In a house upon the sea

With a delighted laugh, Remi curled an arm around Sam, holding the back of his neck as he rolled suddenly to his left, effectively reversing their positions. Though Sam's ascended strength was considerable, his body still weighed about the same and it was all too easy for the alchemist to suddenly be astride the bookmaker, gazing down at him playfully.

"Listen to you." Remi mocked lovingly, leaning down to kiss the space just before Sam's ear, pushing his face to the side with his jaw and trailing the kisses down to his shoulder. "You ought to be a writer or something." He added with another small laugh, his fingers curling into Sam's hair and gently moving it from his eyes.

"My dream aside, I do wonder sometimes what it would have been like if my memories had not been taken. If we never had to go through that strange period." Remi had told Sam once they'd re-found themselves and Sam's insecurities could take it, but bizarre it was to hear that he'd once been nearly-in love with the shy bookmaker. How impossible it had seemed then, and how much hesitation Remi had felt in those early days of doing on second first-dates. "If we could have just been right from the start."

I forgot what it was like, to think I found you finally
What if you were the one for me? I hope you weren't the one for me