Just found your giodesmari ask and I just NEED to hear this happy ending where Giovanni and Maria successfully court Desmond back into their bed (and heart) and that they fall even more for Desmond when they see how competent an Assassin he is. (Definitely makes Maria hot and bothered knowing Desmond allows her to tie him up and that he could still get out of it if he wanted to)
The Giovanni/Maria/Desmond idea and its mini sequel for those curious.
Ngl, we were milking the angst because that’s how we roll so… uuhh… have this?
“I liked it better when they weren’t together.”
“That’s a lie.”
“No. It’s the most honest truth I have ever said in my entire life.”
“Don’t you want your parents to be happy?”
Machiavelli immediately raised his hands in surrender when Claudia turned to glare at him.
“All I’m saying is that your words might be mistaken as…” Machiavelli lowered his hands cautiously, ready to raise them once more if his mentor’s dear daughter decided to make use of one of her throwing knives to purposely miss his neck by a centimeter, “… being against your parents’ love life.”
“They’re the worst.” Claudia complained with a groan, “They’re all so… so… loving and happy and…”
Claudia covered her face as she let out a muffled scream.
Machiavelli simply let her do what she wanted. It wasn’t like he could do anything else.
She said something muffled by her hands but Machiavelli had been trained by Desmond himself. He knew what she was trying to say.
And he simply stared at Claudia as he dryly stated, “Of course I would rather not hear about their nightly activities. I would have appreciated it if you hadn’t told me how my mentor is quite vocal during those activities.”
He rubbed the bridge of his nose as he added in a tone that could not hide his annoyance, “But I don’t have to hear about them to know about them. They were not truly being prudent in hiding the marks they left on the mentor’s body, after all.”
“Right?!” Claudia lowered her hands as she complained, “They’re the worst!”
“Yes.” Machiavelli agreed blandly, “The absolute worst.”
Absolutely the worst part of this entire thing was that he could no longer deny that he had become Claudia Auditore’s best friend in commiserating his mentor’s love life.