[Nov 24th] [original] Together Against the Unknown

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Title: Together Against the Unknown
Day/Theme: 24. mounds of carved humans
Series: Original : Silver&Auburn
Character/Pairing: Leyn, Kayrenn
Rating: PG-13

They had both seen war. Which is why Leyn found putting himself into Kay's potition sometimes so hard, especially now, when Kay was alive, merely... different. His love was not and had never been particularly soldierly. True, Kay had never balked from a fight, had never abandoned his potion and Leyn knew Kay would always have his back, but the scholar's heart was not in the fight.

Never had been.

Leyn had seen Kay during fights, looking at the devastation around them, the battleground strewn with bodies, speechless over the price of victory paid through piles of human lives, bodies stripped of life and dignity both. Green eyes watching with such acute pain in them it made Leyn bleed inside. Made him want to tell Kay he would never had to fight. Never have to see death. Blood and gore. And a man not made to fight yet having to, because he must. Sometimes it was too much for even Leyn himself.

If what Kay abhorred were the actual horrors of a battlefield, it was seeing Kay fall was Leyn's nightmare.

Which is why, on that morning, waking up to Kayrenn screaming next to him, the bed bathed in blood, Leyn had, for a moment, thought that his worst fear had come to life. That Kay had been murdered in their bed and was dying. He had hated leaving his husband behind, crying like his life was slipping away, but Leyn had known Kay had needed a healer more than his crying, so he had had to go.

Kay had not died while he had been gone.

But both their lives had changed dramatically. After some coaxing while he waited for the healer to gather her supplies, Leyn had talked Kay into telling what was wrong. What he found out was so fantastic he almost did not believe it at once. It also did not matter, because all that mattered was that Kay was alive. Alive and breathing.

It took weeks of gentle coaxing to make Kay understand that all Leyn mattered was having Kay alive, that he did not care that he would be better off referring to his husband as his wife. It was still Kay, an alive Kay, which was all important.

In time, after Kay opened up about his, her anxieties, Leyn did began to see Kay's points. But by then they were already part of something more life-changing, they were becoming parents. Which of course made Kay all the more anxious. Yet Leyn was sure they could overcome anything, as long as they were together.