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 Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:07 am
Laughter cascaded from Yue, Jianyu's arms wrapping around her waist. She held on to him, her hands on his shoulders, as she giggled madly. It was startled laughter, as though she had been holding it back somewhere, and Jianyu had pulled it forth. Spinning with him, Yue looked up at the stars and watched them spin too, until Yu halted, but didn't let go. Her pink scales glowed around flushed skin, skin blessed by the sun and warm to the touch again. The tears she had shed earlier over his pain had left, and her eyes glittered with excitement. Yue was settled comfortably in his arms, leaning on him a little, because otherwise she would have kept stumbling, dizzy from her flight. As he brushed his fingers down the side of her face, she felt something tighten in her chest, and release very gradually. She had leaned up a little, on he toes, like he was the sun and she was a plant craving his sustenance. When he spoke, it broke her trance; she blushed even more furiously, if that was even possible.
She opened her mouth to make some comment, some joke at her expense, but couldn't find the words. She kept her arms looped around Jianyu, and looked up at him with all the trust she had ever known. Yue knew about the vastness of the world around them, but she had spent so long immersed in it, tugging at things, documenting their reactions. For once, instead of the bigger picture, Yue Lao was able to focus on the present. On Jianyu. She felt peace wash over her in waves, peace and the crushing weight of some emotion she couldn't name, because she had no reference for it.
Her eyes searched across Jianyu's face; at first, she seemed worried, and then... a smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, as if to ask her if it was alright to smile. "You would have come out on top even if I wasn't... you know. I only have a big heart for you, Yu," Yue laughed, "Though the other comments, I am familiar with." The idea that she had a big heart amused her. No one called her nice, really; well, she wasn't. She got underneath things, found out the parts of people they didn't want anyone to see. It was not a good way to make friends. And yet... with Jianyu, she legitimately cared for his well-being. She wanted him to be happy, regardless of the personal cost she might face. It was also rather funny that he found her hard to understand at times, since Yue was actually at her best and most coherent with Yu. She used the fewest riddles with him, compared to the others she harassed.
"Guilty as charged," Yue addressed the first two observations: flirting and being wild were definitely faults of hers. "Just like my heart is only big for you, if big at all... it's only good for you, too. I only feel..." Yue trailed off, biting her lip, looking like she wanted to laugh and hide at the same time. What was she trying to express? Jianyu was being so kind to her, and she was terribly drunk off his physical attention. If Jianyu had, at that time, told her to leap off a cliff into unknown waters... well, of course, she wouldn't have done it. Because she couldn't swim, and that would be the death of her. But for Yu? She would seriously consider it, and if it would... If it came down to her life or his, then she would jump. With every moment they spent together in the garden, Yue realized more and more just how deep the roots of her affection for him grew within her.
Yue's eyes widened, and she tightened her arms around Jianyu as he pressed his lips against her forehead. She could scarcely breath, and tried not to, as if inhaling or exhaling would shatter the touch. Yue cared so much about Jianyu that his one kiss may as well have been an injection of light: her heart spun, dizzy, inside her chest.
When Jianyu broke the kiss, pulled from her forehead, she looked up at him, an reached up with one hand. She had to stand up a little taller, to even reach him well, and brushed her fingertips along his jaw line, a mesmerized and dazed smile across her face. "Thank you for letting me," she murmured, "It turned out that... when you got lost, I got lost too. It's hard to train when you don't know where you are," Yue joked, though she had scarcely said it before her dizziness set in again, and she gave him her swaggering smile. She chewed her lip, and nestled against his chest for a moment, before looking back up at him again.
"Yu... thank you for helping me find out I have a thread, so that I can even consider being tangled..." She always felt so compelled to tell the truth around Jianyu, all the time. It would have been disconcerting, but she was still dazed from the kiss, unconcerned with the temperature and the house and the war. For now, even if just now, it was Jianyu and Yue Lao, stargazing in the garden. Maybe that would be enough.
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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:45 pm
”I don’t like making people lost.” Jianyu said softly, his hands resting lightly on Yue’s waist as she reached up, touching her hand to his face. Warm, gentle fingers flitted across his jaw, brushing against his chin before she dropped them again. He smiled down at her, his face half shadowed, half bathed in the silent moonlight that ran across both of them. It was soothing and calm in the garden, with just the two of them standing there, and Jianyu felt more at ease and more relaxed than he had in a long time. For the past several weeks he had been lost within his own thoughts and his own haze of pain, not willing to admit that it had been his own fault that things had gone badly between him and Bataar. In a way, they had both fallen out of their unorthodox relationship, but it had not been unpleasant. Far from it, despite Bataar's and his constant bickering. It had been...exhilarating. Exciting. He had been happy, for the most part. That was what he would miss.
Jianyu looked back at Yue for a moment, then moved around to stand behind her, keeping his arms wrapped around her waist. Resting his chin on the top of her head, Jianyu let his eyes drift back upwards, moving across the wide expanse of dark sky, touching each and every soft white light. "It's ironic,' he said softly, his voice barely above a whisper. "To think that losing someone makes me find my way again.
"And finding you, of course, silly girl." Jianyu added teasingly, pressing his face into Yue's hair momentarily before lifting his gaze. The inky blackness stretched over their heads, sprinkled with the stars that peeked through the wisps of cloud, the moon wide and nearly full. It was quiet. Peaceful. Jianyu felt himself relax and he felt some of his tension lift, felt the beginnings of his heart and mind healing slowly. It might take a few more nights of stargazing, but he was moving forward now, taking his steps carefully into the morning.
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