the things we hold are always the first to go
Ronin has his arms happily wound about his husband, though his eyes flutter open in shock at the sudden thunder of Remi’s pulse through his wedding band. ”Hey,” he begins softly, cut off by the Alchemist draping himself over him, by kisses and tear shiny eyes and needing to be close. His hands run through soft curls, one dropping to wrap around Remi’s hips, the other strumming gentle patterns down the length of his back.
The urgency and panic are enough to get his own heart beating faster, Ronin seeking out Remi’s lips to seal them with a kiss that is soft and slow and gentle, purposely opposite to the nervous energy building between them. ”Then don’t,” he murmurs, his voice barely beyond a whisper. ”I won’t risk this for anything, Remi. Whatever pass we gave each other, that was done when things were a lot different. When they weren’t like this.”
Brushing his nose over Remi’s, Ronin relishes his husband’s heat and weight, remembering not for the first time a promise made to himself about the Alchemist. So powerful and so infinitely fragile. ”I thought I was doing us a favour, by being open to everything,” he admits. ”But maybe there needs to be a line we don’t cross, you and I. To help stop from getting things wrong.”
The urgency and panic are enough to get his own heart beating faster, Ronin seeking out Remi’s lips to seal them with a kiss that is soft and slow and gentle, purposely opposite to the nervous energy building between them. ”Then don’t,” he murmurs, his voice barely beyond a whisper. ”I won’t risk this for anything, Remi. Whatever pass we gave each other, that was done when things were a lot different. When they weren’t like this.”
Brushing his nose over Remi’s, Ronin relishes his husband’s heat and weight, remembering not for the first time a promise made to himself about the Alchemist. So powerful and so infinitely fragile. ”I thought I was doing us a favour, by being open to everything,” he admits. ”But maybe there needs to be a line we don’t cross, you and I. To help stop from getting things wrong.”
