The Cursed Light

15

Roman held Virgil in his arms while he cried the quilt eating him alive. He had hurt his beloved stormcloud. He had almost killed him. What possible could have happened to make him want to hurt Virgil like this. With shaking hands Roman picked up the ring on the ground and held it out to Virgil.
“What are you waiting for? Princy put it back on,” Virgil said holding out his hand the ruby from his engagement ring glinting.
“Are you sure you still want to be married to me?” Roman asked, his voice shaking worse than his hands.
“Of course I do Roman,” Virgil said, hurt that Roman would even imply that he wouldn’t want to be his husband.
“But I hurt you so much. I was awful to you. I almost killed you,” Roman cried.
Opting to never tell Roman what he had said before he fell asleep Virgil said, “If I didn’t want to be married to you I would have given up on getting you back a long time ago my prince.”
“How come you didn’t give up and move on?” Roman asked.
“Remember what I said in my vows?” Virgil asked and kissed Roman’s temple, “I’ll love you and stay by you no matter if cursed to sleep if you grow to hate me. If you wish me to ever leave I shall go and miss you till the day I fade away. You’re my princy. I didn’t move on because you're my prince charming Roman. I love you Roman. I will only ever love you.”
“What did I ever do to deserve you, Virge?” Roman said, throwing himself into Virgil’s arms.
“I could say the same thing Ro,” Virgil said and pulled him into a kiss.
“I’m sorry,” Roman said when he pulled away.
“If you apologize again I’m making you sleep on the couch,” Virgil jokes.
“You wouldn’t,” Roman said.
“You’re right,” Virgil said and pulled him into another longer kiss filled with words neither could find the words to say.
“I love you my dark knight,” Roman said and kissed him again.
“I love you to my prince,” Virgil said.
Roman snapped them into comfy pajamas and carried his beloved husband to their old bed and they curled up under the comforter. Virgil snuggled up to Roman and placed his head in the crook of the royal traits neck and purred. Roman ran his fingers through the smaller man's hair and kissed the top of his head.
“I’m glad I didn’t give up,” Virgil said.
“So am I,” Roman said, “How did this end up happening anyways.”
“Dragonwitch,” Virgil said.
“I’m gonna kill her,” Roman said.
“Remus already tortured her to death,” Virgil said.
“What did she do?” Roman asked.
“A curse. She cursed your light sides to turn your love to hate,” Virgil said.
“That’s fucked up,” Roman said.
“I know Ro,” Virgil said.
“So every time you’ve done what in my cursed state thought was suspicious you were trying to figure out how to break the curse,” Roman asked.
“Yeah,” Virgil said.
“Damn,” Roman said.
“That sums that up,” Virgil said.
“Oh god. That morning. When you walked into the living room,” Roman said and felt like crying.
“The day the curse began,” Virgil said.
“I felt like I had done something horrible and now I know what I did,” Roman said.
“Don’t do that to yourself please Roman. It won’t bring anything good I promise,” Virgil said.
“But-”
“No,” Virgil said and kissed him.
“I love you so much,” Roman said.
“And I you,” Virgil said, “Now I’m about to pass out so could you sing till I fall asleep like you used to?”
“Of course Stormcloud,” Roman said.
“Can't count the years on one hand that we've been together
I need the other one to hold you
Make you feel, make you feel better
It's not a walk in the park to love each other
But when our fingers interlock, can't deny, can't deny, you're the worth it
'Cause after all this time
I'm still into you
I should be over all the butterflies but I'm into you, I'm into you
And even baby our worst nights
I'm into you, I'm into you
Let 'em wonder how we got this far,
'Cause I don't really need to wonder at all
Yeah, after all this time
I'm still into you” Roman sang.
Virgil snored softly and Roman stopped. He kissed the top of his head and fell asleep a few moments later in the arms of his one true love once again.