Down the blood red road (completed)

[Arabella Darkhold]

Arabella had started to say something before he had caught her drawing her in, melting away any reserve that was there. This was her Muadie, at long last all hers and no one else could claim him. She kissed him back with equal passion her arms moving to encircle his neck she could feel his heat rising.

The fire demon was inside and he was dancing a storm, Arabella slipped over and slid onto his lap, keeping him close always. Oh Maudie she whispered through their bond You've no idea how much I missed you, missed this, missed us. It was never really anyone else, I was too foolish and proud to realize that without you." She stopped to pull back to look into those eyes so that he could see this sincerity this commitment to him, to them, "I don't have life, or spark, or a soul. You're my soul and I waited for you" She smiled then again.

Reach over and touching his face, "Don't let me leave you ever again, ok?"

[member="Muad Dib"]

 

[Muad Dib]

Deal. He grinned with his arms around her. This was the moment he had waited for, when everything was right and the galaxy all around them mattered not. They were the center of the universe. And Arabella was his center. Arms tightened around her waist anchoring her in his lap as he leaned forward and kissed her nose teasingly.

If you were proud and foolish, he whispered through their bond, then I was stubborn and willingly ignorant of what was right in front of me for too long. But not anymore. Before he could move again to kiss her a waitress walked forward. "Can I take your order?"

 

[Arabella Darkhold]

Arabella heard the waitress and with a small wave of her hand she dismissed her they would eat soon enough but right now she wanted just to be a part of Muadie to say the words they had longed to say, to touch, and know the sensations that they each created within each other.

To take the bond to a level that would hold their lives at its heart, should one die the other would follow. Maudie, the runes upon our arms have you ever figured them out?" She held up her arm, looking at them the time in the temple, that time when they should have seen it, what was really being told to them within the old temple.

Her thumbs rubbed the back of his neck, haunt me my Maudie, drive me wild if you must but never leave me alone in the darkness where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my love, I cannot live without you. The depths of her love for him revealed through her words of devotion. She smiled as she leaned over and kissed her the bond flourished as she pushed through it wrapping it around her essence, her life if he died so would she.

[member="Muad Dib"]

 

[Muad Dib]

A grin as Arabella sent the waitress away. It was what he was about to do but she beat him to it. Chuckling he too looked at her arm in contemplation, a single finger lightly tracing the silkiness of her skin. I never did. Maybe we should find out one day. He felt a shiver as she caressed the nape of his neck. A growling sound emanated from him almost as a wild beast's purr.

He listened as her words and emotions poured out through their bond one with another. At another time, in the past, the revealing of such emotion would have startled and frightened him. But not today. He had plenty of time to work out exactly what he wanted, facing his own demons and her declaration instead warmed a part of him that he once had denied existence. His heart.

Kissing her back not in a soft and gentle way but a possessive way he physically mirrored her affections. After but a few minutes he pulled back gently, chest heaving as the fire burned brighter within and showing in his eyes.

"I loved you the moment I first saw you. And my love has only deepened since. Apart, we could not abide separation. But together I fear we will never be cast asunder. And it is a fear I revel in. Together we will be one and separated we will never be parted again. I have you in my heart and in my mind. Whatever I may be, whatever I may become, I will now and forever be your monster. And if the veil of death attempts to take you from me ... well, It won't be the first time I have brought you back. And as long as fire burns in me, I will refuse to be extinguished for my love for you is strong enough to cast off the shackles of the afterlife."

[member="Arabella Darkhold"]

 

[Arabella Darkhold]

[member="Muad Dib"]

"Then it is done my Maudie, consume me with the flames let it dance around us and be the beacon that lets the galaxy know that on this night in this place the awakenings of a passion as grand as written of old has been born" She stroked his cheek.

"yours, always, forever" she whispered kissing him lightly trailing them along his jawline a necklace of kisses that felt the heat in his skin the fire demon was raging and wanting to play, Arabella the quencher.

"I love you" the words hung upon the heavy air around them, "burn the words into my heart" she taunted and yet begged him. His control was that he could burn and leave her untouched, her skin to his, their minds one.

"do it"

 

[Muad Dib]

Closing his eyes he let her words become entangled with what her lips were doing. Testaments of her love that were working in tandem. He loved it. And he loved her. His eyes burned brighter as he captured her lips with his. He felt the flames of her passion mingling with his and knew that if he so thought, he could set this world afire thanks to the love burning within.

His arm pulled her close while his right hand lightly brushed the wet strands back from her forehead. Looking into her eyes he felt home, not a place but an idea. Thoughts of what a home could mean. Stability, purpose, an anchor, someone to share it with, even the possibility of children ( way down the line) grew in him and seeped down the bond they shared.

But even with the frightening thoughts of becoming domesticated, in a sense, it didn't shake the knowledge that she was his, and he was hers.

"I love you Arabella."

[member="Arabella Darkhold"]

 

[Arabella Darkhold]

"And I you Muad"

They sealed the bond with a kiss one that lasted through many breaths, through the entangling of their lives to one another. There was so much more to know so much for them to day, and one day who knew maybe there was a house with a picket fence but that was a long time away.


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