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#there was another version where goerge called him a liar
moved-19871997 · 3 years
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“I love you,” DreamXD tells him one day, completely out of the blue. They’re stargazing, because XD needed a human activity, and George wanted peace and quiet. XD is still looking to the stars, George wonders if he’s been to the far-off planets, if he’s seen things humans can’t even begin to even try to comprehend.
“Do you know what love feels like?” George asks him, not unkindly, but raw and blunt. Dream had said that he’d appreciated the way he didn’t sugar-coat things, and XD seems to not mind it.
“I… I’m not sure,” XD admits. He glances towards George, but George isn’t looking at him, he’s staring at the moon instead. His side profile is almost ethereal under the harsh light of the moon, the way the sharp cuts of his jaw and cheekbones cast shadows across his face makes XD want to immortalize him in pictures and statues.
“Then you can’t love me, if you don’t know,” George tells him, simple and short, like he’s telling him the sky is blue. He breaks away from the moon to look at him, “You don’t love me.” Neither of them are confident that George is telling XD, and not just convincing himself.
They go back to stargazing. XD is quiet for a whole minute, thoughts of love churning up a storm in the center of his mind and his being.
“Love feels like you,” XD says into the quiet of the night. Love feels like looking at a human, at George specifically, and wanting them to be immortal, love feels like the way starlight scatters across his skin, love feels like knowing George will be by his side, even if he won’t say it out loud.
George looks at him, properly and in the eyes, and with purpose, “You’re the universe.”
They’ve been staring up at the universe for the better part of the night, it’s dark, cold, uncaring and dangerous. By all manner of measurement, it wasn’t made for humans, and it doesn’t– it can’t have the capacity for something warm and safe and human as love.
“And you are love.”
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