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 Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 10:12 pm
duty
She didn't reply for three hours.Quote: Text to Gale <333:Sorry. You'll get used to it, mi corazon~ Quote: Text to Gale <333:you're even on Twitter again so proud <3333 Quote: Text to Gale <333:Tink dlkfjldsajfl awwwwwwww emotion_kirakira emotion_kirakira Quote: Text to Gale <333:She's so cute I'm so glad you saved her from the labs omg
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 10:16 pm
monsters inside me
Between his touch, her tiredness, and the familiar words, Stormy feel asleep within the first chapter, not a sign of her previous madness to be seen. Sleep was the only time she ever looked this relaxed these days, assuming nightmares didn't swoop down. Tonight, she was cursed with nothing more than a slightly open mouth that promised drooling in the morning and possibly in Gale's hair if she accidentally sleep-curled around him.
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 11:18 pm
making amends
She took her time, piecing back together the memories she had tried for so long to bury and forget.
"I get it. Neither of us asked for this. But no matter how hard you wish on your little stars, it’s not going to make me suddenly disappear," he had said on their night watch in the desert.
"I don’t wish that," she had insisted.
Stormy closed her eyes and let him tap away, grateful for any and all contact.
"I know it's no surprise to hear, but I was an odd girl. I mean, everything I am aside, there were also the things we could see as hunters, you know? I'd freak out in class or in the middle of the hall because I'd swear the shadows moved, or I saw something that wasn't supposed to be there, or I'd try to talk to them mostly, try and figure out if they could see me too and if they wanted something. Mami and Papi eventually put me to a psychiatrist but--" She waved the thought away for rudely interrupting.
"Rumors about me being crazy followed me around. Not like actively don't touch her she's nuts, I didn't matter enough to most people anyway, and I was harmless. Something like a more negative version of Luna Lovegood I guess is a good way to put it. But I had one good friend, Layla, who I'd known since maybe fifth grade. She stuck it out with me. I dunno if she honestly ever believed what I saw, but she cared enough to believe that I believed, and that meant the world to me." She smiled a little sheepishly. "I didn't make friends really easily when I was a kid. I was really quiet 'cause that was better than opening my mouth and getting made fun of. I knew I wasn't normal, I just didn't know how to pretend to be. Layla was really cool about things..."
She started to drift into her memories and forgot Gale's question.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:32 am
duty
He tried not to be too worried (she had told him, after all, that she was busy watching over Tuck), and Gale most definitely did not want to play the part of the overprotective significant other.
He wasn't Evan.Quote: Text to <3:I think I will get the hang of it soon. Hopefully. Quote: Text to <3:Yes, I thought I might give it a try again. Feels a little awkward, but it seems okay... Quote: Text to <3:She is now climbing onto my desk and trying to stick her nose in my ear. I think she wants to say hello. Attachment: tinkme.img Quote: Text to <3:I'm glad too. She has been very comforting to me.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:38 am
making amends
She was right, it wasn't surprising; Stormy had always been a little peculiar, but that was most of the reason why Gale had liked her so much from the beginning. It was that sort of strange and beautiful personality that had drawn him in and now, here they were, after so long.
He listened silently while she spoke, his fingers still tapping at her legs, and after a moment he said quietly, "I was a quiet child too, but I'm a quiet adult as well, so that hasn't really changed much, really."
Which was sort of embarrassing, but that was beside the point. Gale lapsed into silence again, waiting for her to continue.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:41 am
monsters inside me
He only got to the part about Sirius Black's name before Stormy fell asleep, and he could almost feel it; her breathing became slow and deep and even, the room softening around her, and Gale slowly closed the book as he looked down at her. He read a few more pages, until the end of the second chapter, then set the book down and curled up beside her, trying to ignore the conflicting senses of relief and anxiousness warring in his stomach. One arm looped gently around Stormy's waist, Gale pulling her close, and then he closed his eyes, eased out a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding, and tried to sleep.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:50 am
by any other name
His smile was muffled by the kisses she gave him, but the blush was obvious as it spread further across his cheeks; a stark contrast to his normally pale face (and an annoyance, as he always seemed to blush so easily and so obviously). Gale's thumb smoothed up the lightning bolt, a terribly silly sense of happiness welling in his chest.
"It's fantastic," he said, after a moment, and he looked at her, his eyes full of an adoration that he still wasn't quite able to tone down to a more reasonable level. "Thank you, Stormy, it's...I love it."
He reached out and touched her cheek, still marveling at her gift, and then said, "I should get you another charm to match; when I gave you that bracelet, we hadn't started dating yet, so I should fix that."medigel all of ur avis make me giggle
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:15 pm
dutyQuote: Text to Gale <333:You learn quickly so no worries~ Quote: Text to Gale <333:EVERYWHERE IS CUTE AND NOTHING HURTS LOOKIT U PRECIOUS THING SO CUTE I CAN'T also hi gale i c you're there ; DDD Quote: Text to Gale <333:Maybe I should pick her a playmate! Then the children and your poor ear will be safe!
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:00 pm
by any other name
She managed for once to hold that gaze for one-two-three-four seconds, and then she turned a sheepish grin on him, closed her eyes, and dealt with her rising blush by kissing him. She didn't like to remember that the bracelet had come back weatherbeaten and tarnished from the mission; it had served its purpose in being her lucky charm, but she wished she could have taken better care of it.
"We had been dating," Stormy told him in a gentle matter of fact tone, leaning into his hand for a moment. "Not aloud, but we had been already, I think~"
A bump at her leg reminded her of Tink, and she picked the little dragon up and included her in a face sandwich between them, Stormy's grin wide and bright as she squished the minipet.
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:27 pm
dutyQuote: Text to <3:She is now climbing onto my shoulder to try and eat some of my hair. Quote: Text to <3:I think she would like a playmate very much.
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:33 pm
by any other name
The sheepish grin was cute. He felt his face flush with happiness as she leaned forward again, and Gale kept his eyes briefly open as she kissed him, tracing the sweep of her brow, the smooth lines of her face, the gentle expression before he closed his as well.
"Well...I suppose that's true," he said, once she'd pulled back, and a small laugh escaped him as Stormy lifted Tink into her arms, squishing them all together. Gale's expression softened as he looked at the pair of them, and his heart gave a little flutter in his chest.
"I was already falling for you, I think," he said, and then added softly, "I know that sounds cliche, but there was just...I couldn't not like you as much as I did by then. You were already a large part of my heart."
And you've stayed an even bigger part since then, he thought, as his fingers grazed over her cheek tenderly; sometimes he couldn't even quite fathom that she was with him, that she had chosen him over everyone else, and Candace had been right - what was more important to him?
His chest felt a little tight, but at least he'd come to a decision. His thumb brushed over his necklace again.
"Is that offer to move in with you still valid?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:05 pm
making amends
Eventually she spoke again.
"You know me, I like hugging and touching people and being touched, and it wasn't any different with friends. I gave Layla hugs between classes all the time, hello hugs and goodbye hugs and I hope you're doing okay hand squeezes. I did that to all my friends.
"I didn't think about what it looked like to other people."
She hesitated. It was years ago and had happened to a different Stormy-who-was-not-Stormy, but it still had happened.
"Rumors went around quick at my small high school. 'So they're dating?' 'Are they-?' 'Yeah, they're lesbians.' I didn't even know that was a thing," she admitted quietly. "People love who they love, right? Whatever words they use for it, it's still love. I didn't know before then that not everyone thought the same way—but I've always thought the best of people, huh?
"When things get tough, I just...get touchier. I need the contact of something that's alive, I need the comfort of communion. I hold your hand because I need to know you're there and will accept mine. But I tried to tone it back because even some of my friends were starting to wonder. 'Lina's weird already; maybe it's because she likes girls.' 'What if she tries to kiss me?'" Her voice had grown tight the more she spoke, and she took a deep breath to calm back down, though the tension didn't completely leave.
"I loved Layla as a second sister and thought the world of her, but she started getting the same attention. People approached her asking which gender kissed better, if she had ever even kissed a boy or just was butch from the start, if she knew how much she shamed God by her sins. I didn't blame her for getting a boyfriend. But then we started not meeting up at lunch, not hanging out as much, not texting as much. I barely saw her by the time the rumor stuff died away.
"I was...angry." Her expression wrinkled with frustration. "More than angry, more than sad. Resentful. The world wasn't supposed to work like that, I thought. Something's wrong. So one night I lied to my parents about going to a study group and went to the nearest and scariest place I could think of: this old abandoned house from the 40s fifteen minutes away, in a part of town that needed to get renovated but always had problems starting the project. I waited for shadows to come out. I wanted something to yell at. I did yell.
"That's when he came out of nowhere, with a flashlight in one hand and a duffle bag over his shoulder, asking me to keep it down because I was spooking the ghosts away."
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:22 pm
by any other name
Her smile faltered in surprise, and her lips parted for a moment before closing again. Then, blushing still, she nodded. Something warm began to expand in her chest, yet she still had to ask, "Are you sure?" while trying to mask the rising glee. She knew more than most how much this house meant to Gale and what leaving it behind entailed.
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:41 pm
making amends
He did know her, and he did know that she liked being physically affectionate, something Gale had always just associated with her. The times when she had drawn away from him had been times when she'd been so far out of her own self that it had taken away that sense of neediness, but it had come back, and he could always know how she was with the touch of her fingers, the squeeze of her hand in his.
Gale tried not to get angry at her story; after all, it was several years in the past and literally nothing could be done about it now, but that didn't stop the indignation at how she'd been treated to rise in his chest, making a scowl flit across his face. He hastily composed himself again, gently running a hand over her ankles.
A strange and serendipitous occurrence; if she hadn't gone to the house, maybe she never would have met Jack, maybe she never would have fallen for him, maybe he would have never come to Deus. A whole list, a whole series of maybes and what ifs and shoulda woulda coulda, but it didn't matter, not anymore.
"...and then?" Gale asked softly, his curiosity piqued, in spite of himself. "Did you get angry at him too?"
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:44 pm
by any other name
He'd been thinking about it every day since she had asked, trying to work through things inside of his head. His conversation with Candace had been necessary, crucial to figuring it out, and it all had boiled down to one thing she had said - which is more important to you?
That's easy, Gale had told her, Stormy, obviously. And it had been that simple.
His fingers slid up and down her cheek, down the side of her neck and back up again, curling against her ear, trickling down her jawline. For a few moments, he was silent, just quietly contemplating the girl in front of him and what she meant to him, and what this house meant to him.
A thumb brushed tenderly over her cheek.
"You're more important to me," he said softly. "I love my house, but I love you more, and that's what matters."
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