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a man for flowers ✿ ( INIGO ) ([personal profile] flatteries) wrote in [personal profile] blitzcheer 2022-02-17 10:42 pm (UTC)

It's always been hard for Inigo to accept those words. Maybe exactly because of what Tidus is saying here - that Inigo always had to fight, and that back home there never was anyone else to do it. That their faint numbers were already way too little to fight all of the hurt in the world, to try and save a dying world that was slowly slipping away between their fingers.

It makes it hard to believe those words now. That it really is alright, that there are other people who can take care of things. That everything will be okay, even if Inigo sits back for a moment. Even if he isn't putting himself through the wringer just to do as much as he can. Inigo couldn't believe the words when coming from the Ministry, still pushing himself, but..

.. it's a lot harder to discard those words now. When they're coming from Tidus, and his pleading puppy eyes.

"Okay."

For you, he thinks. Because Inigo is awful at accepting anything for himself, but he'll tell himself that he will do this for Tidus's sake, so the other won't have to worry about him as much.

"We can shower first. And then maybe, um. Nap?"

It feels indulgent, especially since napping surely will take longer than taking a shower. But if Inigo tries to put himself past the guilt of standing by, then he knows what he truly wants to do deep down in his heart is to just curl up with Tidus on a bed and pretend like there's nothing else in the world for a little bit. To just fill his entire world up to be only Tidus for a while, and to have that be okay.

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