Wherever you go, I'll go too
summary: Alan really should have known this already - wherever he goes, Liam will go too.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters
A/N: Prompt #2 for 31_days: "over the world and under the world"
Warning: slash
When Alan was sent on border patrol, right after he was knighted, Liam was too. The order wasn't so shocking for Alan, but it should have been for the prince – he'd have expected Their Majesties to keep their son near the palace.
When troops were assembled up north to end the war with Scanra once and for all, Alan was assigned to line up right behind the foot soldiers. Liam was too, surprisingly – Lord Wyldon usually managed to bend orders when it came to keeping his king's children safe.
After the war, Alan requested leave to visit his sister in the Copper Isles and was granted it. When he returned, he was assigned to a tiny post in the west, where most of the knights stayed in a crumbling castle, the fief name forgotten, and he worked with the few others at building it back up. Liam did too.
He didn't stay there for very long, and when Alan left the relative chill of the northwest and learned to live out of a tent in the Great Southern Desert, Liam was there too.
"Your orders should be different than mine," Alan told his friend, entering the prince's tent without announcing his presence. "You should be on duty near Corus, not stuck at small border camps. You should be living at the palace, going to dinners and parties and only fighting when you absolutely have to."
"I probably should, but I don't want to live in the capital. I'm a knight and I'll serve my country as a knight, not as a prince, the way most noble sons do – that's what I told Father the day of my Ordeal."
"And I've only been with the same knights for two assignments, and only a few of them then, besides you. You're assigned to everywhere I go."
"Coincidence," the older man said too easily.
"No," Alan said. "It's too much of a coincidence."
"Are you complaining, then?" Liam raised his eyebrows, questioning.
"No, of course not – I'm just asking you to tell me, honestly, are you asking your father to change your orders to follow me?"
"Wherever you go, I'll go too." Liam told him simply.
"But why?" Alan asked.
"I'm waiting for you to realize." The prince seemed to think this was an obvious fact.
"Realize what?" He was growing tired of Liam avoiding his question.
"This."
When Liam wrapped his arms around the other man, kissing him passionately, Alan did too.
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