The hostility in Set's face crumbles, because isn't it obvious that he's just spoiling for a fight? That he'd rather brawl with words or fists than think about what happened? About Quetzalcoatl dying, about the man now in his care — the promise he'd made to Anubis ( D, it's D........ ), about Silco's end-that-is-and-is-not. Matt's eyes are wet, and slowly, quietly — the war god's are too. Because they're not crying for themselves, it's for... it's for her. ]
— she was going to come home with me.
[ He says it, quiet and hollow and miserable. ]
She was going to choose me, help me. We never would have met if not for Oblivion and Kenos, and now we will never meet again.
[ He relinquishes all hold on Matt, and instead collapses onto one hip at the end of the bed. Head lowered and hair spilling hot and blood red across the mattress. It's such a loss, a painful loss. Both a god, and family that chose him. Matt puts some distance between them, and Set finally mumbles: ] Sorry. I'm sorry, too. For scaring you.
[ He says it for Quetzalcoatl. Nothing more. His last fucking apology to anyone in this world who dares get in his way, whether they think so or not. ]
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The hostility in Set's face crumbles, because isn't it obvious that he's just spoiling for a fight? That he'd rather brawl with words or fists than think about what happened? About Quetzalcoatl dying, about the man now in his care — the promise he'd made to Anubis ( D, it's D........ ), about Silco's end-that-is-and-is-not. Matt's eyes are wet, and slowly, quietly — the war god's are too. Because they're not crying for themselves, it's for... it's for her. ]
— she was going to come home with me.
[ He says it, quiet and hollow and miserable. ]
She was going to choose me, help me. We never would have met if not for Oblivion and Kenos, and now we will never meet again.
[ He relinquishes all hold on Matt, and instead collapses onto one hip at the end of the bed. Head lowered and hair spilling hot and blood red across the mattress. It's such a loss, a painful loss. Both a god, and family that chose him. Matt puts some distance between them, and Set finally mumbles: ] Sorry. I'm sorry, too. For scaring you.
[ He says it for Quetzalcoatl. Nothing more. His last fucking apology to anyone in this world who dares get in his way, whether they think so or not. ]