#{leon feels oh so fatherly over him though I CRY}

[nightslain]

@lovesake​ said: i remember what you said last night || FEARLESS

             “I worry that I did not say quite what I meant. I haven’t been altogether in my right mind for...quite some time. Forgive me that, won’t you?” The king’s smile is tiredly sweet when he turns to meet the other man’s gaze. Sorrow settles somewhere with fondness in the dawn-blue of the Belmont’s eyes, nostalgia softening his timeless face as he looks the dhampir round and through. All his angles and planes familiar, all of them harkening back to a man long dead. All of them too so very unique. All of them aching Leon’s heart with a feeling that is oh so bittersweet. 

                “I will tell you that I meant it fondly,” he ventures softly, the wine in hand set aside when his stomach turns too much to welcome it, “you are the very image of your father as I remember him. But what I meant to say is you are the very image of what was best in him. What was bright, what was good. Not what he became. You remind me very much of his first wife too. For as much as I mourn them still, to see you here makes me...happy.”

                 Laughter warms Leon’s voice, even brightens his melancholy eyes with some quiet kind of joy as he glances into the roaring gold of the hearth. “And for all I have suffered, I am glad that because of it, I were able to meet you. You don’t know how much I hoped that I would when I heard that there was a son.”