Making all his nowhere plans for nobody // DIMITRI AUGUST CDC

28. who does y/c most want to protect?
Dimitri sat in his small room- not the one they shared, the one in his head. Their head? Sometimes he wasn’t sure where the line was but he knew this was his room. His domain and his area. He looked over at the photo frame, lying facedown on the dresser.
The shadows seemed to creep in on him, and her voice bothered him again. “She never loved you. No one ever did.” She was probably right. What good were they to Snowbound? What had they ever done that was worth someone else’s time?
“I think we’re all selfish. When have we ever done something for someone outside of the system, huh?” Her eyes watched him from the shadows, light blue jutting out to stare at him, her black and white body hidden by darkness. Maybe she had just cornered him here.
“What about that time we went after the.. The person that hurt her?”
“Because Delta wouldn’t let it go. She was being selfish too, not honorable. She lies to herself….”
Dimitri stood up on shaky legs, going to the dresser, hopping up, and then flipping Atbash’s picture up. He stared, and a sigh released from his body, Desdemona coming up behind him, breath on his ears.
“She’ll never love you, Dimitri. You know that...”
“That doesn’t mean I can’t care about her, right?”
“It will only hurt you.”