[If Zelos weren't as careful a person as he is, Lloyd would have gone sprawling on the pavement from the shock that question sends through the Chosen.]
What?! Where the hell did you get that idea?!
[It's a question he struggled with himself, not that he'll ever breathe a word to anyone, but he's never felt the way he feels about Lloyd before. That uncomfortable tightness whenever the kid does anything nice for him, the desire to protect him, to do what will make Lloyd happy not for any sort of gain but simply because, or even to do terrible things to keep him safe even if Lloyd ends up hating him forever.
It sounds a lot like love.
But there's no physical attraction there, not from his end at least. It's so completely and utterly different and foreign and baffling. The closest way he can term it something like he feels for Seles, the drive to protect someone at any cost.
So maybe it is love, but platonic love. Something he's never had returned, something he'll always wish he actually deserved but will return until Lloyd figures things out and leaves his life for people more worthy of his attention.]
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What?! Where the hell did you get that idea?!
[It's a question he struggled with himself, not that he'll ever breathe a word to anyone, but he's never felt the way he feels about Lloyd before. That uncomfortable tightness whenever the kid does anything nice for him, the desire to protect him, to do what will make Lloyd happy not for any sort of gain but simply because, or even to do terrible things to keep him safe even if Lloyd ends up hating him forever.
It sounds a lot like love.
But there's no physical attraction there, not from his end at least. It's so completely and utterly different and foreign and baffling. The closest way he can term it something like he feels for Seles, the drive to protect someone at any cost.
So maybe it is love, but platonic love. Something he's never had returned, something he'll always wish he actually deserved but will return until Lloyd figures things out and leaves his life for people more worthy of his attention.]
It's not like that.