[Seasonal Event] Escape From/To You

"What?!" Remi asked immediately, taking a few hasty and shuffling steps forward both trying to keep his footfalls and the volume of his voice low, but his rising panic made his hastiness obvious. However as Sam said that there was nothing here for him, Remi stopped, flinching as if Sam had struck him again. Of all the things he'd never expected from Sam, this casual cruelness was nearing the top of the list. He could understand the way the bookmaker had lashed out and hit him, even the words he'd spoken in anger. But now? With a few hours and a sea of tears between them? I love you yesterday, and you are nothing to me today? The words were like fresh lashings on the wounds that Sam had already opened. Someone else might have told the ascended to grow the fuck up and stop being such a child, but of course the alchemist was far too kind for that. Too kind, too bruised, too broken. "I am just going to make sure she is alright. There is only one luxere outside to protect her." Remi returned wearily, the light in his pale gaze nearly extinguished now. "Sam you cannot leave ... it is far too dangerous. Please, stay. I ..." Emotion choked his throat, and though the alchemist was far too weary to bother to swallow it down, he did sigh gently, running fingers through hair that had begun to sprout a multitude of feathers. Never before had the urge to simply become something four-legged that could be easily cuddled been so strong. But Sam's hands had begun to work on the latches again, and so Remi stepped closer. "..I will leave you alone, if that is what you want. But you cannot leave." REMI Loving you was sunshine, but then it poured & I lost so much more than my senses 'Cause loving you had consequences