[ CLOSED ] the dawn is opening

[godshattering]

Who: Claude and various
When: September, October, November
Where: Cadens, Libertas, the Horizon
What: Catch all
Warnings: None currently, will add/mark as needed


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[theidlemaiden]

[ In spite of everything it's hard for her to believe that she'll be forgiven so easily. She knows herself. Intimately understands how much of a vindictive creature she could become if left unchecked. If they were her, she might not have in their shoes and she wouldn't have blamed them. But perhaps that's her self-destructive tendency rearing its head. It's the doubt still trying sow its seeds.

A soft noise of surprise flutters from the back of her throat taken aback by the feeling of Sylvain's lips meeting hers. But her body seems to know what to do, kissing him in return with more sweetness and emotion than she feels capable of expressing in that moment. Warmth rises to her cheeks, a product of being faintly aware that Claude's gaze is on them and at the seriousness of Sylvain's expression. But it's all of those things including their words about starting anew, starting over together that shields her from her corrosive thoughts. They make her heart feel lighter than it has in months.

Her gaze lingers on Sylvain her thumb ghosting across his skin before turning back towards Claude. Yearning weaves itself into the silence that settles between them as she regards him. She's shied away so many times in the last several months from showing signs of intimacy towards him, afraid of what it could unravel. But emboldened, she closes the space between them, pressing a kiss to his lips. It's brief but it's warm, filled with her promise to try and of what she says silently every time she kisses him: That she cares. That she always will.

When she pulls away she slips both of her arms over their shoulders to draw them close so their heads rest against one another's. This time her watery voice is lighter than before. Even in the face of her fear, it's laced with hope that begins to take root in her bones. ]

That's all I want. I don't want to be anywhere else.

[philancer]

And neither do we.

[ There’s no resistance in him when she pulls them all closer together. Which is what they all needed each other for in the first place. One of his arms winds its way around her waist, while the other tangles fingers with Claude’s.

There’s a smile on his lips as he watches them kiss, his eyes dark and heated and warm. He presses a kiss to the top of Hilda’s head before laying his cheek against it. ]

This is where we belong. Each of us.

[godshattering]

[ As Hilda turns to him, for once Claude doesn't immediately have something in mind to say. Maybe it's that they've all been emotionally wrought enough for a lifetime and then some from this conversation and everything leading up to it which leaves him at a loss, but not one he minds. For once it feels right to not have anything else to add. For this to be complete between the three of them as a solid foundation to build upon - to be together in it in a way which won't match anything from before, but will be better. He believes it.

He might have hesitated in the form of waiting, but Hilda doesn't. As she leans in there's just enough time for a smile to ghost over his lips before he returns that kiss with more unspoken behind it on his end, too; some of the urgency that used to be there in impressing all of what's unsaid might be gone, if only because there's time now they've never had to said it aloud. The same goes for Sylvain, he realizes, because all of those questions which whispered their way back throughout this will want their answers eventually.

But now as they lean together and he squeezes Sylvain's hand in his and rests against them both? There's nothing but contentment. ]

It is, without a single doubt, and together even more so.

[ A word he'll not tire of saying any time soon, and one that'll continue to be true to him. ]