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

What Remi had intended was to swing his arms around the witch, switching their places so that he was the one closer to the portal. It would only be a step or two for him to disappear away in its strange glow, and then? Then he would find Ronin, or die trying.

So when the pair tumbled to the ground, both surprised it seemed by the tug of gravity, Remi let out a strangled sound of frustration that might have been mistaken for mere grief. Pulling back if only to right himself and not squish Vai beneath him, the sight of tears sparkling in the low light did finally stop him in a way that even gravity might not have done successfully. Her kiss and kindness were both a bane and blessing and gods he hated her so much for loving him the way she did.

'All that assumes he'll come back, Vai.' Remi mumbled through lips which had suddenly gone quite dry. "And if he doesn't? I won't even be able to tell myself I tried to find him. I will feel his heart stop beating on my finger, sat next to a fucking bonfire."

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!