Alistair awoke in what appeared to be a stable, one that still smelled faintly of Mabari. And horse, of course, but that was more expected. He was also being poked in the bare back by itchy prickly straw. He jumped to his feet.
"Well, this is...horrifyingly familiar. Next I'll be swarmed by a large group of hounds, just you wait."
He did. Wait, that is. Nothing happened.
"O-okay then, maybe not. I haven't regressed to ten years old, have I?" He poked his own cheek, which was still fairly bristly, and glanced down at himself, half-clothed as he was in just the trousers he'd worn to sleep in. "Nope, never mind, still myself. How peculiar. I haven't dreamt of Redcliffe in years, but then this doesn't look much like Redcliffe, does it? It smells like Redcliffe. Hrm."
He wrinkled his nose and headed out of the stable, into what sort of looked like daylight, accidentally kicking some kind of book halfway across the stable floor as he did so. He muttered an apology to the thing and scooped it up, for lack of anything better to do with it.
"Well, this is...horrifyingly familiar. Next I'll be swarmed by a large group of hounds, just you wait."
He did. Wait, that is. Nothing happened.
"O-okay then, maybe not. I haven't regressed to ten years old, have I?" He poked his own cheek, which was still fairly bristly, and glanced down at himself, half-clothed as he was in just the trousers he'd worn to sleep in. "Nope, never mind, still myself. How peculiar. I haven't dreamt of Redcliffe in years, but then this doesn't look much like Redcliffe, does it? It smells like Redcliffe. Hrm."
He wrinkled his nose and headed out of the stable, into what sort of looked like daylight, accidentally kicking some kind of book halfway across the stable floor as he did so. He muttered an apology to the thing and scooped it up, for lack of anything better to do with it.
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Date: 2015-08-20 06:52 am (UTC)From:Neria moaned when pressed against the door, the warmth and weight of his body simply delicious against hers. She couldn't even remember how many nights she had dreamt with him, needed him during her search, waking up all alone and frustrated.
At the sound of the door closing behind them she started to pull his shirt off, eager and breathless, breaking their kisses only to remove the piece of clothing. She kissed his neck, sucking his pulsing point, nails running the planes of his chest softly. Her voice reverberated against his throat as she repeated "I missed you" almost like a mantra.
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Date: 2015-08-20 07:14 am (UTC)From:Alistair set her on the floor when she moved to tug off his shirt, lifting his arms so she could pull it off him. He leaned in quickly and kissed her again, a brief, sloppy thing before he turned and threw the bolt behind them. And then he was back, crowding into her, his hands pulling her flush against him, gripping her and lifting her again.
When she sucked at his neck, he shuddered, and suddenly none of this was enough, not the weight of her in his arms or the scrape of her nails against his chest. He needed her skin bare against his, needed the layers of cloth still between them gone. He needed, and he nearly tripped over his feet in his haste to make it to the bed.
He deposited her on the end of the bed, gentle despite his rush, and went to his knees in front of her.
"Maker, I missed you," he answered, the pads of his fingers caressing her face, his voice gravelly. He dragged calloused fingers down over her collarbones and slipped her robe off one shoulder, surging forward to kiss her skin there.
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Date: 2015-08-20 07:29 am (UTC)From:A trail of gooseflesh was left by his fingers over her collarbones. She exposed the curve of her neck, inviting him, her hand working to free that arm from the Orlesian robe; one thing she had to admit, though: that freaking misplaced underbust corset, part of Madame de Fer's robes, would look too damn good now.
Neria sighed with his kisses, hands caressing his shoulder blades aimlessly. She pressed her thighs together, missing the friction between their bodies now that she was sitting.
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Date: 2015-08-20 07:46 am (UTC)From:Abruptly, he felt the urge to bury his face in her hair and inhale her, as if by surrounding himself with her scent he could ground himself here, in the moment, make this true somehow, and lasting. It hit him then, the sudden fear that this was not real, could not be real. Meeting Neria in some version of the Fade, where different possible versions of his future had all congregated at once? That simply wasn't possible, was it?
He groaned, and his eyes suddenly felt hot, because damn him, she felt so real and he wanted her so badly. Please, please, he thought. He buried his face in her lap and stopped undressing her to wrap his arms tightly around her waist.
"Please tell me this isn't a dream," he said thickly, voice muffled somewhat.
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Date: 2015-08-20 08:04 am (UTC)From:She spoke with a soft voice, heart aching at his muffled plea. Her hands reached for his face cupping his jaw and tilting his head so she could lock her eyes on his. The woman smiled and kissed the tip of his nose.
"This is real." she caressed his cheek, taking one of his hands into hers and intertwining their fingers together, planting a kiss to each of his knuckles "This is definitely real. And we are about to make love, to be together again after a long time. I know the Fade usually doesn't brings nothing good but... it brought us together now, so it can't be that bad after, can it?"
And then she kissed him, shy at first, slowly coaxing his mouth to open for her. Biting his upper lip, she had no hurry on that kiss, only deep passion and an attempt to make things more credible.
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Date: 2015-08-20 08:18 am (UTC)From:Even the best of his dreams of her had never had this much detail behind them. Her smell, her warmth, the noises she made and the shape of her lips against his, all of it was right. No one, not a demon or his subconscious, could have copied the curve of her smile so exactly.
And with that realization, he felt a surge of irrational hope and happiness fill him. His lips opened beneath hers with a groan, slipping his tongue into her mouth, deepening the kiss, one hand coming up to fist in the fabric of her robe between her shoulder blades.
"Neria...love..." he moaned.
(OOC: okay I am a terrible person to bow out here, but I do have to go in to work in the morning and really had better get some sleep. shall we continue this tomorrow?)
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Date: 2015-08-20 12:24 pm (UTC)From:"I'm here vhenan." this came out of her mouth as a whispered whimper. She moved her arms and shoulders, sliding out of the robe with easy since Alistair had a hold of it, pressing her bare breasts against his chest. The skin to skin contact only made her seek for more, hands desperately fumbling to undo the laces of her heeled boots.
Neria hadn't lived thr past three years without her own share of new scars, most of them nothing more than satin lines over her skin, thanks to healing spells. And despite she and Alistair had seen plenty of each other's naked bodies along the years, the new marks made her feel... naked. Blushing even. With a grunt, she finally took her boots away. Soon, her arms were all over him again, nails scraping his back, kisses' muffled moanings escaping her mouth at every change at the kiss' angle, her need now aching between her legs.
The woman motioned backwards in the mattress, opening room for him to follow. She needed his weight, his grounding, safe weight above her.
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Date: 2015-08-20 08:42 pm (UTC)From:"Beautiful," he breathed, and then blushed, like he hadn't quite meant to say that. He met her next kiss eagerly, reaching to cup her breasts, run his thumbs over the pebbled peaks of her nipples. He followed her onto the bed, chasing contact with her mouth, her warmth, her body, settling himself between her thighs before he let out a noise of frustration, almost a growl, and reached down to fumble at the ties of his trousers.
His body, too, as he struggled to kick off smalls and trousers, showed the marks of years apart. But his new scars were much uglier, a testament to the absence of a certain mage with healing spells in his life. There were new nicks on his hands and wrists, a scar over one forearm, a long, mostly well-healed gash along one thigh. Most noticeable, though, was a ropy scar just below his heart, long-healed but still red and ugly, like a blade had just missed its target.
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Date: 2015-08-20 09:25 pm (UTC)From:"So... I was once this close of losing you?"
Her voice was low and thoughtful, her trembling fingers still romaing his chest.
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Date: 2015-08-21 02:22 am (UTC)From:When she touched the scar by his heart, his breath hitched and he stilled.
"Hurlock," he said quietly. "There was this recruit, and I stepped in between him and the blade, but I didn't get my shield up fast enough, and the damn thing managed to get its blade right in between the plates of my armor."
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Date: 2015-08-21 02:51 am (UTC)From:She rolled her hips against his again, the wet heat between her legs soaking her trousers, the only thing still keeping then apart. She stroked his erection, thumb circling the tip of his cock, her aching need increasing with the throbbing. They had been apart for so long that she wished things to last longer, but she was barely holding herself, green eyes totally engulfed by her desire.
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Date: 2015-08-21 03:02 am (UTC)From:"I hope you know I'll...I'll hold you...to that," he said, breathless, driven to distraction by her touch, almost past the point of being able to form coherent words.
He actually whimpered when her fingers closed around his cock, his fingers curling tight into the blankets.
"Neria, please," he begged, thrusting into the circle of her fingers. "I - I need..."
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Date: 2015-08-21 03:26 am (UTC)From:And before he could answer she was already crawling her way back to him, nails scrapping his inner thighs provocatively. Straddling his hips again, she coated him in her own arousal before sliding his hard cock inside her entrance, a low moaning escaping her mouth. Neria was still for some time, eyes closed, enjoying how perfectly he fit inside her, how his throbbing responded to her walls; her hands slightly trembling when she opened her eyes again, gazing at him and smiling. There was much she wished to say, but all she could think now was about moving.
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Date: 2015-08-21 04:06 am (UTC)From:HE caught her hands as soon as she was within arm's reach again and pressed a kiss to the back of one, then dropped them to his chest. He tried to hold very still as she sank down on him, thighs shaking with the effort, and he reached for her face, thumb brushing over the curve of her cheek, his breath coming in quiet pants while she adjusted.
That smile, though...he could have lost himself in her smile, and had, all those years before, admiring her from across camp, wanting her before he knew he could have her, fumbling over himself with perhaps more than his usual awkwardness just to hear her laugh despite the world ending around them. They had changed so much from a decade before; he liked to think they'd grown stronger, wiser, but what hadn't changed, what he didn't think would ever change, was how he felt for her. She was light and grace and strength, she was everything, and he was...
"I love you," he gasped, surging up to wrap his arms around her and pulling her tight to his chest. He lowered his mouth to hers and kissed her deeply, thrusting into her wet heat.
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Date: 2015-08-21 04:44 am (UTC)From:Neria straightened her back, meeting his thrusts with her hips, following his pace. Hands gripping his waist to keep her steady, nails slightly digging the flesh in half-moons. That was really her Alistair, his muscles rippling under her touch, his breathing escaping his mouth agape as their bodies melted into one. She never really understood what he had seen on her small frame, on her lack of social skills and knowledge regarding the world outside the Circle. Neria was sure, though, that she loved him before he noticed his own feelings about her; the way he supported her and allowed her to support him, how the protected her and allowed to be protected. Ten years after the Blight and they're were still together against anything the world threw at them, still the only one who had faith on her when she didn't.
She increased the pace, sinking deeper on his thrusts, hands begining to go numb with the approach of her peak, walls closing around him.
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Date: 2015-08-21 05:12 am (UTC)From:"Neria," he murmured, her name a prayer, a veneration. He said it again, and again, till it became a litany whispered into her skin, worshipped into the hollow of her throat.
She quivered around him, and he quickened the pace of this thrusts, more erratic now, and reached a hand between their bodies to part her folds and rub, gently, at her clit, and then,
"Come for me, my heart," he whispered.
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Date: 2015-08-21 05:33 am (UTC)From:Neria yelped, his calloused, familiar touch more than welcome. Her heart hammered inside her chest, against her ribs and the pulsing point on her neck; her peak erased the world around her for a brief second and then all sensations came crashing down at once. Alistair's heart against her own, their skins, melting, the heat around them.
Her walls clenched and fluttered around Alistair and she rested her forehead against his collarbones, body going softly limp, short and quick breaths.
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Date: 2015-08-21 05:47 am (UTC)From:His head arched back, whole body trembling, from his arms around her to his thighs under her. His arm about her waist tightened weakly, and he fought for breath.
When he could think again, even if only a very tiny bit, he let out a soft laugh and kissed her temple, then flopped backwards on the bed, drawing her down with him.
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Date: 2015-08-21 05:52 am (UTC)From:"Well..." another sigh "I missed this too."
Neria tilted her chin up, kissing his jaw repeatedly.
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Date: 2015-08-21 05:58 am (UTC)From:At her many kisses, he sort of...twitched, head jerking as she hit a particular spot under his chin.
"That tickles!" he protested, chuckling. He opened his eyes and reached to cup the back of her head with one large hand.
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Date: 2015-08-21 06:08 am (UTC)From:Neria smiled, wickedly, bright round eyes adding to the look. She kissed him at the press of his hand on the back of her neck, sliding to settle by his side. Her hands trailed his scars, old and new, feeling their touch under her fingerpads, humming with a calm bliss.
"I must be the luckiest woman alive."
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Date: 2015-08-21 06:19 am (UTC)From:When she settled beside him, he curved his arm around her waist and ran his hand up and down her side, the gesture soothing, gentle.
"Not half so lucky as me, my love," he said, nuzzling her head and inhaling her scent and dragging his lips along the pointed shell of her ear.
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Date: 2015-08-21 06:26 am (UTC)From:"Hurlock Alpha, the scar." she held his hand and placed it above the mark "Proving that is a very bad idea raid the Deep Roads with two mages, an archer and a scout and no proper vanguard. It had me pinned on the wall, Velanna wasn't nowhere near to heal me, poor Nate almost panicked with that much blood."
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Date: 2015-08-21 06:35 am (UTC)From:"I think the lesson to be learned here," he said finally, and his voice was raspy with emotion, "is that we clearly work much better together than apart."
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Date: 2015-08-21 06:45 am (UTC)From:Neria closed her eyes and sighed.
"I might not be able to have kids, vhenan." she waited for her words to sink in "I cried, I was devastated for a long time and I thought that was something I had to tell you for myself, not through a letter."
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