[color=#7CD98A]"That's why you keep me around? Hmmmm?" [/color] His fingers playfully danced across her skin, his touch light. [color=#7CD98A]"I think that means I have to try harder to add a few more reasons to that list." [/color] His lips found her neck.
She was right - he'd always been careful. He'd always been determined to figure out how to achieve the best outcome from every situation - often at expense of spontaneity. In all of his life, only three people had made him want to forget himself, even if just for a while. He'd lost all three of them, though fate had been kind enough to give him a second chance with Lara. It was something he was determined not to let slip away.
So now he sought balance - careful planning that allowed him to seize the moment whenever he had the chance. Preparation that enabled uninhibited whimsy. Which is why, at a moment when he should probably be planning, all he wanted to dive across the bed and tickle her until she couldn't breathe.
Eularia laughed, completely oblivious to his plan of tickling her until she couldn't breathe. Uhuh. That's the only reason, for sure. Definitely. In the moment, she could think of ten more reasons; but saying them out loud was another reminder that she was falling in love...
...and it felt so right? But at the same time somewhere in the back of her mind proclaimed that she was wrong to love this man. And another part of her reminded her that she'd been the one to fall head-over-heels first, in this particular relationship.
Eularia's crush on Magnus had been so well-known, that her friends teased her endlessly, until the day she (yes, she) finally asked him out. It was foolish and stupid, and she'd been so certain she'd marry this man.
She'd been wild and free back then.
Eularia grinned as she moved the breakfast tray off of the bed entirely, rolling onto her side to study Magnus. Everything felt perfect.
It was like a dream that she'd had as a girl. Him in her bed, a baby on the way, snuggled into his chest. It was... perfect.
Hey, she hummed up at him. You'll always stay with me, right? Some part of her fretted that Frankie had taken his chance to leave her; delirious, positively wrong, but she couldn't help but wonder. It was the only thing, in her mind, that explained him not being at that safe house.
03-28-2023, 07:00 PM
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Magnus's playfulness didn't go away, but it certainly took a moment to let his sincerity underscore his words. His fingers found hers.
[color=#7CD98A]"My heart is yours and has been since that night so long ago. That's never going to change. So as long as you'll have me, I'll always be with you." [/color]
It wasn't exactly the answer he wanted to give. He wanted to promise forever, to promise that he'd never leave her. He just couldn't. The truth is that he would leave, in a heartbeat, if that was the only way she had a shot at happiness. What it came down to was that he would do whatever was necessary to make her happy, even if it meant he couldn't be.
That anyone else would do something different was beyond his comprehension. It was unforgivable. Fuck that guy.
[color=#7CD98A]"And, before you ask...yes, I fully intend to have my spirit follow you around like an invisible guardian after I die. If you want to be rid of me, you'll have to burn sage or chase me away with a broomstick or something."[/color] The lighthearted tone was back in his voice, his smile cheerful. [color=#7CD98A]"You're gonna have to work really hard to convince me my place is anywhere other than by your side, Lara. I'm persistent."[/color]
Then he kissed her, doing his best to assuage all of her fears and worries. Together, they were unstoppable.
Eularia hummed, as he answered. It wasn't what she'd wanted to hear but it was... enough, for now. And then he was lighthearted, teasing again, and she giggled quietly.
When you die, I'll just keep your bones. She promised, as if it were the most romantic thing in the world to promise someone she loved.
He kissed her, and she leaned into it. Breaking it to whisper, Thank you. As she adjusted where she was on the bed, rolling onto her back to stare at the ceiling, she yawned.
And immediately grumbled about being sleepy.
03-29-2023, 10:19 AM
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Magnus adjusted his own positioning, letting the length of his body touch hers.
[color=#7CD98A]"I would be heartbroken if you did anything less." [/color] When he said he wanted to be by her side always, he meant it.
He watched as her eyes seemed to grow heavy with sleep, each blink stretching out longer than the previous. When her eyelids finally stayed closed he lay there for a bit, watching her. Laying here on the bed against her, listening to her soft breath...it was heaven. It wouldn't last, but that just made it more important to savor the time now.
After a long while, he slipped from the bed and started to make preparations for the day - he had a dessert to make. For today, at least, they could pretend like they didn't have the weight of responsibility looming overhead. Today they could pretend that they had a simple life filled to the brim with happiness, warmth, hope, and love. Today, he wanted to give her a taste of one of the lives that could be theirs.
