"Not maliciously, but I do not think you can just use someone like that." Remi countered, shaking his head. "And what plenty of men do is not the point. Emmett might not want children now, but you nearly forced it upon him. You are right that he could have walked away and is not obligated, but I think we both know that is not the type of man he is. He would be obligated." The fact that he was raising his younger siblings was evidence enough of that.
With a sigh Remi smoothed down her hair, wrapping an arm around her and gently tracing patterns on her back with his fingertips.
"I am too. I did not mean to sound cross. Back in Northaven...back when I was trying to hide my affections towards men, there was a woman I was dating. Normally when it came to sex I found easy ways around ahh....shall we say hiding the fact I was not particularly aroused by her, but making her satisfied just the same. One day though she slipped something into my drink and that night when we were together, not only was my mind hazy but my body was seemingly free of its normal reservations." Remi did his best to talk around the awkwardness of the subject without drawing too much attention to it, the sufficient somber context making that a bit easier. "She said in the morning that she wanted a baby, and that she wanted it to be mine, but that I needn't have anything to do with the child's life if I did not want it. On the one hand it is my fault for not being honest with her I suppose, though in Northaven I am not sure what else I could have done. But on the other, even though I very much did not want a child with her, I would not have left it. I would have stayed and loved the child, but it would not have been what I wanted."
Running a hand through his curls, cheeks suddenly tinged with shocking pink, Remi sighed. "I am not saying you are like her or that you tricked Emmett. Just...that is why I reacted so strongly."
At the mention of someone other than Sam, Remi just chuckled. "Loren is not bad enough?" He said with a rueful grin. "No, it is not that...it...when Sam found out that Ludo took my memories of him, that we would have to start over, he..." Even now, it hurt to think about, and the alchemist let his head tip back and rest against the back of the couch for a moment as he closed his eyes. "He left me a note saying our time together had been educational, and that though he loved me, he did not want to obligate us further...he went to the Voice and had her take all of his memories of me. All that we were, just....gone." He said sadly.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
