[Finn shifts back enough to look at Takumi, one hand cupping the prince's face to bring them eye to eye.]
Wherever, okay? The two of us, I am not leaving you alone again-
[He starts a little as Xander groans; a brief instant of relief quickly replaced with more fear and confusion as the implications lined up in his head. Takumi wouldn't be acting this way if this were just self-defense, but if he'd struck first-]
[None of this was adding up-]
Taku. You told me- told all of us, about the war, remember? About- how you'd died, before you ever came here.
And then you said you didn't want to go back to that, to feeling that kind of hatred.
[...sort of. More or less.]
That- I still believe that's true. Whatever- whatever happened here, whatever might be pushing you, the part of you that doesn't want to hate is stronger than it, I believe that even if you don't.
I said then I wasn't going to let you deal with it alone, and I still mean that.
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[Finn shifts back enough to look at Takumi, one hand cupping the prince's face to bring them eye to eye.]
Wherever, okay? The two of us, I am not leaving you alone again-
[He starts a little as Xander groans; a brief instant of relief quickly replaced with more fear and confusion as the implications lined up in his head. Takumi wouldn't be acting this way if this were just self-defense, but if he'd struck first-]
[None of this was adding up-]
Taku. You told me- told all of us, about the war, remember? About- how you'd died, before you ever came here.
And then you said you didn't want to go back to that, to feeling that kind of hatred.
[...sort of. More or less.]
That- I still believe that's true. Whatever- whatever happened here, whatever might be pushing you, the part of you that doesn't want to hate is stronger than it, I believe that even if you don't.
I said then I wasn't going to let you deal with it alone, and I still mean that.