say you'll stay with me tonight

REMI

the alchemist

Walk me home in the dead of night,
'Cause I can't be alone with all that's on my mind

"Yes, I do." Remi countered, his voice like steel and his eyes just as hard. Everything he'd built here, his entire life in Torchline, was founded on that principle. Only Ronin mattered to him—and Vai too of course—in a way that was meaningful. Should he die, Torchline would find a new governor. He was not Seren's father. He'd made no other friends.

"Torchline has never depended on me. Its never depended on any one person." But I do, went unsaid. Though he didn't step forward, the distance between them seemed to diminish slightly as Remi took a deep breath, his lungs filling as he seemed to decide just what it was he would do. Part of him almost wishes Vai was a formidable opponent, for at least then there would be a proper physical barrier. But what she was, was perhaps so much worse. Because it was the threat of her disappointment that held the Alchemist in place.

Whether or not that was stronger a motivator than Remi's own need, was a question soon to be answered.

So say you'll stay with me tonight.
'Cause there is so much wrong going on outside

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!