I meant what I said before. If you want me to stay, I'll stay.
[Even though it's going to destroy him completely. He wants her, wants them both more than he's ever wanted anything else in his life. So he has no idea how he's meant to survive being in their presence. How he's meant to make it through the wedding, through the time they're all trapped here, in a world where sex is somehow even more commonplace than Lyonesse.
For Isolde though, he'll try.]
I knew you were engaged, but I didn't let that stop me from wanting you. If he ever finds out what we've done, I'm the one to be blamed. Don't let him hold any of it against you. Please.
( does mark value the currency of a promise enough not to resent her for it? she's not sure — he's not really the kind to take someone's word at face value. if he was, he wouldn't have lyonesse. )
you were just talking about leaving anyway. do you want to stay?
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[Even though it's going to destroy him completely. He wants her, wants them both more than he's ever wanted anything else in his life. So he has no idea how he's meant to survive being in their presence. How he's meant to make it through the wedding, through the time they're all trapped here, in a world where sex is somehow even more commonplace than Lyonesse.
For Isolde though, he'll try.]
I knew you were engaged, but I didn't let that stop me from wanting you. If he ever finds out what we've done, I'm the one to be blamed. Don't let him hold any of it against you. Please.
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in that argument, i'm the one more copable. i made the oath. i wear the ring.
( of course, tristan has a ring of his own that mark gave him — but it's different. )
maybe we should think about telling him, and letting him decide who to blame.
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It isn't the same with me though. I was sent to protect you, not fuck you every chance I could.
[And definitely not to fall in love with her.]
If we tell him, he might make me leave.
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( does mark value the currency of a promise enough not to resent her for it? she's not sure — he's not really the kind to take someone's word at face value. if he was, he wouldn't have lyonesse. )
you were just talking about leaving anyway. do you want to stay?
( with me. with him. with us. )
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[An immediate response, because that was never a question for him. Instead-]
The right thing for me to do would be to leave though. What use am I as a bodyguard if I can't be trusted with you? [No.] With either of you?
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for the record i think you'd do anything to protect me, which is a good quality in a bodyguard.
we can stop. but i don't want to be strangers with you. so don't
push me aside. okay? we'll be good.
( out loud, it'd be a question. we'll be good? are we capable? )