[Abruptly, Ren finds his joke isn’t very funny. His jovial demeanor deflates, and an all-too-familiar ache overtakes his heart. Akechi never should have reached a position where violence was easier to accept than simple affection.]
I don’t want to hurt you.
[Ren never wanted to hurt him. Not even when they were legitimately at odds with each other, hurling their heaviest spells at each other in battle. Ren never took any pleasure in those attacks, even as he knew they were necessary.]
I don’t want you to be hurt anymore.
[If Ren had the ability to siphon out every ounce of the pain Akechi carries inside and absorb it himself like a sponge, he would do it in a heartbeat. Silently, he laments that this ability is missing from his set of skills. All Ren can think to offer instead is to carefully wrap his arms around Akechi and pull him into a solid hug, like he’d done once before in the dream they’d shared.
His focus is so firmly fixed on holding Akechi and trying to communicate all of his righteous anger and sadness and sympathy for the other teen through touch that he almost doesn’t notice the faint glimmer of green energy that begins to gently wrap around them.]
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I don’t want to hurt you.
[Ren never wanted to hurt him. Not even when they were legitimately at odds with each other, hurling their heaviest spells at each other in battle. Ren never took any pleasure in those attacks, even as he knew they were necessary.]
I don’t want you to be hurt anymore.
[If Ren had the ability to siphon out every ounce of the pain Akechi carries inside and absorb it himself like a sponge, he would do it in a heartbeat. Silently, he laments that this ability is missing from his set of skills. All Ren can think to offer instead is to carefully wrap his arms around Akechi and pull him into a solid hug, like he’d done once before in the dream they’d shared.
His focus is so firmly fixed on holding Akechi and trying to communicate all of his righteous anger and sadness and sympathy for the other teen through touch that he almost doesn’t notice the faint glimmer of green energy that begins to gently wrap around them.]
… Huh?