Magnus smiled softly, the gentle love written in his expression making the tiny wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.
[color=#7CD98A]"Enough to know you were happy and that you were safe." [/color]Countless memories threatened to wash over him, but he let them slip away. It had been hard watching her in Frankie's arms. Heartbreaking. But he'd promised to be what she needed...and at the time she needed him to not be there. She had been truly and completely in love. And to preserve that, he'd stayed hidden in the shadows.
[color=#7CD98A]"I love you, Lara. You deserve all the happiness this world has to offer and, at the time, me waltzing in would have fucked that up. It was enough to just be near you, to keep you safe. To keep you both safe." [/color]
And he had. He'd killed many an assassin intent on ending the reign of the Campanas. The fact that he'd eventually failed in his efforts to protect Eularia and her heart was something he'd never forgive himself for. It sat in a little box next to the final memories of Zita and the warning signs he'd missed just before.
His body began to move with the music...mirroring the steps Frankie had taken so long ago. The motions were slow at first as he pulled E into the past.
She'd said she didn't know who she was anymore, but it wasn't true. She knew. She was still the girl who longed to be free, to be wild and reckless and live without fear. She was still there. But years of responsibility, of worry, of grief had buried that girl.
But she was still there. She would always be there.
Eularia was indomitable.
[color=#7CD98A]"Enough to know you were happy and that you were safe." [/color]Countless memories threatened to wash over him, but he let them slip away. It had been hard watching her in Frankie's arms. Heartbreaking. But he'd promised to be what she needed...and at the time she needed him to not be there. She had been truly and completely in love. And to preserve that, he'd stayed hidden in the shadows.
[color=#7CD98A]"I love you, Lara. You deserve all the happiness this world has to offer and, at the time, me waltzing in would have fucked that up. It was enough to just be near you, to keep you safe. To keep you both safe." [/color]
And he had. He'd killed many an assassin intent on ending the reign of the Campanas. The fact that he'd eventually failed in his efforts to protect Eularia and her heart was something he'd never forgive himself for. It sat in a little box next to the final memories of Zita and the warning signs he'd missed just before.
His body began to move with the music...mirroring the steps Frankie had taken so long ago. The motions were slow at first as he pulled E into the past.
She'd said she didn't know who she was anymore, but it wasn't true. She knew. She was still the girl who longed to be free, to be wild and reckless and live without fear. She was still there. But years of responsibility, of worry, of grief had buried that girl.
But she was still there. She would always be there.
Eularia was indomitable.
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