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Happiness I've Known; 5/23 - Night - (Frank/Rachel)
Topic Started: Jan 10 2014, 10:17 PM (370 Views)
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Why torture yourself when life will do it for you?
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That part - the part Frank always seemed determined to find, the one that said it couldn't last, no matter what they wanted, what she wanted - she wasn't listening to that part right now. Didn't want to hear it, didn't want to think about it. Maybe that was stupid, but she'd been stupid before and this didn't feel stupid.

It felt real. More real than a former mercenary, former not-quite-hero, former whole lot of things knew she had any business wanting or asking for, much less expecting. Did it anyway, because those words, the look on Frank's face, they were like a light shining into a dark place somewhere inside her chest.

He loved her and she believed him and he didn't have to ask her to remember that, because it wasn't something she'd never forget. Not the words or the way he said them or the way they made her feel. So she'd take those and she'd keep them and the rest, well, he could keep saying that, too, if he wanted. Like he actually thought she might listen, especially right now.

But she wasn't, even if this once they made her smile, roll her eyes, give him a look that should've told him just exactly how much she wasn't listening, instead of pissing her off. And, also for once, Frank didn't argue, didn't huff at her about her seeing things different later or crazy circumstances and she'd change her mind when things weren't like they were. Like her whole life hadn't been one set of crazy circumstances after another. Just smiled back like maybe he was listening to her a little this time. Believing her a little.

He might as well, because she loved him, too. Frank Payne, or Frank Schlichting, or whatever he wanted to call himself (though she liked the one she actually had a chance of being able to spell a little better). It wasn't gonna change. Not now, not later. Even if she wasn't exactly smart she wasn't stupid, either. At least not stupid enough she could fool herself into thinking she felt something she didn't. Or that she couldn't see something like this, the way she felt about him and the way he made her feel, for the special thing it was.

So whatever he did or decided to do and no matter how crazy he decided she was, it wasn't something that was gonna change. And that was that.

Yeah, and there came the look she'd expected. Except Frank was still smiling anyway and pulling her in closer and still not looking like he was really gonna argue with her. Like maybe he was gonna just let her say it and maybe, just maybe, believe that a little for once, too, however doubtful he was trying to look.

“You’re pretty damn crazy, Babe.” Yeah, well, he should try something she hadn't heard before a few hundred times or more if he wanted her to listen to that, either, so he might as well get used to it. And it did earn him a poke to his broad, stubborn chest for his trouble.

Then he had her hand wrapped up in his, though, and she smiled and let him keep it if that's what he wanted. “I’d like nothing better,” he told her, tugging her up a little. Didn't take much urging, since she was thinking of heading there anyway. Where she could kiss him, or he could kiss her, or they could kiss each other because it probably didn't matter who started it.

Easy and sweet. Electric, scattering the whole rest of the world away again as she wrapped her leg over his again to get a little closer. Or at least a little different angle. Did he even know what he could do to her with just a kiss?

Would he even believe her if she told him?

"Me, too," Rachel agreed as she pulled back just a little, looking down at his face. Wanted a whole future of being able to do that, this, and let it stop at that. Without any of the usual buts or ifs or reminding herself that girls like her didn't get to want that. Did it anyway, along with all the things that went with it for people who actually did get to want that and maybe she'd figure out how to put those into words someday soon, too, if they were gonna do this. All of this.

For now, though, she laced her fingers with his and kissed him again and let that stand in for all the other things she'd figure out how how to say better later.
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There you go again, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn.
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Yeah, turned out he would walk that line.

Turned out, when it came to it, that when she was here, when she was touching him, telling him she loved him, whatever he might have to say about, and most of all when she had that look in her eyes, and those green eyes turned to him, there wasn’t any kind of way to do anything but point his feet down that road (as it were) and go along with it.

Not without a token protest, though. She was pretty damn crazy after all. But that might as well have been a caress this time, instead of an accusation. She was crazy, and she was perfect, and he loved her. Even if he couldn’t tell her the second part out loud - not in so many words - since thirty to one it’d only encourage her to do even more insane things.

But he could catch up her finger after she’d jabbed in into his chest to try to emphasize her point, and keep hold of it, and tell the gorgeous smile on her beautiful face the truth, which was that there wasn’t a single thing in the world that he’d like better than that.

Getting used to the idea that she loved him, and that she meant to keep on doing that. Yeah, goddammit. He’d like that.

And right now, as he pulled her up to his face, or helped her go that way, whichever it was, for once there wasn’t any doubt in Frank Payne’s mind that he was happy, which seemed like maybe it could prove that it was the right thing too. Who really knew though? But it felt like it was, when the world fell away to be just the fact of kissing Rachel. It was the sweetness in her lips, the press of her finger as it curled around his, and the warmth in her body as she pressed in closer over his.

Well, actually, that last one might have also been the return of a whole other kind of good feeling - one that was joined with the first, at least when it was Rachel, but not really the same thing at all.

“Me, too," Rachel agreed as she pulled back just a little, letting him look at her and greet her look with a smile that wouldn’t (and hadn’t) had any damn place on his face at all if it hadn’t been for her. The one that meant love, and the one that meant happy, and the one that still couldn’t quite believe that both of those things got to get put together for him, but wasn’t going to let him free right now to fuck that up like he did most things.

Besides, there was something else he needed to point out to her now, even if it would have been pretty damn concerning if she hadn’t already noticed, the way she was lying. “Guess it wasn’t that long a wait after all,” he informed her with a more suggestive smile, then shut right back up again, fingers tangling themselves up with hers, and let her kiss it right off his face, and go from there wherever the hell she wanted to go.

If this was the kind of happiness you got for taking that walk they’d agreed to, then yeah. Didn’t want to do anything but keep putting one foot in front of the other with Rachel for the rest of his life.


[Fin. We'll see at least Frank, and probably both of them, the next morning in All By Myself]
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