“I can’t believe out of all the lifetimes I could’ve lived, I’ve been thrown into the one with you in it. God hates me.” Prompt for whoever.
Hi, ily anon. Thank you for the prompt!! Here have some Reggie angst. ♥
It’s widely known that the young Lord De Sardet and his Master of Arms do not like each other. From first meeting De Sardet seemed to dislike him, and the court loves to speculate on why. It’s a matter of discussion near every day, some truly impolite rumors, some scandalous rumors, some convinced it’s a ploy because they’re truly madly in love—De Sardet would find them hilarious if it had been anyone but Kurt.
Alas, the rumors always circulate about him. At first the rumors had always been about he and Constantin, how close they were, how one could never find one without the other. ‘Joined at the hip’ many people have termed it, ‘always partners in punishment’. They aren’t wrong. Whenever Constantin is punished, De Sardet is too. Namely because he can’t stop interjecting on Constantin’s behalf, and his uncle is forever convinced that punishment by association is an acceptable form of getting them to hate each other.
In reality it has the opposite effect. Constantin trusts De Sardet more than anyone else and De Sardet is both fiercely loyal and fiercely protective of him.
Then the rumors about Kurt started, and Constantin’s rumors mostly die away in lieu of ‘the Lord and his pet’. De Sardet hates them, each and every single one. Most especially because he knows Kurt hears them, and Kurt already dislikes him on a deeply personal level.
It’s put him in a spectacularly bad mood today.
“I can’t believe out of all the lifetimes I could’ve lived; I’ve been thrown into the one with you in it. God hates me.” He murmurs, shoving De Sardet back roughly with one of his palms. “Focus, Green Blood. Your focus is slipping.”