[ that's probably as much as he can manage, for now. the tension bleeds out of him and loki simply presses himself tightly against william. he places his forehead near william's wedding ring, the metal digging into his skin. ]
[ loki gives a faint nod. though he is a doubter by nature, by the life he's led. the lies that he was told that made him believe he was never worth the truth. any truth.
[It's a start. It's something to cling to when building out the foundations.]
It's true now. It will be true tomorrow. It will be true when your heart is ready to hold something free of doubt. [A delicate press of lips before he shifts to burrow in more properly, tangled and close.] While there's breath in my lungs and after it.
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William shifts just slightly, to murmur more properly against his husband's skin.]
Please know how much I love you.
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but he believes this. ]
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It's true now. It will be true tomorrow. It will be true when your heart is ready to hold something free of doubt. [A delicate press of lips before he shifts to burrow in more properly, tangled and close.] While there's breath in my lungs and after it.
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Certainty after each day.
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[That's what feels the most like love, really.]
end here?
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