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Prompto Argentum ([personal profile] photoshooter) wrote in [personal profile] whichcraft 2018-08-08 05:49 pm (UTC)

[All the while she's talking about science class and parasites he's wincing, looking more and more crestfallen, and he's just about to look down--maybe permanently--when she says the thing that changes everything.

Instead of falling, his eyes pop back up, wide and blue as irises.

Like, want, need--they've all been one thing he's recognized by the lack in his life, the ache for it. But because of the shift here, the way Summer moves it from need, from something even she describes as impersonal and biological if not bad, to want, something in what Prompto hears shifts, too. Refracts. Something he understood as all one color hits a prism and, suddenly, there's so much to see.

Want is different from need. Want is different from like. Want is... it's specific. And it's active. And it's selfish, and it's nothing anyone's ever said to him, average to mediocre, forgettable, one of millions copied without the intention of becoming even 'just anyone.'

And she wants him.

He can't even ask for what, can't narrow down what she wants him for, symbiote or friend or something else entirely. Nobody ever liked him or needed him. I want you is a revelation.

And it's her. The canyon that stood between them in that silence of hers, she crossed it. For him. To tell him that, when she's been so hurt, so afraid...

She put blue tulips in his hair and he left her there.]


Did. You want the flowers, too? The crown I made, did... do you still want it?

[His mouth is realizing things before his head, running away from him the way he ran from her, and shock and the fluttering beginning of understanding gives way to guilt in the tightening of his eyes.]

Did I really make you think I didn't want to look at you?

[The first person ever to want him enough to tell him, and he turned into one more thing that hurt her?]

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