say you will

Iroh’s experience began and ended with Banshee when it came to real relationships. He’d told her he loved her, and he’d felt so strongly for the warrioress. Then just like she’d never even existed she was gone. Maybe that was a reason why Iroh was drawn so strongly to Elise, he’d known what it was like to give your heart away and then lose that wolf. He wanted to give Elise his heart. It was more than just attraction or the desire to make sure he got everything done that he needed to before he died. He had so much to experience he had to take his life into his own paws. He wouldn’t be like Aureus.

Elise was often on his mind, especially now that he’d been forcing himself to visualize the future for himself. He couldn’t wait for Pyrrhic or Eligos to live his life for him. Iroh had to take what he wanted and make life bend to his will like the god that he was. Had he been taking a back seat for so long? He wasn’t sure what the future held but as Elise sat so close beside him he knew what he wanted it to look like.

As his features brushed against her own she returned his affection, it felt so natural to be like this with her. The way she spoke, her words soft and echoing his own made his heart skip as he closed blue and lavender eyes and leaned into her touch. He could hear the honesty in her voice and he knew that she felt the same as he did.

”Being apart from you is getting harder and harder, Elise.” He confessed further as his dark striped tail wrapped around her hips possessively. He knew how carefully he had to tread. She was like some wild filly that would not be tamed but Iroh wanted her so bad. ”I don’t want to say goodbye again.” He told her as he aimed to press his forehead to hers. These emotions were real and overwhelming. ”I need you beside me.”