Tate Langdon x Reader [PROMPT #5: “i don’t know what i’m feeling…” “regret?”]
Pairing: Tate Langdon x Reader Prompt: #5: “i don’t know what i’m feeling…” “regret?” Mood/Emotion: compassion Requested By: @msbhavn96
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Meeting Tate had been an odd experience, and the discovery of his true past -the one he had pushed down and tried to forget for so long- had not made the experience any more normal. Though, nothing in that house was normal. Had it not been for Tate constant reassuring you that none of the other... residents wouldn’t hurt you, you probably would’ve tried to leave the house a long time ago.
But, some part of you wanted to be there for Tate: so you stayed.
Not long after you had discovered that Tate was technically dead, you looked him up. You were shocked as you scrolled through the articles and looked over the photos... All that death- because of Tate? He had seemed a sweet boy. Odd, yes, but sweet nonetheless.
You kept staring at the page, so engrossed that when you heard a voice you physically flinched.
“I bet you hate me now,” Tate’s voice was low and his tone was scarily unfamiliar.
“Tate...”
You didn’t know how to word it; you tried to see the good in everyone, but this- this was on a whole other scale. It wasn’t something you could easily look past or forgive.
“Hate... I couldn’t hate you,” you reply, and you pause, “I just... Why? All that life...”
“I didn’t...”
Tate would usually deny everything, play victim and escape the blame, but the way your eyes looked into his... It was magnetic. And, he did not want to lie to your face; you did not deserve that. You deserve the truth.
So that’s what he told you. Tate poured his heart out to you- every emotion, every detail. Anything you wanted to know.
“I don’t know what I’m feeling...” Tate whispered.
“Regret?” you ask, “It’s alright, Tate. What you did was wrong, but.. the most you can do now is be truly sorry, and try to redeem yourself in death.”
Tate quite liked that idea; redemption. Maybe, just maybe, you could help him.
A/N: Obviously I do not believe that anything Tate did was right- but he is quite emotionally manipulative as a character which is why I believe that some well meaning person could feel sympathy for him.