Breathe ⇒ w/ recluserose

[recluserose]

[Advanced Placement tests are just around the corner and that means Amelia has to come home a little later than usual due to holding review sessions at school. It was one of the few times in her life where she felt like getting a migraine from having to go over lines from Paradise Lost or the symbols and language of Moby Dick, or the extensive relationship between the characters in Wuthering Heights.

Just ENOUGH already! She wanted to go home and rest peacefully as usual! But when walking up to her door and about to turn the knob, it hits her that going home isn't 'the usual' anymore.

For the first time in a long while she knows someone is waiting for her.

Not letting her tired and irate mood get to her, she enters.]

I'm home!

Comments

[spellbent]

[ He sees that look on her face, and tears or no tears, he knows what it means. He sits up, and pulls her into his arms. ]

I would do anything for you, Amelia.

[recluserose]

[His embrace brings a smile to her face (she had been doing that a lot lately and it was strange) and she settles into it relaxing.]

You've done more than enough.

[spellbent]

[ Warren has always been patient and diligent and devoted- and now, having thrown everything else away, he's devoted solely to her. When he says he'd do anything for her, he means it. ]

I love you.

[recluserose]

[It's as if all she needs at that very moment to live on were those words and him at the same time. She leans against him closing her eyes murmuring back]

I love you too.

[spellbent]

[ He's perfectly happy to hold her like that for a while, fingers occasionally combing through her hair ]

[recluserose]

... Mm.

I hope this makes up for making you wait?

[spellbent]

You know I would have waited for as long as it took.

... Not that I'm complaining, mind. [ he grins a little, kissing the top of her head ]

[recluserose]

Would you really?

Sometimes I think you're more patient than I am.

[spellbent]

In a hundred-plus years, you kind of learn that the things you really want are worth waiting for.

[recluserose]

Ah, yes. I almost keep forgetting about age most of the time.

[spellbent]

I don't blame you. It's easy to do.

[recluserose]

[Taking his hand and kissing his fingertips]

Thank you for waiting then.

[spellbent]

It was worth it.

[recluserose]

I'll need to be careful in the future or else it'll be hard to leave your side.

[spellbent]

What do you mean? Are you thinking about skipping more days of school?

[recluserose]

I probably won't do that again. Hopefully.

[spellbent]

I'll refrain from being a bad influence.

[recluserose]

That's what holidays and days off are for.

[spellbent]

For me to be a bad influence? [ a chuckle ] I'll remember that.