i will take your breath away

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FEMALE - SIX - MATE: IFRIT - IMPRINT: REICH

This is what pain feels like. Not the flesh wound from the aftermath of a fight but a deep pain that seems to choke and strangle her heart. She does not remember a pain like this, even when she learned she had been dumped by her parents within the hell hole that was her home. None of the crude words or flashing teeth of those that were "family" had ever made her feel this way. This is a ache that settles in her bones, one that she fears will forever remain for she had hurt the one soul in the world she had vowed to cherish. The one soul that could ever possibly make her feel love, in any form; despite the fact she does not even understand that four letter word. This is what heart ache felt like, this is what breaks the female who had been fighting against the world, Reich. The power he holds over her is one that no one else will possess and she gave it willingly to him. That night in the Grotto he owned her in spirit, soul, and heart. Even if he does not have her body he holds all else that matters and who is to say in the end that even he will not have all that is her. Tainted but whole.

Despite the utter devastation she had brought she cannot force herself to leave him, to resist him, to run. To do so would shatter any hope she had left, any chance that there is in a fact a small flicker in those shadows that will bring them together in time. As he brushes the tears from her cheek, kissing her own flesh as if to soothe her despite it all. His sad smile and shaking head as she watches the words fall from his lips. Please don't. Just those voiceless words cause another tear to fall, for even in his pain he still wants to soothe and it is wrecking utter chaos in her chest. Every heartbeat is a gasping pain. As the organ itself seems to constrict and throb. Her soul is silent, mourning despite the fact he is here before her but not how it wants. It wants to be complete and instead it is divided, wanting him when it is the giant that holds those reigns.

As she comes to rest, her ear landing upon his chest as she listens to the heart that she wants and yet doesn't. He is what her fairy tale demands, a good life, a happy one. And yet the pain she is showing does not make her worthy enough to obtain it. As he embraces her, his own neck clinging over her own as she cries at the sound she hears in his chest, one she made. Her words are choked in the emotions, no longer hiding her own pain as she seems to cling to him tighter as if he will leave her, even though perhaps she deserves it. At the cold touch of his nose she jumps slightly orange eyes breaking open as vision is blurred by the tears as he lifts her head so their eyes can clash. Pain against pain. He mouths and she is shaking her head in disagreement. Ears plastered upon her skull, as he says there is nothing to forgive. No! There was! Can't he see, can't he see that even when she chose another it is him she wants for eternity. Ifrit was her mate, her chosen half while Reich is her complete, her whole!

The tears seems to fall harder as if they cannot be stopped, she feels as if she is breaking. Shattering like glass. She had never felt like this, even in her home she never bowed to a pain. But here, right now she wants to submit give in and seek just what she desires. And those next words he mouths cause her chest to explode. I will always love you Everlyse........No matter what. Her mind gives a voice to his words as it screams over and over in her head. That's all she can hear. Love. Love. Love. Love. Eyes shut tightly as her body trembles from the weight of those words. Her tongue is trapped by teeth as the taste of iron proves she is biting back the reply. She wants to say it back, wants to give him that. But is it love when at this time she cannot give him it all? When, and I mean when not if those words are to be said it will be a time when she can give him her all. As she buries her muzzle into his cheek, nuzzling him as a torrent of whispers leak from her lips as she repeats his words. One day she will give him that, one day when they can come together. He will know the power behind that four letter word that is for him and him alone.

As their tears stain his black and her white, holding one another as if the world does not exist, as she whispers heavily into his fur. "I promise.." She voices those words as if a broken record, a promise to her, to him that one day they will love unlike any other. One day that will remain forever together until age break them, and not even then. She will have him no matter what life will be waiting for her after. In this moment she is falling. Taking that jump that will bring them together when she meets the ground. She promises to love him, to say those words without anything to counteract them. This is her promise, her vow. For after the storm there is peace. A peace she wants with him.

everlyse

OF ASTERAIA