[ It's a distraction. Because anything beyond that -- invitations, temptations -- would be a mistake. It's already a mistake, and one that makes Hei feel at once possessive and near despair. He should really stop seeing her. Because it's dangerous to grow fond of someone entirely unsuited to him, someone he risks damaging by being no less than what he is. Dangerous to rely on what can be taken away so quickly, if she leaves the City, making the nights that follow all the blanker. It is fucked up to know all that, but still want her, and fucked up to put her through more shit when it'd be safer -- kinder -- to stay distant. Remote. ]
[ Remoteness is the greater favor. Not just strategically, like the Contractor he still is -- but more merciful, like the human Pai had reminded him he'll always be. ]
[ Yet Hei finds his eyes drifting across Korra's face, taking an inventory of her tousled hair and wan smile. Her gaze is pure blue, open -- and Hei can feel a white flame of want, an impossible hope, lick up the inside of his ribcage, singe his throat, make him swallow. ]
[ He doesn't say anything. He just blinks, once, twice, and by the third, something in the set of his jaw has softened. It's not Yes, but the way he extends a hand, pale fingers starfishing, is eloquent enough. ]
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Date: 2014-11-11 02:45 am (UTC)[ Remoteness is the greater favor. Not just strategically, like the Contractor he still is -- but more merciful, like the human Pai had reminded him he'll always be. ]
[ Yet Hei finds his eyes drifting across Korra's face, taking an inventory of her tousled hair and wan smile. Her gaze is pure blue, open -- and Hei can feel a white flame of want, an impossible hope, lick up the inside of his ribcage, singe his throat, make him swallow. ]
[ He doesn't say anything. He just blinks, once, twice, and by the third, something in the set of his jaw has softened. It's not Yes, but the way he extends a hand, pale fingers starfishing, is eloquent enough. ]