closed ⚡🪶 i've landed next to you

[garudas]

Who: Benedikta Harman & Cidolfus Telamon.
Status: Closed.
Where: Elah, The Roost, Astares.
What: They have some celebrating to do + event stuff.
Warnings: The usual.

one year down 💜
buns in the oven 🍞
life's a gamble 🎲
great googly moogly 💫

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💚💜 fin.

[garudas]

[When she had started planning today, and then when it had all come together and was time to take him through it, she hadn't been sure if it was too much. That perhaps she was getting ahead of herself, worried that he might think she'd gone overboard with the surprises and the assumptions that this should be something worth celebrating. It's not as if the day they reunited here was a good one, but it was not to celebrate what happened but rather, what it had started. Everything that rippled afterwards with that as the beginning.

But hearing him say those words back to her makes her absolutely certain that she had been right. Makes her feel sure that they were in the same place, feeling the same things, wanting the same things. And, most of all, that he did enjoy the evening with her. That she made him happy.

So she does not stop him when he rushes at her, their lips crashing into the hundreds of kisses that had built up over time, all of that desire finally being allowed to flow to the surface and spill over. All of the things that she still could not say coming out in the ravenous and reverent way that she touches him. The depth and their meaning shining in the way that she looks at him, all of them so precious and delicate, like they might shatter if she gives a voice to them.

Just like this moment. If she lets go, if she lets him go, then all of this might turn to dust.

Which is why she takes every second she is given to burn this into her memory. She takes every second to memorize him all over again, like they are forced to relearn each other every time in case everything slips away.

In the green and blue lights, she is reminded of the dozens of promises that they made, and she is made to feel like his "bride" again, indeed. Through the joining of their bodies, through their cries of each other's names, through the kisses and the sweet whispers shared between them, until the sparkling lights fade and they are left in the dark with nothing but each other, she is reminded of everything they are, and everything that they wish to be. Can be.

All of the things that they have spent this entire year of their lives building and rebuilding, shaping into something new and exciting, stronger, and just a little bit terrifying.

After everything that was said tonight, all of those long-held secrets shared, for the first time since they both woke up on the Stormbringer, Benedikta finally feels like her wings can spread, and even were she to fall, he would no doubt be there to catch her. She finally feels... just a little bit free. Freer than she has ever felt in the skies, the wind whipping at her hair because at least now, her heart can love a little easier.



It will be quite some time before they emerge above deck, well into the later hours of the morning. There, they share breakfast, they laugh, they hold each other, even dance together again. Even longer before they return home to the Roost, rosy-cheeked and giddy with laughter, hands still all over each other, with people no doubt asking questions about what has them in such a good mood...

Before their door is locked and Benedikta drags her Outlaw Captain back to bed again......]