[RL with Zechs] [Crossplot]

[tyki_tock]

Tyki parked in front of the building and scanned the skyline. Fuck, there were Akuma here, too. he could see their irregular, bulbous shapes hanging here and there between the buildings.

As he stepped out of Hakuba's world-hopping car, one of the second-levels drifted towards him.

"Noah-sama...Noah-sama~ We kill for the Duke."Yes, yes, good for

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[tyki_tock]

Tyki returned the deeper kiss with interest, his arms tightening around Zechs despite the hard bits of metal poking him.

But he drew back after Zechs released his lips. "I can't truly blame you entirely," he allowed grudgingly.

Zechs was exactly right about how difficult this was and why. Tyki felt like he was falling, not in a moral way, but because he didn't know what to do with himself. He felt like he didn't know who he was.

"I don't know what I should do now," he said, but he knew immediately that it was a lie. There wasn't time for him to screw around, agonizing over this choice when he knew he'd already made it. He would protect his lovers and friends, and he would do what he needed to do to eliminate the threat to all the worlds, rather than just standing by like he'd intended to do.

"But I...suppose I should go kill some akuma," he said awkwardly. They were some of the most surreal words he had ever spoken.

[thricedeadwind]

Zechs nodded, drawing a hand through Tyki's long hair. This wasn't the end of this issue, even when his lover did feel more comfortable in his new path. He was right - the Earl would want to kill him. The other Noah, perhaps, also. Even though Zechs was relieved, he was also deathly afraid, all for Tyki's sake. Yet either decision would have been perilous. And he'd stand with him regardless

[tyki_tock]

Tyki hesitated, then leaned in to give Zechs another fierce kiss. When there was no more delaying the inevitable, he drew back just enough to lean his forehead against Zechs'.

"Promise me," he said, a little desperately. "Promise me that you won't go outside until I say it's safe. Don't open the door for anyone, either. They can impersonate humans."

He drew back a little further, searching Zechs' face. "Will you promise me? Please?"

[thricedeadwind]

Just as fiercely, Zechs kissed Tyki back - trying to communicate that support and love, though perhaps his fear was also apparent within the act. There were lives being threatened and lost outside, and they couldn't afford any delays, but all the same he was still extremely concerned. He only hoped Tyki wouldn't run into the Earl just yet. Or ever, if possible

[tyki_tock]

Tyki hesitated. "I don't know," he said. "Probably not, unless they realize my betrayal. And they're not terribly intelligent. It's unlikely that they'll know who you are, or what you mean to me."

He cupped Zechs' cheek. "Thank you, my love, for your promise. You can't know how much it helps to know that you'll be safe, at least, while I'm busy."

"I'll come back when I'm certain that I've done as much as I can do on this world." The enormity of what he was promising to do was only now beginning to hit him. Plans were beginning to percolate through his mind, but he tried not to think too hard about it right now.

He needed to at least get started destroying Akuma, before they started breeding. Cross and his cousins, and all the other worlds could wait.