my heart is yours to break

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

It's childish, but Remi has the sudden and overwhelming urge to jump at Ronin as he walks away; to wrap his arms and legs around the Star to see how long he could run in circles on the main floor of what might be their new home, with Remi on his back.

Biting the inside of his cheek as if suddenly aware of how much he'd been smile, Remi nods as he realizes just how true his husband's words are. "It has been a very long time since its felt like there's been anything worth smiling this much about." Moments with Mateo and Ronin were fleeting, time spent apart was lacklustre, and time spent together? Terse. Until now, anyway.

Remi nods, distractedly; yes, flying would be better than the nimbus.

"Ronin?" Caught in the sunlight streaming through the dusty windows, Remi's eyes are sea-bright and warm. He looks (and feels) lighter for all the knots he and Ronin have untangled, and though the alchemist is young in one sense, his hesitant and bashful smile seems to wipe clean the frown lines so often present these days. "I love you." Softly said and punctuated only by the dimpling of one of Remi's cheeks, the alchemist swallows hard, as if having said the words just now for the first time.

The Lullaby