@worldly-diversity asked: "I don't know how I got to be this lucky, but I'd do anything to keep you." || Cloud || inspired by that meme's tone but nothing on there suited, so here I am xD 𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 - ACCEPTING
It would be a first for anyone to consider Roche a token of luck. Bad luck perhaps, in most cases anyway. But Cloud had been speaking so freely lately, slowly shedding his outer skin to reveal this sensitive soul beneath who craved to be nurtured, tended to and cared for.
For all of those things Roche had only truly dreamed of in the darkest hours, where the cold would touch his skin and the abject loneliness would creep behind the cage of his chest and consume from within. No one wanted him, not his mother, not the infantry, SOLDIER… forever a mission to simply belong - somewhere, anywhere at all.
But with Cloud… none of that mattered anymore. A place to belong, to feel warm and wanted when the icy chill isolation would bring, threatened to touch upon his skin. And those words, heartfelt, honest, spoken from a heart as golden as the hair atop the other’s head, Roche would draw him closer, a warm smile curling at the corners of his mouth.
“Then your efforts have come to fruition, no? For as long as my mind remains sharp, I’m yours~ Though I ask you just one small favour, Cloud…” a light pause, to have this man drink in the sentiment he had yet to deliver, for himself to take another glance within those deep oceanic eyes as though this would be the last he would ever be fortunate enough to see them.
“... My heart is fragile, take good care of it for me, hm~?”
