inbox;

[likeiron]

@ogreslayer

text · voice

©

Comments

[thecodexabides]

It's not like he did it on purpose just to piss her off.

"It was either you or me. I made the obvious choice." She had a complicated network of friends and loved ones here. He had...a cat. And a goddess sort of girlfriend who had accepted his loss with the stoic acceptance he would have expected from her.

[likeiron]

"But if our roles were reversed, you would be mad at me for doing the same thing."

[thecodexabides]

"Yes." He's not going to lie, after all. "Because sacrificing myself for others is my duty. It is not yours." Get your own schtick, Nina.

[likeiron]

"I don't give a fuck about duty. If the choice was to save your life and die trying, I'd take it. No question. The fuck would you do? Stop me?"

[thecodexabides]

"Yes." Like. Duh. Of course he'd try to stop you from sacrificing yourself for him. "Nina. This is what I chose. What I pledged my life to. Your life is pledged to others. Alive."