Walking Home (Open thread)

[Sarandon]

Sarandon didn't pull away. "My family. They'll never want to see me again," he murmured. "They'll chase me out, they'll burn my letters... I can't do that."

[Ruari 'Red' Manui]

"You will have a new family," Ruari said, his brows furrowing. He didn't understand this... it wasn't supposed to be like this. His mate was supposed to be overjoyed to come with him, not lagging behind and holding on to a life that in no way included him. "With me."

[Sarandon]

"My parents will be devastated! You don't understand..." He took his mate's hands, kissing them gently. "Please. I just can't. I can't do that to them. Not after Armand. I love them. How would you feel, leaving your family behind, knowing that you would never see them or hear from them again?"

[Ruari 'Red' Manui]

"It is something I would have to do if it meant keeping my mate," Ruari said softly. "Do not make me force you, beautiful."

[Sarandon]

"Can I at least write a note?" he asked, apined. "Can I at least come back to visit? Or leave an address they can reach me at?"

[Ruari 'Red' Manui]

"You may leave a note and perhaps in time you may visit. But I warn you, Sarandon, I live far from here and you 'will' be with me always."

[Sarandon]

"How far away?" he asked, worried. "Where is Zerca?"

[Ruari 'Red' Manui]

"Away from here, far away, it's really out of this world..." he moved a bit closer to teh strugglign boy, "But the travel was and will be worth it. It is a place where we can be free to love as men with men... together if you would but stop and think a moment." he said a bit agitated, he hated the thought of his mate not wishing to be with him, "Together..."

[Sarandon]

"Free..." He paused, thinking. Maybe... "Could my brother and his lover come?" he asked meekly. "To keep me company. If it's accepted there, if no one will view them with prejudice, they'd love it. And I'd like it. That way, I wouldn't be completely alone." He suddenly realised that what he said could be insulting and backtracked. "Not that I'd be alone with you, just... Well, it would be nice to have someone familiar with me when I'm there so that you aren't the only person that I know."

[Ruari 'Red' Manui]

Ruari sighed and rested his palmn to his forehead. "Our Shodan will likely tan my hide... but if it pleases you, beautiful. This you may do."

[Sarandon]

"Thank you!" He hugged the Zercan, then drew back, a little startled by his own boldness. "So, um, I should leave my parents a letter... They'll be upset, but..." He fished out some paper, writing a brief letter where he told them, not quite untruthfully, that he was going to live with Armand, but that he still loved them very much. It was with a heavy heart that he let the envaloppe drop onto his bed and packed a few things hastily into a bookbag to follow Ruari.