~The Witcher: Geralt X Listener SFW: Attachment~ {Patreon Exclusive}

With how he reacted when he saved you, he must feel something for you......right?

Contains: Feelings, Contemplation, Confessions, Mild Violence

Geralt having feelings and being confused and mildly irritated by them but then coming to realize that they're genuine and not necessarily hating them is one of my favorite tropes. Love me a disgruntled broody man falling in love lol. Hope you all enjoy!

~Audio Transcript~

Geralt: *growling and sword clash*

*panting* Oh thank the gods, you're alright!

*embrace*

*muffled sigh*

*hushed* I'm sorry....I'm sorry I didn't come for you, I'm sorry you got taken........but I'm here now and no one is ever going to separate us again......

*pulls away*

Are you injured?

Your foot? Alright.....let's get out of here......Can you walk?

*pause*

I've got you then.....come here.......

*soft huff*

We'll get to Roach and get out of here......

*pause*

Oh no.....there won't be anyone to try to stop us.......

Turn your head.....into my shoulder......

*pause*

*softly*

I don't want you to see........

*Fade Out*

*Fade In*

*fire crackling*

Here........dinner........

*pause*

How is your foot doing?

I'm sorry we can't stay in a better place than this.......not enough time to get to a town before dark.......

*pause*

Eat up.....while it's hot......

*long pause*

*grunts and coughs* I don't.....know what you're talking about......

*pause*

*long sigh*

It's not.......good for Witchers to form emotional bonds with people.......

*pause*

More often than not we outlive them.......or said people end up getting killed......

We take a lot of blame for things we haven't caused........or at least I do.......

We are living mutations......monsters in human skin many say........bad luck....incapable of any feeling.........

So it's not smart to form an emotional bond with a Witcher.......or vice versa.......

*pause*

But I've found that no matter how rationally I try to talk myself out of it......I can't.......

*pause*

*sighs* For so long I was afraid to express anything more than.....irritated tolerance......because I didn't quite understand what I was feeling........and for a while it genuinely did irritate me.....

Then, one day you laughed at something I said......and like out of a stupid fairy tale....It struck me........

*pause*

I find myself thinking of a life......a future......day dreaming really if I were to be honest with myself.......

Of us.....together.......doing....superfluous things.........of just.....spending time together......and feeling.......content......

Content with the idea of a future with you......no matter where that future leads.......

*pause*

Perhaps not so much settling down.....but.....staying together.......traveling.....continuing to do......this.......

*soft laugh*

Perhaps with less....kidnapping.....yes......

*pause*

You being the last thing I see before I close my eyes at night......and the first thing I see when I open them in the morning......

*pause*

*groans softly*

It's embarrassing how often I've thought of it.....

I find my eyes and my thoughts drifting to you frequently......

Like a lantern in the darkness......drawn to you.....inexorably......

*long pause*

I've fallen in love.........

*pause*

You make me.....the closest I think I've ever been to true happiness and contentedness.....ever since I survived becoming a Witcher.......

I didn't really understand the depths of the melancholy that I'd been living in for......years? Decades? I couldn't tell you.......

But now that it's gone.....I look back.....

And I also think forward.....to the idea of you being gone.....and that terrifies me.......

You drag so many emotions forth in me that I thought I didn't have........

*pause*

No.....no......it's.....not a bad thing........

I would rather feel all of these things.......good or bad.........than spend the rest of my life without knowing you......without being with you.....

*pause*

In whatever capacity you allow.......

I'm not under any delusions that you're required to reciprocate......hell you might even resent me for it.......but......

I couldn't keep it inside anymore......

So there it is.........

That's what my reaction to....your rescue meant......

*pause*

As much as it would hurt me.....I would never force you to stay.........

*long pause*

Sit next to you? I—

*sighs softly* Alright.......

*shuffling*

Careful of your foot........

*pause*

I don't know.....no one has ever tried to use my arm as a pillow.........

*pause*

I admit that I'm.......nervous....I think......for you to have an answer.....even though I know realistically that I should......give you time.......

*pause*

*softly*

I won't be good at it.........I've never been in love before........

Just thought I'd warn you.....in case that influences any decisions you have.......

*pause*

For now just.....sit here?

*pause*

Yes......I can do that..........

*crackling fire*