growsintheshade | [IC] continuations

[I'm confused how our conversation veered off this way]

Darc??

What isn't clear? I ordered you to stay at my side for the rest of your life!

I.. I could? I mean I'd like to??

But is it just because you're, er.. mad about Rider-san...?

Kh... Of course I'm angry about Iskander... but he'll wake up! A man like that can't just sleep forever. Why would I say this just because of him?

[rounds on him!!]

You... if you were to leave me... I don't know if I could bear the pain! You've made yourself my friend, and someone I... depend on...! When I'd sworn I would never do something like that again!

If we're going to continue any further... any further at all! I need a promise!

If it's about being your friend I promise it's really hard to get rid of me!

If.. If you mean more than that there's.. um, something I need to do first...

. . . I need you with me, until you die. This isn't just about friendship.

[oh my god] Jeez.. Do deimos get married?

Um, c'mon, I think the portal to the rainforest is open right now. I need to make sure it works... [DO YOU HAVE A SWORD ON YOU? DO WE NEED TO STOP FOR A WEAPON?]

[obviously i have a sword on me who do you take me for.]

. . . Some do! If I need to take you as a husband and Rapunzel as a wife then so be it. I refuse to experience living without either of you at this point! What do you want with the portal...

[OH MY GOD] Y-you don't have to marry me to keep me around! Especially if you like Rapunzel-san...!

The both of you are the same to me!! I-I don't want to live without you, do you understand?!

[Well I was walking but now I tripped]

I... I don't understand at all..! Is it really okay to say something like that when I haven't even shown you if I made any progress??

[IS THAT HOW THIS WORKS?? Don't I have to prove myself???]

. . . As if I ever wanted to feel this way, from the very beginning. . .

And yet you persisted! Every time! You did this to me!

If you've made progress... then show me!

O-oh. Er.. s-sorry? I mean.. I was gonna wait to get stuff right before declaring anything dramatic, I didn't mean to make you have to...

A-anyway, I think I've got it! I just wanna make sure there aren't lots of people around in case I'm wrong...

[Let's head to the portal room and hop on over to the rainforest base]

. . . Fine.

[I STILL DON'T HAVE ANY PROMISE 8U BUT SHOWING ME YOUR PROGRESS IS KIND OF LIKE KEEPING A PROMISE...]

[IT WAS TOTALLY A PROMISE I MADE THAT I NEED TO KEEP IN ORDER TO MOVE ON TO A NEW PROMISE so... OK picking one of the cleared-out, sideways rooms here that's kept for people who need to wait on this side for the portal to open.]

Um.. you ready?

Show me, Kengo.

[Nods, stepping back so Darc has space and then breathing for a moment, picturing the change, imagining that feeling of being pulled down into the dark and reminding himself it's not something he can't face...]

[Dropping to a crouch, shadows spreading out from him and congealing into familiar shapes, the form Darc saw when he first encountered Kengo's Were.]

[. . . Darc takes a deep breath, steeling himself.]

[Smiles. It's not a very Kengo kind of smile though.]

. . . Kengo's Were.

. . . You are a part of him, aren't you?

So, how about it? Your power, and your loyalty... I want all of it.

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