Tumblr Prompt - "Hope" from Aldebaran
E/C, canon compliant
Hope was for fools... as he had witnessed firsthand over the course of his miserable life: Madeline, Luciana, even cursed memories from shadowed longings during his time in the sultana's court.
But one smile from her lovely face, whether lips nudged up on a shy grin or spread wide brilliant triumph, caused his traitorous heart to kick to life, lit from within by a mere spark of the very feeling he worked so hard to suppress.
In those moments he gladly called himself a fool, if only for her.