Unconditional Love | Human! Migo x Reader

A Devastating Truth

Warning: contains mentions of parental death, cheating, verbal and emotional abuse and neglect

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The longer you kept telling yourself it won't be worth it to tell Migo about your past, the more hurt you've been feeling. So far, you have been planning how you will tell him about what brought you here and your childhood upbringing. And so far, nothing good has ever come up. 

What if he hated you for it? Would he leave you for Meechee? Or any other girl, for that matter?

What if it was meant to bring you nothing but misery and solitude?

As of now, you sat in your bedroom of the apartment that you had bought some days ago with your own money. It was expensive, but you did manage to get by with some money from your hobbies outside of Percy's TV show, so it wasn't too hard. 

The doorbell signaled your visitor's arrival. Migo had asked you if he could drop by some time ago, so you complied. Now that you think about it, he had been bothered by something for the past few days since the union between humans and Yetis. No matter how many times you asked him what was wrong, he just gave small answers like "I'm fine" or "Everything's okay". 

But he had been raised by his father to always tell the truth, so he could be lying about something. It's something you're about to find out soon. 

You opened the door and stepped aside for him to enter the moment you saw him. "Hey, you came just in time," you greeted him. 

"Yeah, sorry if I took so long," Migo rubbed the back of his neck. Sure enough, the pained smile was still there. And you were no fool, nor were you one to be fooled. 

"Was there something you wanted to talk about?" You asked him after you stepped into your bedroom. 

Migo was unsure where to start. Should he blurt it out? Be blunt? Maybe he should keep lying. No, it would be too difficult to hold it all in. Whenever he looked at you, all he could feel was guilt. You could have died from when the Stonekeeper had you taken in that ice box, you could have lost your life back up in the village. 

Every day, he felt guilt.

"I'm sorry," he finally said. 

You were perplexed by him. "What?" You asked. 

"I'm sorry. For everything," Migo clarified with a remorseful look. He tried and failed not to look at you. 

"What do you mean?" 

"For--for leaving you...for hurting you..." 

"Migo...you're not making sense..." 

"When I had you in my arms...and the Stonekeeper took you and put you in that ice box...I didn't stop him..." Migo began pouring out the truth behind that painful part. Everything started pouring out of him. All the guilt, all the shame, all the pain. From the thought of not only having to betray his friends...but also nearly losing you. "You couldn't breathe--you couldn't breathe, and...I didn't stop him because I was such an idiot to believe a lie from a liar--" By then, he was starting to tear up, his voice nearly cracking. 

"Migo..." You took hold of his hands to get him to stop for a moment. "You mean...when I was fainting from high altitude sickness?" 

"Yes, that's what I was talking about!" Migo didn't mean to snap at you. He was too trapped in remorse and shame to even understand how he answered you. "And I regret it every day of my life! I couldn't stop thinking about how you were helpless and cold! I almost got you killed, for God's sake! And if it hadn't been for Meechee getting you out, I would've had to live with this damn guilt--" He was rambling now, and his multicolored eyes flowed with tears.