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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:23 pm
“Do you think this is right?” Regal whispered softly as he linked his arm through his husband’s, gazing up at his face from the corner of clear-blue crystalline eyes.
Admittedly, he didn’t have a complete argument for what made it ‘wrong,’ exactly. Just… an uncomfortable feeling that they were being unfair to someone- their daughter- who didn’t have much ability to correct them. Mirosnjha could and had told them that what they were doing wasn’t right, but neither Regal nor Sawtooth knew how to fix that.
They went as a pair to Sawtooth’s wonder. Elias very much liked visiting his namesake. He liked doing the renovations, he liked speaking with his ancestor, he liked the security of he and Regal having a place where they could be private.
But it was only ever just the two of them.
He didn’t have the sort of strength required to bring Regal and Zero, let alone Regal, Zero, and Mirosnjha. Regal thought it might be fair if Sawtooth brought him sometimes, and then Zero other times, but it made him incredibly uncomfortable to think that his daughter was actual worlds away. If something happened to her- if Sawtooth lost sight of her for even a second- It wasn’t even fair to think, since the Wonder would probably evacuate her at the first trace of trouble, but if- just if it didn’t… How would either of them live with themselves?
It was uncomfortable to think of just Sawtooth and Zero alone on Saturn. Regal didn’t want to allow it. So what he could do instead was bring both Sawtooth and Zero to his wonder, to Regal. That was something he did have the strength for, though it hardly felt earned. And even if he did as much, it meant next to nothing to him.
Regal hadn’t forged any bond with his wonder as Sawtooth had. Even though he could conceivably bring both of them, he didn’t know that it was any safer than Sawtooth’s wonder, and it wouldn’t be any more meaningful than just seeing any random sight out in the city.
Chronos wasn’t even a planet; it was just ‘a space,’ and Regal barely understood what that meant for his wonder.
But honestly, both of those options were irrelevant because the heart of it was just that they didn’t want their daughter to go to space. Not to Sawtooth or Regal. And not to Zero. That was what Miros said was most unfair: keeping a senshi from her homeworld. But she was seven, and she had no more ability to bring them all than Sawtooth did. And her world was probably not afforded any sort of protection by a codepiece. Regal expected a senshi’s world could be significantly more volatile than someone’s wonder, though he honestly had no idea how true that was or not…
Regardless, every time they prepared to go to Sawtooth, he simply had to stop and wonder: “Is it right of us to go, when we tell her she can’t?” Regal barely enjoyed powering up at all, which was vastly different than both his husband and his daughter, but… It just seemed more dangerous than it was worth, even standing here, now, in the few seconds it took them to get from Earth to Saturn.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:54 pm
A stiff, impatient breath slipped, not for the first time, from Sawtooth’s throat. Every time. This seemed like it was going to be an issue every single time he wanted to see his wonder, and because of how often it came up, a part of him was starting to feel like maybe he shouldn’t bring Regal. Maybe he should go and just enjoy it for himself, enjoy his freaking birthright because he was a grown-a** man who could take care of himself and had the ability to do such things.
Zero was a child, practically a baby, and that was the difference between Sawtooth and Regal going to space and Zero going to space. They were adults who could take care of themselves. Zero was seven. No matter how independent and self-reliant she was, she was seven. She just wasn’t mentally developed enough, as far as Sawtooth was concerned.
Regal should understand that.
And that he didn’t was what had Sawtooth frustrated. “Let’s just not go, then,” he retorted a bit sharply, notching his arm out of his husband’s hold as he turned to head back home. “Because no matter how much we discuss it, it’s never going to seem ‘right,’ but we’ll amend that once we’re able.”
He was fine to bring Zero to Sawtooth! …Once they could all go together. Once both her parents could be there, once they were physically capable of defending against whatever dangers might arise, not just out there, but on Earth too. They should be wary of letting her power up, letting her run off to some distant planet neither of them had ever heard of. Mirosnjha was a wonderful Guardian, but he was just a cat. He could barely do more than lift a paw to keep danger off their daughter. But once they were all equipped to protect her, they could be more lenient.
“Come on, let’s just go home.”
Unfair. It was unfair of him to be cold, but it was also unfair of Regal to keep bringing this up when they’d already decided what was best.
Did Sawtooth also feel a little shitty whenever the Mauvian reprimanded them for not allowing their daughter to see her world? Yes, of course he did. He wanted his little girl to be happy, and Zero was as much her birthright as Sawtooth was his. But their circumstances were different. They just were. Maybe one day she’d be strong enough to bring all of them, too, and he may be amenable to allowing her to do that…
But not now. Now, he and Regal traveled home on foot in silence, with Sawtooth glaring ahead the entire way.
When they made it up to their back patio, Elias shoved the door open with more force than necessary, startling the threesome in the living room: their daughter, her cat, and her babysitter. When the comment came around that they were ‘back pretty fast…’ Elias just grunted out a disenchanted sound and made his way up the stairs. He knew Thaddeus would take care of getting everything settled, and then…
He didn’t know, but he was sure there’d be a hell of a lot more talking involved.
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