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And why should Felix expect Dimitri to be that happy to see him? He's hardly much better company now than he's ever been, that he can tell...except when Claude and Sylvain are around, maybe. They don't walk on eggshells around him trying to be perfect, or whatever it is Dimitri thinks he's doing when he approaches Felix like he's a spooked horse. How many times does Felix have to tell him he loves him before he'll believe it?
If Dedue told him the same thing, Dimitri would believe it instantly and wholeheartedly.
Maybe no matter what he does, Felix will never make up for the mistakes he made as a stupid, angry teenager.
He grits his teeth when Dedue decides to berate him about exactly that. "Don't lecture me. My relationship with Dimitri is none of your business, no matter how entitled you feel to stick your nose into every little thing he does. You're his vassal, not his mother."
Not his boyfriend, either.
"Months, at this point. It had only been a few weeks past when I arrived here, but I've been here since Ethereal Moon."
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"I do not intend to lecture you," he says. "And if I do, you will know it."
As far as Dimitri's relationships not being his business-- well, they tend to become his business when they distress His Highness. Besides, he already is generally aware that lecturing Felix about anything would be an exercise in futility, and he generally does not apply his efforts to futile things. So, really, Felix is spared from an undue amount of Dedue's attention; he enjoys arguing with Felix about His Highness about as much as he enjoys beating his head off of a wall.
"Then I wish to ask you something." Technically, of course, Felix could deny him, though there seems to be little reason for him to withhold information. "Does His Highness continue in his attempts to assault Enbarr?"
The death march. Dimitri had been fixated on reaching Edelgard at the Imperial capital rather than returning to Fhirdiad to retake his kingdom and rally his own troops to his cause. None, not even the Professor, could seem to sway him from his goals. It could perhaps be admirable, his sheer determination, if it was not also likely to end in their deaths.
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"No. After the battle at Gronder Field, we marched to retake Fhirdiad and won."
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That particular revelation may not have come from Dedue-- not entirely from a lack of trying, but when Dimitri refused to speak to him on the subject, what could he do-- but what mattered was that he was turned from his current trajectory. An attempt at reaching Enbarr would have only ended in disaster for the Kingdom army; Dedue was no tactician, but he was certain of that. They needed the support of the remaining lords in Faerghus to have a hope of successfully assaulting the Imperial capital, and it is heartening that Dimitri finally heeded the wisdom of returning to Fhirdiad.
"Ah. Was he coronated, after the capital was retaken? I may be incorrect in referring to him as His Highness."
He would be His Majesty then, not His Highness.
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But Dedue doesn't ask how it happened or why, and Felix is torn between relief that he doesn't have to explain it and disdain for the way Dedue insists on clinging to all these pointless formalities that are only going to make Dimitri feel shackled again by his fate as king and the distance between him and his friends due to his station that he always hated.
"Not officially. There wasn't time. Claude requested our aid to defend Derdriu; we set out the very next morning at dawn. In practice, he's king. But if you were truly concerned about how much pain his friends bring him, you would forget about titles that mean nothing in this world anyway. Call him by name if you don't want to see him hurt."
And if Felix is saying this, he must really feel strongly about it.
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He doesn't mention that how much it would pain him to watch Dimitri fling himself at suicidal odds at the behest of the ghosts in his head, until he either seized victory at the cost of body and soul or until he was left a broken corpse on the battlefield. Nor should the people of Faerghus languish under the heel of a tyrant, if they could be freed. But it is heartening to hear that Dimitri responds to Claude's call for aid so quickly-- that he recognizes friends and allies again, and will go to defend them.
The idea that titles could mean nothing in this world is one that hadn't occurred to him; he had been too preoccupied with finding Dimitri to concern himself with such things.
"I afford His Highness the respect that he deserves," he says. "And as you have seen fit to remind me, I am but his vassal. My duty remains regardless of whether we are in Fódlan or not."