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[maple_sickles]

[Sunday morning--it's Halloween]

[his eyes open slowly to sunlight filtering through their bedroom windoq]

[maple_sickles]

[kisses the crown of her head, blinking back the prickling of tears before she makes eye contact with him again]

I truly never thought I would have something like this, hated, malingering creature that I am. But you love me... and I believe it. And in this house we're building a glorious future...

I--

[and again the choked up, emotional little smile, with no smugness or evil whatsoever behind it]

[maple_sickles]

[moves up her hand to caresses his eyebrow again]

Matthew. You are not a creature. I never thought that this could be possible- we found each other. And I'm

[swallows hard]

so much luckier for it. I love you, so very much. Our family together.

[maple_sickles]

[soft, helpless little noise]

[kisses her fiercely, over and over]

[pulls back just a little, lips slightly bruised]

[...notices a single gray hair at her temple]

[buries his face in her neck]

I wouldn't know how to live without you...

[his fingers clench more tightly around her, just a fraction]

[maple_sickles]

[noise is answered in those kisses]

[needy, open, longer...]

[holds him to her]

Family Matthew, what comes after... I'll always be with you. I promise.

[squeezes back, winces a little but tightens her hold]

[maple_sickles]

[she promises.... it's a lofty promise, but right now he has no choice but to trust in it]

[existing without her would be agonizing]

And I with you. As long as you'll have me, I will never leave your side.

[loosens his hold just a little, opting instead to rub her back]

[they may be partners, but she's practically radiating maternal energy, and he can't help but be soothed]

[maple_sickles]

[kisses the top of his head]

[silky strands]

[he and her family are her world]

Then forever it shall be.

[smiles into his hair]

[keeps stroking down his back]

[maple_sickles]

[lulled into a half-sleeping reverie]

[What comes after... he can hardly imagine anything more]

[a little girl... she'll be as beautiful as her mother. He's... finally anchored. Finally he truly belongs.]

[it's this moment he'll think of in the days and years to come, when it will seem like there's nothing left to live for, and when memories will be all he has to hold on to]

[maple_sickles]

[sighs and breathes into his hair]

[what comes after is beyond dreams, tranquility like this moment]

[keeps stroking over his back]

[for as long as she will live, as will her family- she thinks of little Matthew and Katherine hugging their father]

[this is what truly matters, the peaceful and glorious future that awaits them]