[It is utter madness that he drives her to. A madness consumed by her love for him—one that has rooted itself, made a home in her, and then festered for so long. It beckons a side of her that only he will ever lay eyes upon, a side that only his heart will ever know. Her best-kept secret, and he knows it all in every painstaking detail.
To new heights they go, and new heights they come crashing down from, tonight a stark contrast to every other time they have shared together. While this one is coloured by their past, it is also shaped by a new future that they intend to seek out together. A future that they will search for and find and work towards together.
They continue that feverish, desperate pitch until their bodies are completely spent, their emotions at a high they have never been, and their names have been written into every inch of each other. Into the stars that line the skies, into the air that they breathe... Until there is no escape anymore.
It's Benedikta who dozes off first, and she has no idea when it happened or how. She'd been in the middle of kissing him softly when she felt the sleep take over her, those kisses turning into lazy presses of her lips before she eventually fell to his shoulder to rest. Wrapped up completely in his warmth, it is the first night in a long, long time where it is completely dreamless, not a thought in sight in this blissful, happy place she's found herself in.
Happy...
What a foreign concept.
Even stranger that she doesn't fear it will be gone come morning.
And that much is proven to be true when she does wake up finally, muttering his name and blinking her eyes open against the late morning sun to find him still there with her...]
✨ timeskip to the morning after ✨
To new heights they go, and new heights they come crashing down from, tonight a stark contrast to every other time they have shared together. While this one is coloured by their past, it is also shaped by a new future that they intend to seek out together. A future that they will search for and find and work towards together.
They continue that feverish, desperate pitch until their bodies are completely spent, their emotions at a high they have never been, and their names have been written into every inch of each other. Into the stars that line the skies, into the air that they breathe... Until there is no escape anymore.
It's Benedikta who dozes off first, and she has no idea when it happened or how. She'd been in the middle of kissing him softly when she felt the sleep take over her, those kisses turning into lazy presses of her lips before she eventually fell to his shoulder to rest. Wrapped up completely in his warmth, it is the first night in a long, long time where it is completely dreamless, not a thought in sight in this blissful, happy place she's found herself in.
Happy...
What a foreign concept.
Even stranger that she doesn't fear it will be gone come morning.
And that much is proven to be true when she does wake up finally, muttering his name and blinking her eyes open against the late morning sun to find him still there with her...]