Lucio sighed heavily at Ansel’s words and he nodded slowly, leaning into the delicate touch on his cheek and closing his eyes briefly as he relished in the brief contact. He moved close to his lover then as Ansel’s arm wound about his waist in a loose grip and he reached up to wrap his own arms around the man’s neck, his fingers interlocking behind him so he could hang precariously within his grip. “I understand, darling,” were the only words he offered in response to Ansel’s explanation, he didn’t feel that it required any further acknowledgement, really. He leaned into the kiss that was planted upon his brow and then he reluctantly allowed his lover to break away and retreat into the cool embrace of the lake.<br/><br/>Lucio couldn’t help but allow a smile to creep across his features as he watched Ansel slowly slip into the depths. The man was large, so it took much longer for the water to envelope him than it did for it to do the same to Lucio, but he found it quite entrancing to watch the surface of the lake slowly lap up the length of Ansel’s legs and then up his abdomen. He watched the man from the shore, the water just barely kissing the tips of his toes as it stretched up onto the shore, until Ansel turned around and waved him forward. Lucio’s lips curved upwards into the faintest of smiled and he shook his head at his lover’s question, slowly stepping into the water and beginning to move gracefully out towards Ansel. Per the usual the boys every movement was slow, fluid, and enrapturing; there was no remnants of all of the violent drama that had occurred that morning within him, he seemed to be back to his normal self, more or less, bottling up whatever negative emotions may have been lingering.<br/><br/>When Lucio reached his lover he wound his arm about the professor’s neck briefly, pulling him down into an adoring liplock and pressing his fingers through his hair at the back of his head. He hummed softly as he broke away a brief while, gazing up into the man’s eyes as though he was searching for something for a few second. A genuine smile broke out upon his face then, though and he whispered in a tone that was absolutely dripping with adoration, “I love you, Ansel von Essen.” He broke away then, hopping a few steps from Ansel before diving down beneath the water, reaching down and propelling himself against the sandy lake floor out past the drop-off point. He dove down into the dark depths on the opposite side of the underwater cliff, somersaulting through the darkness quite happily as he did.