It was amusing to watch Corrine attempt to peek outside her blindfold. He got the sense she was the type who'd shake Christmas packages in her youth
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"Please don't-- I'm not upset at you. I know you meant well." She takes his arms and pulls them around her. She needs it right now. "What Caleb and I had is ours. Just because my heart belongs to you now doesn't negate how I felt then, and that it was an important thing for me. I can't take that back and give it to you, and I don't want to. I loved him first, that's just how it happened. That's not yours, Sand. You can't touch it. It's been tainted by Neron and circumstances, but it still belongs to just he and I."
She collects herself with a few deep breaths and gives him a genuine smile. "What we have is sacred, too; kissing you for real the first time. That morning on the couch with you holding me, like nothing was going to break us and I wasn't alone. Praying and begging God to give me a second chance to have the rest of my life with you, and then seeing your eyes flutter open and seeing me first. This." Her hand dips around to twine in his and she grips tight. "No one else will ever be able to touch those. What I have with you doesn't have to be measured against something else to validate it. It stands in a class all its own that nothing else can come near. I'm sorry if what you wanted was someone else who had their first experience to share with you. I only have this, and it is forever to me even if it isn't the first. I promise you right now that I can and will give you everything of me that I'm capable of. When I think of myself in fifty or sixty years with my life mostly behind me, I want you right there. I want to make every dream you've ever had come true, and I'll do my damnest to give you that, but I can't give those things away that are irreplaceable and sacred to me and someone else. I love you fiercely, but it isn't even entirely mine to give."
Sand takes it all in, and nods. What she said made sense, and was fair, and she was right.
"I...I'm sorry. You're right, that was unfair of me...it's..." He takes a deep breath. "Having spent my life alongside someone who's every prophetic dream came true, someone who's had every prophetic dream come true, and now not only has to glimpse hard future, but also relive the past in way I can't even control..."
His composure slowly starts to crack. "I'm trying with every ounce I've got to convince myself that us is real and it's not going anywhere. But that thought goes against everything that is rational to my life, simply because every prophecy that's ever come near my life has come true. Every...last...one. I'm...I'm trying..."
Corrine's arms go around him and pull him close. She wishes just her grip could be enough to convince him that she's here and this is where she wants to be beyond anywhere else in the world. "I know," she says solidly. She shakes her head and smiles even through a line of tears. "I can't live with the sick feeling that at any moment someone else's plans are going to tear us apart. I don't even know if that's part of His plan, and I can't presume to know. Maybe it's about time all of us chilled out and stopped assuming anything. Nothing about my faith or finding God was ever simple. The only thing I knew for certain sometimes was that there was something that compelled me to Him, and I needed Him in my life. I needed Him beside me even if sometimes I didn't know why, or if it would go well for me in the end. I just had to have faith in what I felt and what I knew to be real.
"I don't know what that prophecy means for certain-- none of us do. I can't know what will happen or when, but in the meantime I'm not going to forsake something amazing because of some unknown something at some point in the future. I plan to love you with every ounce of me that there is; even if sometimes I don't know why, or if it will go well for me in the end. I'm willing to take that risk, with my life. I made sure Enchantress knew that and I will make that choice until there's no more breath left in me."
Corrine does and gets it, kissing his forehead as she laughs. This wasn't as scary as it looked at the on-set and for that she's grateful. Besides, he was right; they both had to hear each other for that moment.
"We did. I did. The last thing I ever want to do is hurt you." There's a hand slowly creeping up his leg, fingers tracing a soft pattern along the way. She leans in for a kiss. "Quite the opposite."
Sand smiles. "Now stop that. I spent some good long hours figuring out how to seduce you while still keeping my boyish innocent charm, and I'd at least like to try some of my ideas before you show me yours...your ideas, I...eeep." He grins sheepishly, then smiles shyly. "What I mean is...well...I'm ready. If you are."
"I am." It's all she can say around the grin. She's content to let him have lead of this moment; it looks cute on him and there's something to be said for a guy that wants to take the time. Okay, butterflies.
Music isn't needed. The sound of the ocean against the beach is better than anything else that could be playing.
It's been almost a year. The sound of the ocean and Sand's warm lips against her skin relax her until she's melted into his embrace. She lets her head tilt lazily to the side as her breath hitches just a little deeper.
Re: ONE HOUR (or so) LATER...damage_girlNovember 2 2006, 21:33:01 UTC
Hehe.
There's a stupid grin plastered to Corrine's face as she pulls the blanket up around both of them and snuggles against Sand. She hums out a happy little sigh and gives him a peck at the edge of his jaw. "Decidely not clueless."
She breathes. First quiet moment after the 'kablooie', but now the quiet is striking things at the edge of her mind. Closer than they've ever been and she still feels a little like it's going to be snatched away. This time she can do something about it, and stop it maybe before it gets too far.
She sits up and takes his hand. "I need to tell you something. Now just seemed the best-- it kind of scares me and I had to think about how I wanted to feel about it, if that makes any sense." Another breath. "I think something's going on with my family. I don't know what and I want to find out. I'm not going to let them do something to us. I don't know what they might do."
Sand sits up as well. "Do somethin...wait, does this have something to do with your trip back to Kenton? You've been a little on edge since that time."
"Yeah. The day after everything, Angie called. She asked if I wanted to tell her anything."
Corrine shakes her head. "I didn't say anything, so Louis and Angie went out to Kenton. I met them there and we argued about the house. Something's changed about them, though. None of us have ever really gotten along with each other, but they've never been hostile. Angie kept trying to make me answer questions about Caleb, and who you were, and it just--"
She takes a deep breath and leans into him a little more. "There's nothing they can do to us. I won't let them. I don't know what they know or how they know, but they know something, or at least they think they do. Something I don't know. It was like she was trying to test and make sure I didn't know."
She collects herself with a few deep breaths and gives him a genuine smile. "What we have is sacred, too; kissing you for real the first time. That morning on the couch with you holding me, like nothing was going to break us and I wasn't alone. Praying and begging God to give me a second chance to have the rest of my life with you, and then seeing your eyes flutter open and seeing me first. This." Her hand dips around to twine in his and she grips tight. "No one else will ever be able to touch those. What I have with you doesn't have to be measured against something else to validate it. It stands in a class all its own that nothing else can come near. I'm sorry if what you wanted was someone else who had their first experience to share with you. I only have this, and it is forever to me even if it isn't the first. I promise you right now that I can and will give you everything of me that I'm capable of. When I think of myself in fifty or sixty years with my life mostly behind me, I want you right there. I want to make every dream you've ever had come true, and I'll do my damnest to give you that, but I can't give those things away that are irreplaceable and sacred to me and someone else. I love you fiercely, but it isn't even entirely mine to give."
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"I...I'm sorry. You're right, that was unfair of me...it's..." He takes a deep breath. "Having spent my life alongside someone who's every prophetic dream came true, someone who's had every prophetic dream come true, and now not only has to glimpse hard future, but also relive the past in way I can't even control..."
His composure slowly starts to crack. "I'm trying with every ounce I've got to convince myself that us is real and it's not going anywhere. But that thought goes against everything that is rational to my life, simply because every prophecy that's ever come near my life has come true. Every...last...one. I'm...I'm trying..."
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"I don't know what that prophecy means for certain-- none of us do. I can't know what will happen or when, but in the meantime I'm not going to forsake something amazing because of some unknown something at some point in the future. I plan to love you with every ounce of me that there is; even if sometimes I don't know why, or if it will go well for me in the end. I'm willing to take that risk, with my life. I made sure Enchantress knew that and I will make that choice until there's no more breath left in me."
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He chuckles in the face of his own pun. Sometimes he wonders if anyone shares his sense of humor at times.
He then looks in her eyes and smiles. "I think we both needed that."
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"We did. I did. The last thing I ever want to do is hurt you." There's a hand slowly creeping up his leg, fingers tracing a soft pattern along the way. She leans in for a kiss. "Quite the opposite."
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His approach is gentle, yet with serious intent. Within about two minutes, he's gently kissed and caressed his way to her neck.
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It's been almost a year. The sound of the ocean and Sand's warm lips against her skin relax her until she's melted into his embrace. She lets her head tilt lazily to the side as her breath hitches just a little deeper.
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wow.
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There's a stupid grin plastered to Corrine's face as she pulls the blanket up around both of them and snuggles against Sand. She hums out a happy little sigh and gives him a peck at the edge of his jaw. "Decidely not clueless."
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She sits up and takes his hand. "I need to tell you something. Now just seemed the best-- it kind of scares me and I had to think about how I wanted to feel about it, if that makes any sense." Another breath. "I think something's going on with my family. I don't know what and I want to find out. I'm not going to let them do something to us. I don't know what they might do."
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Corrine shakes her head. "I didn't say anything, so Louis and Angie went out to Kenton. I met them there and we argued about the house. Something's changed about them, though. None of us have ever really gotten along with each other, but they've never been hostile. Angie kept trying to make me answer questions about Caleb, and who you were, and it just--"
She takes a deep breath and leans into him a little more. "There's nothing they can do to us. I won't let them. I don't know what they know or how they know, but they know something, or at least they think they do. Something I don't know. It was like she was trying to test and make sure I didn't know."
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