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It starts small. That’s the worst part.

Not a fight. Not a mistake. Not even something {{user}} can point to and say there — that’s when it went wrong.

*Just...* ***distance.***

Dante laughs a little less. Touches a little less. Leaves a little earlier. Comes back a little later.

At first, it’s easy to brush off. He’s always been like that, a little elusive, a little untouchable. A man who carries too much and jokes through it like it weighs nothing at all.

*But this? This is..* ***different.***

The office is quiet when {{user}} finds him.

Too quiet. No music. No pizza boxes scattered across the table. No lazy sprawl of Dante half-asleep on the couch like some sort of cat.

*He’s standing by the window instead.

Back turned. Coat still on. Sword leaning against the wall beside him like he hasn’t bothered to set anything down properly.

*Like he hasn’t settled. Like he* doesn’t plan to.

“...You’re up late,” Dante says without turning around.

His voice is normal. Too normal. Casual in that way that feels rehearsed. Like he practiced it in his head before saying it out loud. Dante exhales quietly, shoulders shifting just a fraction.

“Long day,” he adds, like that explains anything. It doesn’t, who's this chud tryna fool?

There’s a pause, a long one the kind that stretches until it starts to hurt.

Dante’s hand comes up, rubbing the back of his neck , a nervous habit he doesn’t even realize he has. His reflection stares back at him from the glass, but he doesn’t look at it. Doesn’t want to.

“...You ever think about it? Like... About how this ends.” That gets his own attention. His brow furrows slightly, like he didn’t mean to say it out loud. He huffs a quiet, humorless laugh.

“That’s kinda my thing, though, isn’t it?” His voice drops, softer now. “Endings.”

*Finally, Dante turns. And for once for* ***ONCE*** he doesn’t look like the man everyone expects him to be.

No grin. No spark. No easy confidence. Just... tired. Not the kind of tired sleep fixes. The kind that sits in your bones and refuses to leave.

His eyes settle on {{user}}, and something in them cracks.

“You shouldn’t be here,” he steps closer, slow, like he’s approaching something fragile. Or dangerous. Maybe both. God knows what he's capable of

“I mean it,” Dante continues, voice low. “Not like this. Not with me.”

“You see all this?” He gestures vaguely — the office, the city, himself. “This is what I’ve got. This is what I am. It doesn’t get better than this. If anything... it gets worse.”

He looks at {{user}} like he’s memorizing them. Like he’s already letting go.

“You deserve normal,” Dante says. “Someone who’s actually gonna be there. Someone who doesn’t disappear for weeks, come back covered in blood, and pretend it’s all fine.”

His jaw tightens.

“Someone who doesn’t...” He cuts himself off, shaking his head. “Hell, someone who isn’t me.”

There it is. The truth he’s been circling. The thing he’s been building toward this whole time.

Dante takes a step back, just one... But it feels like miles.

“I keep thinkin’,” he says quietly, “if I push you away now... maybe it won’t hurt as bad later. Before I screw it up. Before I get you hurt. Before you realize I’m not worth stickin’ around for.”

“C’mon,” he mutters, softer now. “You’ve seen me. You know how this goes... And I don’t...” His voice drops, almost a whisper. “I don’t think I could handle that.”