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[temperedinpride]

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[temperedinpride]

Mm. Well if you like you can spend more time in my soul when we are gone from this place. And--well the dreams are good, but they are not--it's better, when it's real. I suppose like your fighting. There is something to reality that the dreams can never capture.

[auguryofinnocence]

I wouldn't forgive you if that was meant to be the one and only time. And of course dreams are never quite the same...

[temperedinpride]

That would be cruel of me. But I am not so masochistic to endure never having you as part of me again.

[He sits up enough to lean over Vergil, kissing him softly.]

[auguryofinnocence]

[He lifts a hand to run his fingers through Lahabrea's hair ans hold him there a little longer.]

Ah, good. You can have it any time you wish of course. ...Although I would much prefer to wake next to you after.

[temperedinpride]

And what about any time you wish?

[auguryofinnocence]

Well I have much less control over it. Naturally I can ask, but you have the ability to simply invade my dreams if it strikes you.

Besides I would wish for it always.

[temperedinpride]

Then when I sleep beside you. So you will not wake alone.

[auguryofinnocence]

...That would be wonderful.

[temperedinpride]

Naturally.

[He does sit up more, taking Vergil's hands in his to kiss them.]

Now, perhaps your heart will be eased a bit from the doubts that shadow it?

[auguryofinnocence]

Mm, it...does feel foolish to worry about anything after that. I already knew that. But it is calming.

[temperedinpride]

I did promise you I would soothe your worries, bit by bit. It is all right you know, to still have insecurities. Just know I will outlast all of them.

[auguryofinnocence]

...I know. I don't want them and you shouldn't have to put up with them. But I do know.

[temperedinpride]

I do not mind them Vergil. You put up with my own problems. My own fears and foibles.

I want you to be content and happy and unafraid, naturally, but it is not as if I do not accept the things that make you doubt yourself. All of you, you love and your demonic tendencies, the parts of you that are the most considerate and kind along with the fears and the callousness, is there any part of you I do not love?

[auguryofinnocence]

[He laughs a little, despite blushing.]

I don't know is there? You love even callousness?

[temperedinpride]

Indeed. Though I may also yell at you if you are ever too callous. Quite the contradiction isn't it? I am hopelessly in love with you.

[auguryofinnocence]

No I think that is just right, you should yell at me if I am unbearable. If you are so hopeless though, i can only be smug...

[temperedinpride]

As you should be. I'm a hard man to win so thoroughly.

[auguryofinnocence]

Oh, I know it better than anyone.

[temperedinpride]

[He laughs softly.]

Did I give you a rough time, Vergil?

[Trading but also he knows Vergil suffered.]

[auguryofinnocence]

Well there was an awful lot of pining...

[temperedinpride]

Did you feel like a Victorian romantic heroine or should we try again?

[auguryofinnocence]

Oh I wouldn't say romantic heroine, but perhaps adjacent - Sibyl Vane? Wasting away, my innocence and heart ruined by a cruel, seductive, unageing man with no intent to keep me... Blond, too.

[temperedinpride]

My, did I never tell you of the portrait that gives me eternal youth?

But seductive? Really?

[auguryofinnocence]

[He laughs. Thanks for always reading the books he shoves at you, it's sweet.]

Why not seductive? You can be. Even if only selectively.

[temperedinpride]

[He likes getting into Vergil's interests!]

I just never considered myself such. Certainly I could be if I wished, but I wonder if you are not biased.

But I'll accept that bias. If you find me seductive, all the better.