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Silco ([personal profile] conflictresolution) wrote in [personal profile] traumaticus 2024-09-17 05:12 am (UTC)

[Secrets and lies and deceptions and power plays were all part of the games that had to be played. The strong would take advantage of the weak, but Zaun would always stand against Piltover regardless of one's strength. Petty squabbles, feuds, and bruised egos lead to gang wars and assassinations, and people in power lead by a tenuous thread, walking a dangerous line between ruthless effectiveness and pitiful downfalls.

He knew the game well, which was likely why he had never taken a lover in Zaun. His ambition took up too much time as well, but if he wanted to remain effective, an adoptive daughter was all that he could afford to keep close. He raised her to be ruthless and chaotic and violent, to take on the world that they lived in, but it did not usually make one a good ruler for long.

Yet, he leaned his face into Richard's hands, letting the simple gesture welcome him. When he had become so weak? When had he lost his edge to not simply take a calculated risk? He knew when, of course, but that weakness had followed him here, the downfall of an empire that had yet to recover. As he closed his blue eye, he listened to Richard's answer and realized the younger man skirted much of the answer in the same way that he did.

One and the same. Monsters in the dark finding brief solace in each other. Monsters carrying the weight of their past, personal weakness restraining their directness. Was he honestly going to let himself be what he despised as a youth?

Slowly his arms unwound from Richard's waist so that he could lift his hands to mimic the younger man's gesture as he took Richard's cheeks in his palms. He tipped the younger man's face up towards his, leaning down so that their lips were a whisper apart from one another.]


Lovers then, Richard. I will be loyal to you, and I expect you will be loyal to me. We do not stray to other's beds. [His heart rate increased slowly but surely.] I will safeguard your secrets, chase away your solitude, comfort you in your own personal torments when you need me to.

[His mismatched eyes bore into Richard's similar ones.] Betray me, and I will take revenge on you even if it takes me the rest of my lifetime. I expect the reverse to be a similar pledge. [He suddenly moved to push Richard back against the wall of the shower, crowding the younger man with his own body.] So don't betray me.

[He pressed his lips to Richard's, lingering there for almost a minute.] Shall I give you a secret to seal 'us'? To prove that I want this.

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