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 Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:12 pm
He could not have been more tired.
It felt like forever. It felt like he had been away for a very, very long time, and as Aurostibite touched down, shifting painfully and slowly from his powered self back into Magiore, he wondered just how long it had been. Every part of him felt like it had been through the ringer; there were cuts and bruises all across his body, and each step was slow and unsteady as he made his way towards the front door of his home.
He'd lost his key. Magiore tried to open the door, but it was locked, and he leaned his forehead against it for a moment, his breath escaping him in a long, shaking rush.
Would she still be here? Would she still have waited for him? He'd disappeared without a word - not that it was his fault, not that he could have prevented it, but Magiore knew how hard it would have been if Durumi had simply vanished without a word. He would have gone crazy - and he had, in those cells, without her, desperate to know if she was all right, if she was safe.
He lifted a hand and knocked once on the door, leaning heavily against it.
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:52 pm
She had come rushing home, the minute Alistare and Lance had let her. Alistare had mentioned maybe someone looking like Auro being there, and she knew. She knew that he had to be. The time of the disappearance, the amount that had passed.
She hadn't stayed long in their apartment, leaving as soon as they allowed and mirror hopping her way back to his loft. She didn't think he would stop there, but she checked...just in case.
Then she mirror hopped back to home, exiting the large mirror she had placed in one of the many rooms, it was practically the size of the wall. She almost didn't hear the knock...
But she stumbled her way to the door, powering down to Durumi, tears forming in her eyes. Please. Please. Please. Please.
She prayed to whatever heavens there was that when she opened the door, it was Magiore. Not someone else.
She feared for if it was someone else.
The door swung open with all her might and he was there.
She fell to her knees and sobbed. "Magiore...."
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:14 pm
In the time it took for her to get to the door, Magiore wondered if she was at home at all. The silence that greeted him was terrifying, and his heart clattered terribly in his chest as he stood there, waiting, hoping, praying that she would appear in front of him.
He needed to see her. He needed to stand there and drink in the sight of her, to know that she was all right, that she was breathing and that she just existed at all, and she was the only thing in Magiore's world that made any sense whatsoever.
And then the door swung open, and she stood there, and his breath dragged out of him, sharp and uncertain, and Durumi's eyes were wide before she all but fell to the floor, tears streaking her face. Magiore staggered towards her, and collapsed to his knees, one arm wrapping around her, hand in her hair, and he'd buried his face against her, Magiore shuddering.
"Durumi," he whispered, and his lips found her ear, pressed a trembling kiss. "Durumi."
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 12:15 am
She couldn't stop the sobs, all releasing after her desperation, the slow crawl of no leads, of having no one to communicate with to find him. She had felt people leaving her, felt that she was alone. Even if that night she had been with Lance and the entourage of women that he had collected, for safety reasons.
She had barely known Quinn and Cass, but she was aware now of who they were, and that was good. But nothing filled the void of having her love one leave. Her heart gone for so long.
So when he came back, so when he was in front of her, it was too good to be true. He was injured, he was hurting. He had been through hell.
She felt his arms, felt the touch.
"You left, you left me." She sobbed, "I can't, you were gone. I couldn't sleep without you." She clung to him, "Wh...Why? What took you? What happened?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:07 am
He wasn't a crier, not usually; Magiore had always been restrained, controlled, keeping things as level as possible, holding onto that sense of self and that stubborn pride of his. It worked within the Negaverse, where he tried to be as unobtrusive as possible, following leads and keeping loyal - but not when it came to this, when it came to the woman he loved.
It felt like forever. It felt like he hadn't seen her in years, let alone days. Magiore clutched Durumi to him, heedless of his own injuries, and buried his face into her hair, trying to memorize the feel of her in his arms. She was real, and she felt real, and he was home; he wasn't in the cell anymore, wasn't trapped in that hell hole of a place, lost and confused and angry.
"I'm so sorry," he breathed, and his voice shook as his fingers did, Magiore unable to stop the trembling. "My love, my heart, I'm so sorry."
There were tears against the corners of his eyes; he blinked rapidly to dispel them.
"I was...taken," he managed to get out. "I was kidnapped."
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:52 pm
She clung to him, hoping that the tears would end.
But he was holding her so tenderly and she missed that so terribly, that the tears did not fade or disappear. They just stayed. Eventually through her sobbing, she realized how ridiculous she was being.
"It wasn't you. It wasn't you. I was so scared. Lance....Alistaire went missing too, we were looking every night for you. I was so worried. I asked Umber...and others."
But his confirmation that he had been kidnapped made her angry, so in the sobs, she finally quieted down.
The anger started to settle in.
"Who." She asked, pulling back.
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2015 8:12 pm
He just wanted to sweep her away and take her elsewhere, to a place no one would be able to find them. Safe and sound, away from the rest of the world, he wished that this damned world was not trying so hard to take them away from each other. They had fought long and hard for what they had; he did not want to lose it.
Magiore leaned close and kissed Durumi's forehead, and he knew vaguely who she was speaking of, though not well.
"There were many of us," he said quietly. "I didn't recognize all, just one or two offhanded, none close to me." Not that there were even any close to him, anyway, other than Durumi and Kodi, and Kodi was not a senshi nor a Negaverse agent. "But there were many. We were locked in cells together."
He heard the anger in her voice, and Magiore's grip tightened, just a little more.
"I don't know," he said, voice soft. "But it was terrifying."
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:39 pm
All of Magiore's feelings were mirrored in Mintakas. As if the war wasn't hard enough, why couldn't she be happy with the man she loved? Why was it hard to want, for once, just to have it be easy?
No path was ever easy though.
"How many?" She hissed, "How could so many powered get taken like that? What sort of power could do that?"
She reached out and even if he described the worse, she still held him as tenderly as she could.
But underneath it all, was a thick rage. Hatred for whoever took him.
"What happened?" she looked around them..."Wait no, tell me...after I make you some tea!" She pulled him up, "I will make your favorite. We'll get you changed." She hissed, "Are you hungry? did they feed you?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:32 pm
He exhaled a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding until now.
"Many, enough to fill several cells," Magiore said. "We were chained up, and if we summoned our weapons or tried to escape, we were...blown up. They wanted us tame and docile for their bidding." And if Durumi looked, she would be able to see the marks of the cuff around his neck, dark bruises lining his throat and part of his collarbone.
He needed her to stay close. He needed to feel the warmth of her arms around him, needed the contact, because Magiore was utterly lost without it. He had drowned in the cage, desperate and alone, and now he was here with the woman he loved, with the one person who could soothe the ache in his heart.
He followed obediently as she pulled him up, unsteady on his feet and swaying slightly, a wince passing across Magiore's face.
"Food and tea would be good," he said quietly. "But wait, please, Rumi, I need - "
And he caught her face in his hand, palm a little rough and bruised against her cheek, but he kissed her anyway, because it had been so long and he'd missed her so much it had been like a physical pain. It was a gentle, soft thing, not demanding, but still full of a tenderness and love that he needed.
"I love you," Magiore said, when he pulled away, and his lips skimmed over her forehead. "I missed you so much, I thought I would die without ever getting to see you again."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 6:16 pm
It was hard for her to pretend everything was okay and normal. To pretend that she could handle the news of SOMEONE taking Auro and Tantalus. Who else had they taken?
Who else could have been taken? did it matter? Magiore was hurt, battered, damaged, scarred.
She wanted to kill whoever did this, and it was a thought that scared her. She had never been so violent before, so easy to fall into anger. Was this because of her switch to the dark mirrors? Was chaos too much for her?
Or was her heart weakened now.
She saw under his clothing, the marks from what looked like a collar and she felt the anger rise all over again.
She turned to hold him, but he was catching her face. She stiffened as his lips met hers before relaxing and letting the anger fade. It was easily replaced with love and sadness. Her kiss would be soft, because he needed her to be soft now. Soft to deal with the harshness he had endured.
"Come with me...." She urged, gently leading him to the kitchen. "Let me love you Magiore. Let me welcome you home. Let me take care of you, my heart."
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:52 am
Later she would be able to see the full extent of all of his bruises and scars, but that was for later, and not now, when he needed her so much. Magiore knew she was angry, but he wanted to quell that as much as possible right now, simply let her feel the warmth and reassurance of his presence so that he could do the same with hers.
He pressed one last kiss to her cheek and then let his hand fall away, Magiore twining his fingers through Durumi's. Obediently, he followed after her wincing a little at the effort of simply walking - but at the same time, his eyes traced the lines of their house, basking in the familiarity of it.
This was his home. He was home.
"What did you do, while I was gone?" he asked, wondering if he even wanted to know the answer, but needing it all the same. His fingers tightened around hers, because now he was anxious that she would disappear from his sight again, and he couldn't take that.
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:12 pm
She stayed closer to him, running her hand through his fingers. It was hard to think of letting him go, now that he was back. Letting go was like asking for him to be taken again, to be opened to being left alone again. She wasn't sure if she could handle it again. He was, in short, her happiness.
"I hunted." She didn't look at him. "Searched for answers. Barely slept, didn't eat much. I asked friends, and I asked enemies. Most of my time was looking for you." She still didn't look at him.
"There was not even a whisper of what happened to you. I was worried...that I would never find you again. That you just....disappear." That he had purified and never told her, that he died and couldn't tell her.
That he had left because...she wasn't enough.
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 7:51 am
He loved her. Sometimes it was almost dizzying with how much he did, especially since he had tried so hard not to let his feelings dictate his life; how he had tried to pretend that each and every meeting of theirs did not make him wish to see her more, how her kindness and patience and gentleness had eventually given way to simple, pure love. He wanted to keep her safe more than anything else in the world, wanted nothing more than her own happiness. Durumi came above the Negaverse, and somewhere in the back of his mind, he knew that if it came down to it, he would choose her. The thought was a little frightening, but it was there, and that was it.
Magiore's fingers toyed with hers, because he knew that she would let go soon enough to help make tea, but for now, he kept ahold of them. Her heartache made his own chest tighten, and he drew her hand up to his lips, pressed a soft kiss to her knuckles.
"I'm so sorry," he said roughly, his throat feeling dryly. "I'm so sorry, Durumi, I didn't - I was walking back, and I was coming home to you when they took me, and I couldn't - I couldn't tell you what had happened, I was just stuck in that awful place - "
They'd reached the kitchen but Magiore stopped abruptly and stepped in front of Durumi, his hand leaving hers only so that he could take her arms in his hands, hold her tight.
"I will never leave you," he said, and his eyes blazed with a sort of heavy determination that was rarely seen in him, even as Aurostibite. But he desperately needed her to understand, to believe him. "I promise you this, Durumi, I will never, ever leave you unless it's something like this, unless I can't control it."
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:25 pm
She couldn't accept his apology because, in truth, it wasn't his to give. He had been taken. Stolen. It was not his fault for that. It was not his fault for her trust issues, or that she had been hurt before. It wasn't his fault that he had been everything she needed and now when it came down to it, she was going to help in return.
"Tea." She urged, to calm them both down. Something between them.
"I know. I know you wouldn't. I know you can't." She closed her eyes. "We are so much more then we were in the future, and we are burning so much harder then we were when we started. I waited for you, and you were always looking for me. I know...I know you wouldn't leave me, unless something happened, like this. I know this."
But she heaved a breath, "But I can't stop being scared. Stop being worried. To have both you and Tantalus missing? Lance and I searched every night. Every night since you both disappeared and neither of heard a thing. I talked to Umber, he hadn't heard. You just vanished, and to be honest? It was too easy. Too easy to be taken." She let her hands fall.
"What else do I have to fear?"
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:40 pm
He was so very afraid of losing her, of losing this precious life that they had together. The thought of Durumi, or Mintaka, becoming injured or lost to him was almost unbearable, a physical ache in Magiore's chest as he looked at her. She was the most wonderful thing that he had ever been able to have in his life, and he knew he would not be able to survive without her, at least not well.
Magiore took a deep, calming breath.
"Tea," he repeated, and exhaled. She was right. She had waited for him, and he had pushed and pushed to keep her away, trying to pretend that it hadn't mattered. Magiore had never intended to fall in love with her, had never meant to keep her as close as he did inside of his heart, and now, here he was, with this precious, wonderful relationship that he couldn't possibly lose.
His hand lifted, stroked the side of her face, fingers trailing over her cheek.
"I wish you weren't in such pain," Magiore said softly, eyes filled with the agony of having caused it. "I'm afraid too; the thought of losing you, I just..." He took another breath. His fingers found her hair, swept softly through it, tender gestures.
"I will make things right, I will protect us," he said firmly. "I will not let them take anything from us again."
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