He shouldn’t have told her. He shouldn’t, because there was no way to stop the crushed look on her face from being emblazoned in his head forever, indelibly. It was a hollowing thing, to recollect all the ways he’d hurt the people he loved best, to see things etched on their faces that they couldn’t hide and he couldn’t help. He felt as though he had broken two people’s hearts in two days, and if – well, if Daffy ended things here, then it would be three.
She was crying again, and Elias was close to crying too, and the past two days had been almost too much, like he was breaking at the bough. She’d given him permission to go, and he felt it splintering.
“No,” he said, with a newfound surge of calmness, an urge to fight before the fall. “That’s not what I wanted. I already told her that. I’m in love with you,” Elias protested, cupping her face in his hands to dissuade her from looking away. “And I hope you can forgive me, because I want it to be you. I want it to always be you.” Everything Daff had said, about every bad day, about sharing the burdens. If that was what they were doing here, sharing the worst, then he hoped to Merlin it hadn’t changed her mind, because he didn’t know what he’d do without her.
She was crying again, and Elias was close to crying too, and the past two days had been almost too much, like he was breaking at the bough. She’d given him permission to go, and he felt it splintering.
“No,” he said, with a newfound surge of calmness, an urge to fight before the fall. “That’s not what I wanted. I already told her that. I’m in love with you,” Elias protested, cupping her face in his hands to dissuade her from looking away. “And I hope you can forgive me, because I want it to be you. I want it to always be you.” Everything Daff had said, about every bad day, about sharing the burdens. If that was what they were doing here, sharing the worst, then he hoped to Merlin it hadn’t changed her mind, because he didn’t know what he’d do without her.
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