my heart is yours to break

right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up

Gods but the line between love and hate is thin. Remi doesn't hate Ronin, likely doesn't have it in him to do so, but the Star's low tone and reference to their previous correspondence has Remi's teeth grating together. "Yeah, and you made it clear you were only willing to be contrite for all of thirty seconds. So if we're going by things said in the past, we're—" Snapping his teeth around the words, the alchemist makes a fist that he presses between his eyes.

"This isn't about what happened with Sunjata. Or at least, not just about what happened." Remi says, swallowing hard and wondering if he dared open his eyes, would the face looking back at him look quite as punchable as it had done moments before?

"I think we've been acting like wearing wedding rings and having sex makes this a marriage." The alchemist says on the exhale of a shaky breath.

The Lullaby