Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - Jean-Claude/Anita Blake -- Epsilon
All He Ever
An Anita Blake story for 1sentence
by mhalachaiswords
Fandom: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Pairing: Jean-Claude/Anita Blake
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: up to PG
Notes: Contains vague spoilers up to the latest published book, Incubus Dreams.
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01. Motion
She is always moving -- heat beating, lips breathing -- a living contrast to Jean-Claude's stillness.
02. Cool
During their first kiss, in the warm summer rain, Anita's trembling lips burned hot against his coolness.
03. Young
She always looks younger than she is -- except when she's pointing a gun at his heart.
04. Last
He always kisses her as if it is the last time... for all his powers, he cannot see the future.
05. Wrong
Only once has he wondered if he was wrong to make her his human servant.
06. Gentle
He is never as gentle as when he kisses her.
07. One
She is the only one to whom he tells the truth... when she wants it.
08. Thousand
He's been with thousands of women, but the touch of her hands was the first time he knew he was lost.
09. King
Many men want to be king, but they do not know how it is to be subject to the whims of such a queen.
10. Learn
Learning what Anita wants is a never-ending job... most days, he enjoys the lessons.
11. Blur
He still has the ability to blur her vision for a short time, but he finds that he all he wants now is for her to see him clearly.
12. Wait
He knows that if he sleeps with other women, Anita would use such infidelity as an excuse to leave him... so he waits for her.
13. Change
She thinks that he has changed; she will not admit to herself is that she is the one who is different.
14. Command
He will do whatever she commands, because he knows what she will not ask him to do.
15. Hold
When she needs comfort, to be held, she will not allow him to touch her.
16. Need
For over four hundred years, he took blood from his lovers whenever he needed it; now, he waits until she offers.
17. Vision
She says she is not beautiful, but Jean-Claude wishes she could see herself through his eyes.
18. Attention
When she is in his bed, he finds it very easy to command her full attention.
19. Soul
The only times he mourns the loss of his soul is when she lies injured, and he cannot pray for her.
20. Picture
He catches her staring at the portrait of himself, Asher and Julianna, but he cannot bring himself to ask her what she is thinking.
21. Fool
Maybe she makes a fool out of him, but he is in love, and love has made fools out of men for all time.
22. Mad
She is mad at him almost every other week, but he has only once ever directed his anger toward her.
23. Child
Compared to him, she is a child... he loves that innocence and wonder in her.
24. Now
Every day, when he wakes, he wonders what she is doing, and when he will see her, and if she still loves him.
25. Shadow
More and more, a shadow lies over her face, heavy with the weight of the death she causes... he cannot find the words to tell her that he understands.
26. Goodbye
She's left him in the past, but he knows until their deaths it will never be over between them, never be goodbye.
27. Hide
For the longest time, he hid his loneliness... Anita came along and ripped his emotions out for the world to see.
28. Fortune
She has never demanded jewels or clothes or furs -- only him.
29. Safe
Nothing is safe, not their love, not their lives, but he knows that she will never give up on him.
30. Ghost
He waits for the ghosts of his past to drive her away.
31. Book
He silently traces the words he cannot say onto her skin... her skin a living parchment for his love and despair, hopes and fears.
32. Eye
On more than one occasion, when she is refusing to speak to him, he wonders if it would be easier to push a camel through the eye of a needle, than truly understand this woman.
33. Never
There are only two things he will never do for Anita.
34. Sing
She sings so badly that it's cute, and he always has to hide his smile from her.
35. Sudden
He never believed in love at first sight, until he saw her under a streetlight at a bloody crime scene.
36. Stop
There are times she tells him to stop, that he is overwhelming her... he obeys her instantly, even though he fears she will never let him begin again.
37. Time
He drifted from year to year, over the centuries, but now that he has her he feels as though he is running out of time.
38. Wash
He washes her touch from his body after she is gone... he will not hold on to fading memories.
39. Torn
Her heart is so fragile, he fears he will say the wrong thing and tear her apart.
40. History
She studied history, he lived it... she still had a hard time asking him what things were like, so many years ago.
41. Power
His power grows when he is around her; the touch of her body sometimes makes him believe he will live again.
42. Bother
She never pesters him, demanding to know how much he loves her.
43. God
He knows God has abandoned him, but he will never let Anita fall from grace.
44. Wall
Trying to talk to her when she is angry is like trying to shout through a stone wall.
45. Naked
He really likes the way she looks naked... and only part of his enjoyment is sexual.
46. Drive
He wonders if he should learn to drive... it pricks his male pride that she always drives them to dinner.
47. Harm
He cannot protect her from all harm, and that knowledge eats away at him.
48. Precious
For so many years, he had nothing but his looks; now he has everything he ever wanted, and he wonders when he will lose that which is most precious to him.
49. Hunger
He aches to sate all of his hungers with her body... yet he denies himself, so as to not scare her from his bed.
50. Believe
For the first time in five hundred years, he has something to believe in -- her.