All That Glitters

"..Y..you didn't mean f-for this to happen, though." Sam immediately came back with. He could not accept any of this as Remi's fault. It had to be something that had happened to them at the fault of someone else, something they would overcome together. If Remi had any hand in it, intentional or not...it felt too much like a choice. Remi once again made good points towards biting, making Sam wonder if he wanted it. It was clearly a pleasurable experience for Remi as much as a confusing one, and had he really not wanted to Sam would have suffered through the maze by himself; he really did want the best for Remi. He wasn't even consciously trying to push them back towards anything resembling a relationship, not yet; he was just as lost as Remi as to how to approach this. "...I....I don't want t-to force anything on you. I don't....want th-this to be that. If...if...you e-end up l..liking me again. I'd want it t-to be for me, and no...not for the b-bite. Or be..because you feeling like you h-have to." With that said, it would be easiest to get out of the maze from drinking. He looked at Remi's neck, swallowed down the parts of him that immediately leapt at how delicious it would be. He stepped close and held out a hand to touch the side of Remi's neck, considering it. "It...is a b-bit more intimate, though. I don't wan...want to force that. It's..u-up to you." Samuel At seventeen, I started to starve myself I thought that love was a kind of emptiness And at least I understood then the hunger I felt And I didn't have to call it loneliness