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Who: Asch and Natalia
Where: Starts out in Natalia's room, goes from there.
When: After The Lovers event.
What: Luke opened his big mouth, the stupid dreck. :|
Rating: G for utter fluff

He was going to kill that dreck.

This was pretty much a common occurrence and therefore, nothing really new. This time, however, he really longed to wrap his hands around the idiot's throat and shake him back and forth until he either passed out or something broke. It was because of that idiot that he found himself in the situation he was in: standing outside Natalia's door after all the chaos from the month had calmed down. This was not what he had ever wanted to do, not like this.

Hesitantly, he raised his hand, but it was like his fist didn't want to come down on the door. Like he was afraid his hand would be burned off if he even came close to touching it. After a moment, he took a deep breath, forcing himself to knock.

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"D-destroyed?" Van had made Luke destroy Akzeriuth? But why?! And more importantly, how? Luke would never willingly do such a thing, no matter how fond he might be of the Commandant! All those innocent people would no longer have anywhere to call home... The mines must have been their livelihoods. What would they do now? They had to find some way to save them!

The next words came from far away, but somehow they struck even more deeply.

"No!" She could barely hear her own voice. "Why are you telling me this? There must be some kind of mistake!"

It was at that precise moment Natalia's legs gave out from under her.

Asch let out a surprised noise, and it was a good thing he was already holding onto her, otherwise he probably wouldn't have been able to catch her in time. He held onto her arms tightly, giving her a stern look.

"Natalia," he began, his tone firm. "This is why I hesitated to tell you who I was. I don't know how long we'll have together here... I didn't want you to suffer, knowing what will become of me."

He let out a breath, calming slightly. "...but at the same time, I couldn't not tell you, and go day by day knowing that I was holding something terrible from you.

"But you are Kimlasca's princess. Your strength and your kindness are what the people look up to. You will find a way to endure this, and everything else that may happen from now till then."

Whatever Asch was saying didn't have much of an effect. It felt as though someone had stuffed cotton into her ears and muted most of the sound. She still wasn't supporting her own weight, and the tears were streaming down her face.

She wasn't as strong or as kind as he thought she was. The only reason she had any strength at all was because Asch and Father had instilled that in her. Because she had to. The only reason she was kind was because Asch had taught her to care about their people. How could she change Kimlasca without him?

How could he die?

Natalia's only response was to shake her head slowly.

...she wasn't listening to him. Why wasn't she listening to him?

"Natalia!"

...then again, he did dump a lot on her lap all at once. He let out a faint sigh, half carrying, half dragging her over to sit on the bed.

'Don't drag us down, Natalia.' It was what Luke had said back then, and it was what Natalia was currently doing - and doing rather literally.

She found herself sitting on the edge of her bed, and it took another moment for her to compose herself, brushing away tears with the back of a gloved hand. She had to look absolutely awful. This wasn't the side of herself that she wanted to show Asch at all, the side that was weak and emotional. She needed to be strong right now.

With an effort, Natalia managed to pull herself together and murmured quietly, "Isn't there anything we can do to stop it...now that we know?"

...well now he felt like an ass. Asch took a deep breath, hesitantly reaching down and grasping her hand.

"...I don't know," he murmured softly. "I don't know if we'll even remember all of this when we return to Auldrant."

"But we both remember what happened on Auldrant, even though we're currently in Prospero. We shouldn't rule out the possibility." It might have been that she simply didn't want to rule it out, but either way she felt strongly about it. If a death could be prevented somehow, then should they not try?

She took a breath, trying to ignore the weariness that was setting in.

"...Thank you for coming here and telling me all of this. Even though..." Even though she behaved like a little child. "I'm grateful."

He wasn't going to hold his breath on that one, though it would be nice. Then again, at the same time, they could know the future all they wanted... and maybe their actions in trying to prevent it would make it come true anyway.

...working in the Order for so long left him very cynical when it came to knowing the future.

"I understand," he replied, giving her hand a squeeze. "I... may be different from what I was back then, but... the only thing with me that will never change his how much I care about you."

Oh Lorelei, that sounded so corny. He turned away at that, trying not to turn red.

The lack of a response said enough. Natalia supposed that Asch didn't have much hope invested in her plan; perhaps Luke would have other thoughts about the future.

Luke...

Natalia mentally scolded herself. Her thoughts and feelings on the matter were still in a jumble. It helped that she had become able to distinguish the two, but now Luke was not Luke and Asch was Luke...only not. So then were neither of them "Luke" at all?

No, that wasn't quite it. Luke's heart was right here. Blushing, Natalia carefully placed her free hand over his, a faint smile playing on her face.

A faint smile worked its way onto Asch's face. There, that was better; seeing her smile again made his heart do funny things in his chest. Damn, Van; how could he have lived without her close to him for so long?

"Everything will be all right," he murmured softly. "I promise."

Natalia wondered how Asch could even say such a thing. Everything was far from all right, and judging by what she now knew, a very difficult path lay ahead of them all.

But they could still try. To make it all right.

"Pinky swear?" Natalia asked lightly, knowing full well that he hated pinky swearing and would most likely refuse altogether.

As expected, Asch made a face at the suggestion.

"Don't be ridiculous," he muttered.

One might have argued that a refusal was nothing to be happy about, but Natalia just smiled.

There was something else that hadn't changed.

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