Guardians.

We're broken.

Triggers- A N G S T. 

Virgil Roman

Getting to Virgil's tent was easy, getting into the tent was difficult. Romans' palms were sweaty and the wolf in him wanted to hide afraid of what the other could do, but he took a deep breath and calmed down his breathing and spoke, "Virgil.. can I talk to you?" there was a moment of silence and a flash of light through the gap in the entrance then Virgil was there,  eyes wide "roman? what are you doing here? i-i thought you wanted space?" he said carefully almost hesitant to speak, roman takes a moment, "can I come inside? we need to talk" 

Virgil nods slowly allowing roman to enter his tent, it was not the cleanest, but Virgil was never really tidy, to begin with, it made roman smile slightly at the sight. "what are you doing here roman? why do you want to talk?" he questions and sits on his bed, you could see he was closed off, worried he would hurt roman again. Roman clenched his fists to stem the shaking and sat next to him, "I wanted to talk about us... because we need to get things out in the air." Roman says carefully, to not provoke the other. Virgil remained silent. 

"I know that I have not been talking with you much and I understand that you may be upset by that... and I really appreciate you doing anything you can to help me get to where I am now.. and I want to try and fix this" Virgil had a storm of thoughts emotions going on in his mind all mixing into a tsunami that would crash out. Virgil bit his tongue to not say anything. 

Roman seemed to notice Virgil apprehension to speak, and slowly placed a hand of his shoulder just in case he didn't want to be touched, he didn't move. "I really appreciate all that you have done, even if it means that it was cutting yourself off from me, and i... did a lot of thinking about us and what we should do," he said looking at Virgil carefully to see the reaction, there was nothing, he looked numb. 

"I want us to see a couple's councillor, and I want us to work on getting better together.-" "why?" Virgil finally said, his voice cracked "why do you want to fix this? I hurt you and I made you cry so many times, why do you want to try and fix this? I broke you! I am broken" roman heard the small sound of anger but it wasn't there for long. "because we're both broken.. and I still love you, Virgil, you still mean the world to me." Virgil looked at the other in disbelief, "why do I mean so much to you if I hurt you?"

Roman thought about it for a second then remembered the mark he and Virgil shared, he took Virgil's left arm and pushed the hoodie sleeve up exposing the soul mark it was no longer the mark they had when they were teens, the crown was cracked and lost its golden shine and the stormcloud had greyed and faded like the storm was going away allowing the sun to come out sadly roman knew this wasn't good, he pointed to it "because I could never stay mad at you, I know your thinking this is a stupid reason Virgil and it makes sense, this only is a mark that can connect us, whether platonic or romantic Virgil, I will never be able to be mad at you. Our Marks intertwine together and share our stories our lives at just the look of it." Virgil looked away from roman and sniffed "I don't want to hurt you."

Roman realised he may have waited too long to talk to Virgil, "I know you don't, and I know you never meant to hurt me" roman took hold of Virgil's hands gently squeezing them Virgil looked roman in the eye, he was broken. he made next move letting go of Virgil's left hand and lifting his chin slightly, "we are both broken, but we can be fixed and made better stronger. We just need time" 

Virgil had tears well up in his eyes hearing roman speak, "c-can I hug?" Virgil asks and roman smiles softly moving forward to wrap his arms around the other Virgil moved his arms and draped them around Romans neck his head reading in the space between Romans neck and his shoulder breathing in Romans scent, it made him purr into the touch. roman smiled softly at Virgil's actions his wolf was quiet and knew that Virgil never meant any harm and his wolf was purring with the cat-man.

He had a thing he wanted to try, his wolf wanted it and so did he, "Virge?" he asks cautiously he hums "can I take the necklace off?" Virgil's purrs stop and he shuffles out of the embrace "are you sure? I don't want to hurt you" Roman nods "I want to know your mine," he says hearing that Virgil nods, so roman tenderly undoes clasp and instantly when the clasp was unlatched the smell came and Romans wolf was going berserk, but in a good way. 

He sighed happily the strong smell of coffee and rain filling his nose, Virgil looked at roman anxiously, "you ok Ro?" roman nods hugging Virgil tight " 'm fine" Virgil sighs relaxing into the closeness of roman, purring he nuzzles closer roman sighs happily being in the embrace of his soulmate.

"We're ok. Alright?"

"Ok."