i met you in the dark

Segin waited for some kind of fall out, some kind of revolt the same way his adoptive mother had looked at him when he told her. It wasn’t enough that he had watched Cygnus die and he had been assaulted by his father. It wasn’t even enough for him to be afraid that he would adopt his father’s crazed ideas with the slippery slope of murder. She had to rub salt in the wound, condemn him for dooming them all to death by killing their father. He could understand that they were afraid of how they would care for themselves no since their father had been the hunter and protector of the bunch - since he wouldn’t let any of them do it themselves - but… Did no one else see the horrors like he did? Was their mother too lost in her own mind to see how the women that she called daughters had suffered?

It made him sick to his stomach to think about and he was grateful when Indigo only reacted by kissing the top of his head and giving his sympathies. He felt Indigo squeeze him tighter and there was such a comfort in that and a belonging that he didn’t really know how to process in his words of promise that he wouldn’t let him go. Segin shifted a bit in Indigo’s embrace until he was laying on his side facing the larger man’s chest, pressing his face into the thick fur around his neck and holding on to pawfuls of his mane as if that might steady him. And in a way it did. It reminded him that he was safe here in this cave, tucked away from the world in Indigo’s embrace. He curled into that feeling, letting himself be comforted by this man that owed him nothing and yet seemed to still give him everything he could possibly want.

“You’ve been so kind… Doing all of this for me, giving me a home,” he said after several moments of laying like this, lifting his head so his bright eyes could find Indigo’s. He searched his handsome features while he tried to ignore the fluttering his heart did in his chest and the warm electricity that spread under his skin. “Is there anything I can do to repay you? Anything at all?”