If love was a crime

"I'm gonna kill him.... If he hurt her then i'm gonna kill him. I hate to see them together, i can't stand them. All of his sugar coated words towards her! Why aren't they coming from my mouth? Why can't i be with her instead of him? Why do i have to suffer while he gets everything?!

The face she had when i entered that goddamn room, the way she stood trying to catch her breath... What the fuck happened? If it was him, if he did that to her.... I can't even intervene. I can't do anything: he's the emperor, she likes him and i already promised not to get close to her. But the more i see her the more i want to talk to her. Why? Why do i have such a foolish feeling? She did nothing to make me crush on her and yet here i am. I don't even know her, but the boys say she is an interesting and kind person, that talking to her is pleasent- but what if she is faking it? I don't know her, i can't crush on her. But... I want to know her better, my feelings and intuition rarely make me feel something like this to a person i wouldn't like, maybe it is worth a try?

... It's not that she'd notice me anyway. I'll just end up getting killed for nothing" Abbacchio silently thought to himself as he walked back to his room

"Hey Leone! What happened in there? Is everything alright?" Fugo suddenly appeared from his room and asked his friend

"Yeah yeah, go back to sleep" was all Abbacchio managed to answer

"Why are you so sad recently? You haven't been yourself in a few days" the younger boy continued talking, forcing the other to stay in the corridor with him, but Leone didn't answer. He just sadly looked at his friend and then left

"I can't tell him. I can't tell nobody about this...

Bruno already suspects me in the 'crime' i'm committing, but can i even change it?" As the thoughts were flooding his mind, Abbacchio layed back on his bed, slowly falling back into the world of dreams: the only place where he could experience something different from his normal life

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"Hey Fugo, we're going out" a voice from outside the room was heard, it was Giorno

"Alright emperor i'm coming with you two. No one knows what may happen" now it was Fugo who was talking

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Now Abbacchio was left alone in the mansion, so he decided to get a little fricky. Nobody could catch him anyways right? Right.

He went to the room you and Giorno shared and started observing some tools of yours. The clothes told him nothing about you, since they were randomly brought by some servants. Then he moved to the gadgets from the other universe you took with yourself, starting with the phone. Abbacchio was pretty fast to understand how the device worked, after touching random places on it he managed to switch it on.

"Woah, that's something new. How did they even invent something like this?" He thought as he scrolled through some pictures you have saved in the gallery. God knows how he got to open the gallery, yet it was the first thing he noticed in your screen and decided to click on it.

What he found surprised him a lot, mostly because you had a lot of memes that he couldn't understand because of the language barrier, but he liked some memes with just some pictures and not much words. Then, Abbacchio managed to open your camera and edits folder, in which he found some aesthetically pleasent pictures, edits and selfies. Either only yours or where you were with you friends and family members, but it didn't matter since Abbacchio's eyes were always on your shape, looking at your face and body, admiring every single bit of what he was seeing. That was his first time when he could actually look at you without diverting his gaze, without being ashamed of his staring, without needing to hide his soft glances... He was savouring those moments, he wished he could look at those pictures forever, since he couldn't have you.

Leone spent almost an hour in your gallery, yet without looking at all the pictures. Then, he started randomly pressing everyhing in hope to get something else, accidentaly touching the spotify app. After clicking again on some pictures, which happened to lead to your playlist, he started hearing some sounds from 'weird wires connected to the metal thing' aka your earbuds. As soon as he got them closer to himself he started hearing something more similar to music, obviously he didn't know what the hell was going on because he had never heard something similar to what you had in the playlist, no matter the genre. Nevertheless, he was confused and tried to stop it, not wanting to break anything; in the end he was able to find the 'pause' button and, after clicking on it, he sighed in satisfaction.

It was already time for you and Giorno to come back, so Leone couldn't stay any longer in your room. That's why he had the BRILLIANT idea of stealing your phone, in order to stare at your pictures from his room. After taking your device, he put everything in your room as it was before he started roaming around, so that you wouldn't notice any change and then he left and went back to his room.

He remembered how to access to your gallery and how to find the folder with your pictures, so he hid your phone in between of his clothes, forgetting to put in on stand by. In his room he now had a sort of closet with his clothes shining because of your phone's luminosity, meanwhile on the device's screen there was a cute selfie of you with your best friend. Too bad that the battery was very low...

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You and Giorno didn't talk much during your little trip, you were still a little affected from the previous incident and your boyfriend noticed it

"I can't believe i hurt her, i didn't want to... I just want her to know how much i care about her and how much i desire her. And yet all she does is question my moves. 'What did you do to Jack' 'Why did you lie?!' and why is all of that so important to you goddamn? Why don't you trust me, i wouldn't do anything against you, my love. I just want us to be together...forever... We belong here, the Gods have chosen us to rule this empire, they have even sent you here from another world. Do you need any more proofs?? But you're a smart girl, you will understand this soon. I will help you, my goddess, i will make you understand" Giorno's mind spoke, while his body embraced your figure from behind and you both started looking at the scenery from the balcony of the room. You put your hands on his and stayed like this for a few minutes before turning around and looking straight at him.

As he returned the stare, his mouth spoke

"I'm deeply sorry for before. I want you to know that i love you. I will do whatever to restore your trust in me"

"Giorno..." You put your finger on his mouth to shut him and immediately hugged him afterwards, feeling your eyes getting watery again. You were feeling so weak, always crying and not knowing what to do. But you really didn't know, you were just trying to survive in a completely different world. Maybe, just maybe, you could change everything... Maybe Giorno would change for the best. You wanted to believe it, you hoped for your wish to become true.

Suddenly, the blond broke the cuddle and rubbed his nose on yours, just like during his confession

"Do you remember this? When we had a date back at the fair?" He said

"It was a date?"

"For me, all our hang outs were dates. I fell in love with you immediately, but i was scared to confess the first few days. As time flew by, i just couldn't stop myself from thinking about you, i couldn't stay without you any longer. Thankfully, a fair like that was in the city and i had the opportunity to confess during a special moment for romans. I hope it is now a special moment for us too, an unforgettable memory you will have of me" he murmured to you and kissed your cheek

"In a few days i will depart to the north. Please take care of the empire for me, of the romans and of yourself" he shyly continued, already thinking of you as of the empress

"Promise me that you'll come back safe and sound. I don't want to lose you, i can't lose you and neither can your people and your empire. I don't want that date at the fair to be just a memory. I want more memories with you, i-"

"I'm glad you agreed that the fair was a date" the emperor smilingly said, interrupting you and bringing a smile to your tear-stained face

"Gio i was talking about important things" you laughed, slightly hitting him on the chest.

Finally, you heard his laughter again, which sounded ethereal to your ears

"My love, don't worry about me. I will come back as soon as i can. I won't let those barbarians hurt me, not when i have such a goddess waiting for me at home"

You felt as the old Giorno came back, there was no trace of today's madman. You couldn't forget the fight you previously had, but you wanted to spend some quality time with him anyways. Him leaving you and going to a war, the thought of losing him hurted much more.

"I love you GioGio"