better things to come, if only he was permitted. Because while this was the same Ronin who had gone into the stars - the same man who had heard I love you whispered heartbreakingly into his ear before he left - this was not the same Remi he had returned to. This one had surprised him in ways that had made his stomach flip over on itself. To watch him with his daughter, to see the vicious protectiveness with which he regarded her, to hear him speak with wit and laughter even whilst internally he was shattered... Ronin had stumbled and fallen, hook line and sinker. So as Remi pulled him forward, there was utterly no resistance from the ex-captain, and he leant in to steal another kiss from lips sweetened by liquor. He was bolder this time, his fingers tightening in the other man's hair, backing him up and into the wall again to playfully pin him there. ronin the long and lonesome road