kinkfest | A road too lonely for two [FFX, Auron/Braska/Jecht, G]

Title: A road too lonely for two
Author:

akiko
Rating: G/PG
Word count: 360
Prompt: Final Fantasy X, Braska/Auron/Jecht: Negotiating adding a new person to the relationship - It was the obvious solution, really.
Summary: Braska notices the way Auron has been watching Jecht, and he proposes a solution.

We'd stopped to set up camp for the evening, and Jecht volunteered to collect firewood. I unrolled the tent canvas and watched him walk away.

It had been Braska's idea to free him from jail. I didn't know what he saw in the brash, arrogant man, but I was beginning to appreciate Jecht's broad shoulders and muscled chest. He was a good Guardian, no doubt about that. He could face down a pack of Malboros with a cocky grin and a casual confidence.

Letting him into our circle had been easy, and I couldn't object to Braska's wish. Yet I wanted more from him than just another sword against fiends, an ally against Sin.

Braska must have seen it on my face, because he said, "I hesitated to say anything, Auron, because I didn't know how you'd react."

I turned toward him. "React to what?"

"This is a road too lonely for two to walk. If you would like to take comfort in each other, I would not object." I'd learned to associate that smile with his thoughts of sacrifice.

I stepped closer and wrapped my arms around his slender shoulders. "It's you I've sworn to protect."

Braska's lips pressed against my cheek. "And you will sacrifice yourself with me. Likely both of you will. Don't you think you ought to take all the joy you can?"

He left the words "while you can" unspoken; the fate of Summoner and Gurdian was a constant cloud over us. I breathed deeply. It seemed like a logical solution, if fatalistic. "Is it possible to care for two people at once?"

Braska's breath whispered across my throat. He was laughing. "I care for all the people of Spira. Yet you and Yuna are the two I care about the most." He was still a moment. "I feel there is a connection, somehow, between you, Jecht, and Yuna, and I don't know what it is."

I didn't know, either. I learned it ten years later, when I brought the son of one man I loved to be a Guardian for the daughter of the other man I loved, and to break the eternal cycle of Sin.