"Making it up has done overall well for us, love. We're still together after a long time. There are a lot of couples who can't make it." The Summoned couples have made it this far, so there is powerful love holding them together, but it doesn't mean they aren't without their faults. There is no perfect relationship. The fact that they are different species will always be part of the problem, a gap of understanding.
Istredd is actually more horrified hearing the whole plan. Making Jack his new vessel? He bristles at that and drops Lucifer's hand, crossing arms against his chest. "You didn't think or you didn't care that I might not be fine with this? Were my feelings taken into consideration at all?" That would be an outright offense if not. Lucifer assuming Istredd would just grow to accept it is one thing, and not unfounded. As long as he talked to Jack and Sabine was on the same page. That's not the point.
"Yenna and I have been working with him from the start. Yes, we're close, he trusted me above all others to help him." Istredd sighs and squeezes the bridge of his nose. So that was a long-term deception, spanning decades of time. "I didn't want to keep it from you, but I was afraid of exactly this." His fears were entirely founded. And look where it brought them.
At least Lucifer is acting more like himself. It's soothing some of his utter terror from a few minutes ago, thinking he lost him already. And whatever Lucifer says, he did change for Istredd. He's made a lot of compromises.
"Lucifer, I've proven to you over and over that I choose you. And I did it again, right now, when you asked. Clearly whatever answers you have about your whys, it won't change that I love you, that I'm right here, on your side, again."
He left Yennefer behind too. He might not have, if her life and mind still counted on his constant presence, but she's healing, she doesn't need him to keep her alive. It doesn't make it easy to have abandoned her, she won't like that, she'll always hold it against him a little. And he still did it.
"You say you won't change for me, but you did just change. You went cold. And I fell in love with an archangel who was emotional. Tempestuous, difficult, brilliant, hilarious, beautiful, with a secret soft spot for the people who got under his skin. I'm allowed to be upset about you going cold and leaving me wondering if the man I love is dying within you."
I had this in my brain so I had to edit.
Istredd is actually more horrified hearing the whole plan. Making Jack his new vessel? He bristles at that and drops Lucifer's hand, crossing arms against his chest. "You didn't think or you didn't care that I might not be fine with this? Were my feelings taken into consideration at all?" That would be an outright offense if not. Lucifer assuming Istredd would just grow to accept it is one thing, and not unfounded. As long as he talked to Jack and Sabine was on the same page. That's not the point.
"Yenna and I have been working with him from the start. Yes, we're close, he trusted me above all others to help him." Istredd sighs and squeezes the bridge of his nose. So that was a long-term deception, spanning decades of time. "I didn't want to keep it from you, but I was afraid of exactly this." His fears were entirely founded. And look where it brought them.
At least Lucifer is acting more like himself. It's soothing some of his utter terror from a few minutes ago, thinking he lost him already. And whatever Lucifer says, he did change for Istredd. He's made a lot of compromises.
"Lucifer, I've proven to you over and over that I choose you. And I did it again, right now, when you asked. Clearly whatever answers you have about your whys, it won't change that I love you, that I'm right here, on your side, again."
He left Yennefer behind too. He might not have, if her life and mind still counted on his constant presence, but she's healing, she doesn't need him to keep her alive. It doesn't make it easy to have abandoned her, she won't like that, she'll always hold it against him a little. And he still did it.
"You say you won't change for me, but you did just change. You went cold. And I fell in love with an archangel who was emotional. Tempestuous, difficult, brilliant, hilarious, beautiful, with a secret soft spot for the people who got under his skin. I'm allowed to be upset about you going cold and leaving me wondering if the man I love is dying within you."