#exodane

Pairing: Bennet du Paris/Dane Whitman

Rating: T

Rating: T Pairing: Bennet du Paris/Eobar Garrington, Bennet du Paris/Dane Whitman (implied)

and dane is the one to confront him because ofc

bennet is all "you think you can talk me down? because you think you're special to me? fuck you you're not my dead ex not really. you just have his memories fuck off"

and dane is like "am too!". he's momentarily completely distracted from the mission as the memories he's absorbed from eobar (or the aspect of him that is eobar) come to the surface. he feels like he's being accused, like he's being delegitimised and slandered.

but bennet of course feels that dane's claim over these memories, over eobar's personhood, is a slight against him. that dane's taking something away from him, complicating a purer kind of love.

(not that the love he and eobar had was all that simple and pure; it had its own mess but grief smoothed all that over in his mind)

and then they fight. a sword fight that turns into a messy physical fight.

harsh words flung around, angst abound

This weird situation where dane is trying to convince bennet that he loves him, but it's not like he wants to love him. he wants to stop him. he wants to defeat the villain/obstacle and go on with his life, but he needs to be heard, he needs to be understood. and the more he argues his case, the more he is arguing for love.

then, idk like, some kind of climax? a catharsis?

bennet is faced with change, imperfect, complication. a real human being who's existence complicated his own narrative. a confrontation with the fact that he's never lived his life, never been a man who loved but rather always a soldier in a holy war.