Darling please, just give us some time, and I swear we'll be alright
There are no expectations upon her emotions, and for that she counts her blessings. Surely he can see her gratitude in her red-rimmed eyes, though she will not speak it aloud. However weak she may be around them, soft and malleable and in love, there are some walls too old and well-built to scale that remain firmly planted in her mind. He asks nothing but what she is willing to give, and that alone helps to ease the residual ache of emotion that has been forced back behind those walls. Erasing what little pain she carries from these events, and once more she wishes she could take the more physical wounds from her lovers if only to even what feels like a terribly biased score.
Sunjata's hands are gentle as they smooth through her tousled hair, and she smiles, feeling like a cracked open cavern finally seeing sunlight after weeks without it. The touch of his forehead to hers is a flood of warmth that she had feared would only live in her dreams, and she melts into it as much as their bodies allow, basking in the simplicity of his presence. His eyelashes tickle against her cheeks, full as they are with the smile she cannot control, and a soft huff of laughter escapes her lips at the rumble of his words as they brush across her mouth with how close they remain. "I wouldn't call three big by any means," she chides, soft and playful as her own eyes fall closed beneath the squint of a wrinkled nose when he kisses it. When he withdraws, she lifts a hand to gently cup his face, careful to be lighthanded and to only trace the curve of his lip with her fingertips. "You have nothing to make up for that simply being here can't fix." A firm, unyielding reassurance. Nothing that had happened was his fault, and she cannot dream of any sort of reparations when he has already suffered through so much. "Just...be here. With us. That's all you need to do for me."
Sunjata's hands are gentle as they smooth through her tousled hair, and she smiles, feeling like a cracked open cavern finally seeing sunlight after weeks without it. The touch of his forehead to hers is a flood of warmth that she had feared would only live in her dreams, and she melts into it as much as their bodies allow, basking in the simplicity of his presence. His eyelashes tickle against her cheeks, full as they are with the smile she cannot control, and a soft huff of laughter escapes her lips at the rumble of his words as they brush across her mouth with how close they remain. "I wouldn't call three big by any means," she chides, soft and playful as her own eyes fall closed beneath the squint of a wrinkled nose when he kisses it. When he withdraws, she lifts a hand to gently cup his face, careful to be lighthanded and to only trace the curve of his lip with her fingertips. "You have nothing to make up for that simply being here can't fix." A firm, unyielding reassurance. Nothing that had happened was his fault, and she cannot dream of any sort of reparations when he has already suffered through so much. "Just...be here. With us. That's all you need to do for me."
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