Not afraid {bhu}

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

"I will always catch you." It was a promise, a pact. We were each other's sanity, the last strings holding us to reality. That could be seen in our need to touch, to see, to hear the other. Our story was a gory one, and our breed made of demonic souls, but it was a story of joy. When you pushed past the cobwebs littered with the carcasses of our existance, there was a field of simple bliss. But only together could that meadow be found.

"Oh, Paradox," What did I want to say? I love you? Seemed repetive and empty. I needed to say more but found my words had fled me. So, I left the words to dangle in the air as I pushed further into his chest. I felt his beating heart and I knew that mine beat too. We were alive, despite all the odds playing again. And not only alive; we were free. I suddenly knew what I had wanted to say.

"The chains and shackles, they have been broken. Paradox...we're home."

Home. I finally knew what it meant to be living.

[I L Y I C H]

I pressed my chin harder against her, feeling that the firmer our connection the harder it would be to break. But the touch did not in truth matter. This pact is what mattered. These oaths. Our vows. These words would hold us together no matter how much distance shoved between. Forever and always. "Thank you." It was simple and pure. Words spoken so thick with emotion that I was mildly surprised they managed to come out in English. They had been subconscious after all, and more often then not those deepest thoughts came out in French. Ah but it seemed I was learning. Learning from her. My smile actually hurt it stretched so far. The muscles of my jaw ached but I could not stop it. It would not falter or fall. Not even an inch.

She need not complete the phrase. My precious scarlet dancer. Ayita knew that I would understand, of that I was sure. There was simply no need. So many words fell to end such a sentence. So many emotions that one could spend eons trying to state aloud. I merely nuzzled closer to her, almost purring in the depths of my joy. The last few days had been so thick with grief and fear, yet here suddenly it all washed away. I felt as if stones had been removed from my gut, their leaving making room for air and happiness once more. The sigh that expanded my freed lungs pressed out warm and damp across her neck and skull. Oh how I missed this. How I missed her touch and the beat of her heart against my own.

Turning my head to rub my jaw across her ears, I coiled tighter around her. Legs pressing and mixing about her own I cuddled closer not caring in the least that some of the children and my sister had stopped to stare at us. Precious darling little bird. Moi Ami. "Home. Together and free, my love." I pulled back slightly, ebony lips curved up into what was one of the most adoring expression that had ever graced my face. Shifting slightly I gave her a soft little kiss, brushing my tongue gently against her cheek before pressing my inky snout once more to her own red-white muzzle. "Always"