It's been months. Everything that has happened since that night in the castle could fill books. Akechi has become unbearably, impossibly important to him. So much so that the inevitability of life without him brings on soul-wracking grief; so much so that the knowledge of their tether across realities is a phenomenal comfort. All Maruki wants, in the end, is to have Akechi in his life – as an ally, as an enemy, as family, as a ghost. Anything. Anything.
That night in the castle, all he wanted was to understand.
Maruki understands all too well now. ]
You always ask me questions you know the answers to. [ His voice is rough, constricted, and he has to pause to half-gasp for as much air as he can get. ] Just because you don't like them doesn't make them less true. You already know that isn't what this is about.
[ Both hands wrap around Akechi's wrist then, trying to ease him off.
Maybe they'll wind up battling in this shitty tunnel ride. That would be pretty funny. ]
DEEP SIGH cw attempted strangulation
It's been months. Everything that has happened since that night in the castle could fill books. Akechi has become unbearably, impossibly important to him. So much so that the inevitability of life without him brings on soul-wracking grief; so much so that the knowledge of their tether across realities is a phenomenal comfort. All Maruki wants, in the end, is to have Akechi in his life – as an ally, as an enemy, as family, as a ghost. Anything. Anything.
That night in the castle, all he wanted was to understand.
Maruki understands all too well now. ]
You always ask me questions you know the answers to. [ His voice is rough, constricted, and he has to pause to half-gasp for as much air as he can get. ] Just because you don't like them doesn't make them less true. You already know that isn't what this is about.
[ Both hands wrap around Akechi's wrist then, trying to ease him off.
Maybe they'll wind up battling in this shitty tunnel ride. That would be pretty funny. ]
Let go of me.