[Here's the thing. At the end of the day, Vash would never ask Wolfwood to choose between the orphanage and himself. It isn't a question — the children would come first. It's the same with how he would, in the end, turn himself over willingly. If there was a chance to make things right back home by subjecting himself to Knives, then he would gladly take it.

But like with Wolfwood, he does his best not to think about it. Right now, there's no way to fight against the powers that have them trapped. And even if it would hurt, in the end, to go back to the way things were, it was as an old scholar had once said. It's better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all.

The soft laugh that leaves him is heavy with the exhaustion settling into his limbs. He knows he should get up and at least clean but... certainly he can't leave now when Wolfwood has just said something like that.]

Mmhm. Written into the great book of laws here now. Vash the Stampede and Nicholas D. Wolfwood are legally boyfriends.

[He doesn't know Wolfwood has begun to cry until he feels that first splash against his skin. Part of him instinctively wants to ask after the man. He fights the urge down just barely, ultimately assuming it better to not draw attention to his grief. Instead, he thumbs away those tears.]

You're even more stuck with me now.