The recording starts with the image of the Seelie king. He’s beautiful, painfully so, even through the buffer of the older technology. There’s an air of raw honest when he starts to speak. As if he’s pouring out his heart to the viewer one on one rather than to an interviewer with a recorder.

I remember that there was a young human woman I was in ( Read more... )

"I always thought as different as we are, somehow we could still be together. And now I don't know."
- Sookie Stackhouse, True Blood

Mab took the kids out to dinner because she wanted to be clear headed for the night she sent the papers for the divorce he had asked for once. Signed and initialed this time. He would blame her and perhaps it was her ( Read more... )

You tell her everyday, in as many ways as you can think of. Because she’s fragile in ways there are no words for. Because she’ll survive not being told when you might not.

( When you wake up before her... )

Deep red petals float through the air lazily, one at a time. He loves her. He loves her not. A child's game with some truth hidden in it. With the right flower plucked at the proper time with the proper hand. He loves her. He loves her not. She's playing with herself and with abilities that have been coming and going in waves. There's something ( Read more... )

I miss the sex.( I miss the freedom... )

Marrying a man like Bobby is like keeping a pitbull. It changes the way you live and how you deal with people. You warn the people you like. Let them know what they’re getting into when he comes around and if he’s a danger to them. Some people will always react strong to him. There is a judgement in the act having him. A different statement to each ( Read more... )

Warm fingers tucked a strand of hair behind her ear lightly. Just enough contact to make her eyelids flutter open and look up at Auberon. Her husband had so many faces, so many selves, but there was something in the eyes that never changed. He kissed her softly, his eyes too sad and serious for the gentle brush of lips ( Read more... )

Mab would have known the first day of spring if calendars and ways of defining time had never been invented. The dance of the seasons went on even if Winter had lost her truest partner. There was no dance between the King and Queen of their respective seasons because Mab refused to dance with the child who sat on the throne like an equal. He never ( Read more... )

Bobby found Brennan starring at the bathroom door. Brennan didn’t look like he needed to go to bathroom, just holding his hands with now drying paint on his hands. Not exactly normal Brennan behavior by any stretch.

“What’s going on, buddy?”

“Mom’s been in the bathroom for a long time and I have to wash my hands.”

Bobby frowned. “Why don’t you go wash ( Read more... )

Co-written with animus_nocendi

“I need you.”

( Implied sex and non-descriptive nudity )