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#Except...she is. Confused and guarded and soaked to the bone from the freak thunderstorm that started moments ago.
toasteaa · 2 months
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It's 1 am...why am I thinking about the time Neuv thought Eclair died in the explosion at the Fontaine Research Institute...
#toast talks#they'd been fighting before too...#I realized I had a better answer to the question Aid asked and it was how Neuv tried to get rid of his feelings for Eclair by avoiding her.#But he didn't think that by avoiding her she'd get so upset that she'd confront him about it.#And he was honest to a fault. Stating that she had been distracting him from his work and how work takes priority in the Palais.#He didn't say it was because he was developing too many feelings for her and couldn't allow himself to feel this way for her.#And it hurt the both of them. Enough to where they really avoided each other for some time - about a month or so.#Eclair wasn't doing the reports anymore (another garde was given that task) and so they saw each other even less.#Just a nod of 'Detective' and 'Your Honor' when they passed each other in the hall.#Then one random day Neuv gets a report about the explosion at the Institute and remembers that Eclair was supposed to be there.#That she was doing surveillance and investigative work there for a few days. And how he hasn't seen her in at least a week.#The way he goes uncomfortably cold and silent because it's happened again. He couldn't keep someone he cared about safe.#How he blindly follows the familiar path to Eclair's office but he knows she won't be there. Hesitates at the door because he#doesn't want to acknowledge the fact that she isn't in there. And she won't be in there ever again.#Except...she is. Confused and guarded and soaked to the bone from the freak thunderstorm that started moments ago.#Okay that's enough I'm rambling in the tags again GOOD NIGHT#eclairette
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