[ He wants to escape to the shower not because he thinks that the shower is going to magically fix everything, but because he's a coward. Because the shower is an escape, an excuse for him to leave and not have to deal with the very real sight of Noctis in front of him. ]
She isn't married.
[ Ignis' voice is gentle, the same tone he's used a thousand times over when delivering difficult news to Noctis. This, of course, isn't nearly the same as any of the other news he's had to deliver up to this point. This is another beast, something awful in a different way because they can't fight it. There's no battle to win, no way for them to persevere in the face of everything in their way. This is life and there's nothing they can do to avoid it. All they can do is find a way to live with it.
Noctis' hand slides up, cups his face, strokes over scar and skin and brushes back his hair and it's so, so intimate that every inch of him aches in response. Octavia -- Noctis' wife, damn everything, his wife is waiting in their bedroom while Ignis looks at her husband and wants so fiercely it's like nothing else. How long will you last this time, he asks himself and already knows the answer. ]
We're no longer children, Your Majesty. [ The title isn't meant to hurt but he knows that it has the power to cut just as surely as his daggers. ] Love isn't enough, sometimes.
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She isn't married.
[ Ignis' voice is gentle, the same tone he's used a thousand times over when delivering difficult news to Noctis. This, of course, isn't nearly the same as any of the other news he's had to deliver up to this point. This is another beast, something awful in a different way because they can't fight it. There's no battle to win, no way for them to persevere in the face of everything in their way. This is life and there's nothing they can do to avoid it. All they can do is find a way to live with it.
Noctis' hand slides up, cups his face, strokes over scar and skin and brushes back his hair and it's so, so intimate that every inch of him aches in response. Octavia -- Noctis' wife, damn everything, his wife is waiting in their bedroom while Ignis looks at her husband and wants so fiercely it's like nothing else. How long will you last this time, he asks himself and already knows the answer. ]
We're no longer children, Your Majesty. [ The title isn't meant to hurt but he knows that it has the power to cut just as surely as his daggers. ] Love isn't enough, sometimes.