[ she is, always, included in that number, though he would be remiss to consider anything to do with her or his feelings for her a "mess." a complication, perhaps, but nothing unwanted; nothing so tawdry or unimportant to merit a baseless adjective.
just as his friendship with lucifer is complicated and valuable, so is she and all things related to her in his heart. he is no fool in love, though he has often been proven wrong to the contrary. he may gaze at her with the world and his heart in his eyes, but he is nothing if not realistic. pragmatic. opportunist though he is, his life is complex. his heart is a riddled and dissected organ and though parts of it could easily, and as he has hoped, be one day hers, it would be foolish to consider the possibility now.
(he couldn't entrust his heart to camille either, though perhaps it was more she couldn't entrust hers to him.)
and that's without considering how far removed she is from what she's lived.
none of that is reflected in his expression, nor consciously in his thoughts, in this moment. he lifts his brow and asks with a hint of that flirtation in his smile, ] Messes? Or warning labels?
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just as his friendship with lucifer is complicated and valuable, so is she and all things related to her in his heart. he is no fool in love, though he has often been proven wrong to the contrary. he may gaze at her with the world and his heart in his eyes, but he is nothing if not realistic. pragmatic. opportunist though he is, his life is complex. his heart is a riddled and dissected organ and though parts of it could easily, and as he has hoped, be one day hers, it would be foolish to consider the possibility now.
(he couldn't entrust his heart to camille either, though perhaps it was more she couldn't entrust hers to him.)
and that's without considering how far removed she is from what she's lived.
none of that is reflected in his expression, nor consciously in his thoughts, in this moment. he lifts his brow and asks with a hint of that flirtation in his smile, ] Messes? Or warning labels?