a line at the edge

REMI ABRUZZO When these weary days, when these days are done We'll be in the sun "I have ... never been prone to violence." Remi admitted softly into the silence. Though to someone as well-trained as Ashe was, surely that would not have been a surprise. Even so—and perhaps especially with his lion form—he was quite capable of horrible things. "..but I heard someone speaking of what happened, and they did not even know Ronin's name.." His lips twitched upwards into the shape of a smile, but his expression was instead one of sadness. "I cannot remember a time lately when I have been so immediately angry, even though I understood...so many here never knew him, how could they possibly know his name. And yet.." With a hollow sort of half-laugh, the alchemist frowned and shook his head uselessly. As Ashe slipped against him, Remi raised an arm to easily welcome her against him. Once upon a time Remi had been free and easy with physical contact—with women anyways. Now with so much confused and complicated in his mind—his memories of Loren gone and those with Ronin obscured, Sam coming into his life and then choosing to forget him, Ianto gone entirely—the alchemist was quite starved for affection. Only now he was guarded in a way that he had never been before. His heart had always been on his sleeve, bleeding for all to see. But now he hid it, for he wasn't sure what else it could possibly take. But like the wolf, lions were pack animals. And strange siblings though they might have been, love and heartbreak had now bound them together. "When Aoife is old enough to know what she is looking at..who.." It would what? Be good enough? Would let her know what her father had looked like? And what good would that be, with Remi as a poor replacement in this strange world where her parents looked down on her as stars? Gently his arm tightened around Ashe, though his eyes remained on the portrait. "I love you, Ashe.  I...I only told Ronin at the end. Just before he...well. Before Safrin did what she did." Looking down at his much more petite counterpart, Remi tried on a smile despite how weighty it suddenly seemed. "I'd not have the same happen with you. Or worse, not at all." When these weary days, when these days are through I'll be working my way back to you