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Till Death Do Us Part

Summary: Griffin is celebrating her wedding and the happiness she and Faragonda bring each other when an interruption reminds her why Faragonda wasn't her first choice for a spouse. AU.

Look at that! A prompt that I've kept relatively short. And I managed to post it before the end of the year. Congratulations are definitely in order!

Petals rained from the white and blue lilacs in Faragonda's hair with every step. She twirled around with ease despite the midnight blue fabric clinging to her legs and forming heavy curls around her ankles.

She’d convinced Griffin to be the one in white the same way she’d convinced her to be her bride in the first place – with adoring looks, soft but deliberate touch and irresistible kisses. A ton of them.

The smile on her lips was brilliant, the little laugh lines around only adding a delicate charm. Griffin could not tear her eyes away from the most precious sight. Being her wife made the happiness on Faragonda's lips brighter, sweeter. She couldn't help but lean in to kiss her, the gazes of their guests fading from her mind to leave room only for Faragonda's heartbeat echoing through her own rib cage.

Metal clinking against glass stole all the breath from her. The sound rang through her bones painfully and her teeth clashed with Faragonda’s. They were forced to pull away.

Her face twisted in a grimace as her lungs fought through the faint scent of singed air enveloping her – like her life had caught fire. Like an invisible smokescreen it irritated her throat and stung at her eyes. The quiet spilled out of her mind and washed over the celebration. Her heels screeched jarringly against the tiles as she turned.

The familiar face greeted her, as expected. He was dressed in his finest suit, not a hair out of place. His composure was like a hard, unmoved rock – something to ground her when she’d been by his side, something to bury her when she was staring at him from across the room, her body failing to be a shield for the frail happiness she shared with Faragonda.

Sylvia's steps echoed behind her, and her own mother's did, too. They'd waited for decades for their daughters to get together. They wouldn't let the wedding be ruined now.

She only had eyes for the freezing, glacial blue of his own. The warm touch at her wrist was searing. A hiss tore from deep in her chest, her lungs staggering, fighting to draw in a breath, bruising against the edges of his piercing gaze.

She had not heard a single word from her wedding ceremony, except for those coming from Faragonda's lips. Only later, dancing in the arms of her new bride, her heart had stopped pounding for him and she’d forgotten the name that had almost been on the wedding invitations instead of Faragonda's, the name stuck in her mouth, tucked away under her tongue, the sound of it poison to her very life.

"Valtor," Faragonda's calm voice cut through the tension inside her, her teeth sinking in her lip to close the gap opening in her chest and threatening to tear her in half.

She'd expected him, too. Unlike Griffin she hadn't let her guard down just because he hadn't interrupted their vows. He could still uproot the future they'd promised each other without wanting her back even for a second. The cruelty of it suited him. It suited her too.

"Mrs Sylvane," Valtor acknowledged Faragonda with a mocking bow of his head. "I am not here to infringe on the happiest occasion," his gaze shot over her shoulder to where Sylvia and Emalyn had to be standing behind them like a guard ready to attack. "I've come to make a toast."

Griffin squeezed Faragonda's hand. A silent plea to steer them clear of the catastrophe descending upon them. She herself was stuck to the spot, transfixed – just as she always was in his presence.

A smirk flashed across Valtor's face, dangerous, to be completely ignored by Faragonda. Her stoic stance appeared more tortured than defiant.

Valtor raised the champagne flute in his hand, always one for theatrics.

"One day when this all will be but a bitter, tainted memory, I want you to remember that you are not alone. Griffin has made promises before, to many different people. And she broke them all like she does every time. It's just her nature to be inconsiderate, deceitful and selfish, and to leave behind those that would give life and limb for her." His gaze moved to the people behind them once again. "Don't take my word for it. All you have to do is ask Mrs. Sylvane."

Griffin shook, shivers rocking her whole at the knowledge that her mother's heart would have cracked by now if it'd been made of stone. And it was not. How much more could she force it to bear?

"I am not alone," Faragonda was unmoved, her hands, clasping Griffin's between them, cocooned her in unshakable security. "Griffin's flaws do not bother me. She's made mistakes. We all have," she raised her chin. "Unless you'd admit that your attempt to kill her was completely remorseless as well as deranged?"

Cutting her brakes had been too banal to be him. It had also been too flawlessly executed to be anyone else.

Valtor grinned, unbothered. "Like I said, there's a long list of parties that would want payback."

"I wouldn't know," Faragonda responded to his smugness in kind. She brought Griffin's hand up to her chest, holding it directly above her heart. "She's my wife and I would never do anything to hurt her. I promised that I will love her in good and in bad, and whatever she does, won't change that."

Griffin's throat closed. Her fingers went limp between Faragonda's, her heart struggling to beat in halves, her lungs running on empty.

Valtor caught her eye, suspending her in a moment between two waves of panic only to throw her in the deep, "Well, that's a relief."

His tongue shaped every word carefully – a blade in her vulnerable flesh. If she could look away, down to her dress, it would be running red with her blood.

"Isn't it, Griffin?"

Her blood was on his lips – he would lick it slowly and savor it and she would still kiss him right after. But the very image of her fingers turning red where Faragonda cut herself on her edges made her stomach turn.

Her hand dropped from Faragonda's like a sinking stone tied around a drowning man’s neck. The ring she’d put on Faragonda’s finger was the noose and being the devoted, faithful wife that she was, Faragonda would never cut it loose.

She wasn’t Valtor.

[getsuruito]

//i just felt the need to share these wonderful doodles i or my gf had commissioned by dailyarturia over the year. beautiful really.

[hennessystevens-udaku]

Happy Birthday, Daka

Warnings: This is a tear-jerker, y’all. Please grab some tissues before reading.

Sunlight shined bright into the shared bedroom of the couple’s condo. It’s occupants slept peacefully, their bodies still intertwined from the previous night’s activities. Someone just had to have some birthday sex as soon as the clock struck Midnight.

“Like we always do it this time, I go for mine I got to shine, now throw your hands up in the skyyyy..”

The sounds of Kanye West and T-Pain pulled the young woman from her slumber as her usual 9:45 am alarm went off. She rose with a stretch, a sly smile creeping across her face as she stared back at the sleeping man. Today was her best friend’s birthday and she had an entire itinerary of things planned out for his enjoyment.

“Wake up Fathead!” she yelled, jumping up and down on the bed beside him. He groaned in protest, rolling over on his stomach pulling the pillow over his head. This had become their yearly tradition. Whenever their birthdays rolled around, they made it their mission to give the birthday girl or boy the most obnoxious wake up call ever. She almost always won.

“Erik N’Jadaka Stevens-Udaku! Wake yo black ass up!” she exclaims, repeatedly hitting him over the head with her pillow.

“Shyyyyy,” he whined into the mattress. “It’s too early for all this.”

“Fine. I’ll go to iHop by myself,” she teased as she sauntered into the bathroom. He perked up at that.

“Well why didn’t you just say that, Princess? You know a nigga loves pancakes.” He rose from the bed with a few caveman-like grunts, as he shuffled into the bathroom behind her. They stood in comfortable silence as they completed their morning rituals, both of them making silly faces in the mirror as they brushed their teeth.

“Don’t take too long old man,” she called over her shoulder as she made her way to her closet to choose her outfit for the day.

“Whatever lil girl, I’m only 37.”

“Yeah, and in my eyes, that’s an old geezer,” she teased. He gave her a pointed look before closing the bathroom door in her face. He knew that this was only the beginning of her jokes and needed a few moments to mentally prepare for the laughs he knew they were about to share. While he showered, she pulled down two black and gold boxes and stuffed them in her messenger bag. She then grabbed the stack of worn letters and made sure that they were tucked neatly into the pocket on the inside of the bag. Unbeknownst to him, she had done some research and found something that would make this birthday one that he wouldn’t soon forget.

“Hurry up! My stomach is touching my back,” she complained outside of the bathroom door. Though she was the most feminine of the two, he was a diva when it came to getting dressed to go out. There was a brief moment of shuffling before he finally emerged, dressed in a white t-shirt, blue jeans that were ripped at the knee and a pair of black and white Jordan 12s.

“I could’ve sworn it was my day. Why you rushing me, shawty?”

“Because we’ve got places to be and you taking longer than a bitch heading to a dick appointment.”

“Well excuse me, your highness,” he grumbled as he slipped his Cuban link around his neck. “I see you tryna match my fly or whatever. You just gotta remind everybody know the Queen Bee is, huh?” he taunted as his eyes roamed over her curvy physique dressed in an outfit similar to his.

“Whatever nigga. Let’s go before I die of starvation,” she quipped as she made her way outside. He followed with a shake of his head and a loud barking laugh. Today was gonna be one for the books.

“Do you want your first gift now or later?” she asked as he finished his fourth short stack of pancakes.

“Now please,” he mumbled, flashing his perfect pearly whites. She smiled, reaching into the pocket of her messenger bag. She pulled out the smaller black and gold box and sat it in front of him. He wasted no time tearing open the box, revealing a set of 24-karat gold bottom grillz with a Cuban link accent.

“Yo, this shit is flames! Thank you, Princess.”

“I guess you’re welcome or whatever,” she replied with a smirk. He quickly removed his bottom caps, replacing them with the grill. He smiled and ran his tongue over the metal, eliciting a low groan from her.

“Hey, stop that. We’re in public.” He smirked, flicking his tongue a few more times before stopping completely.

“Nasty ass,” she grumbled.

“I don’t hear you complaining when ya pussy in my mouth.”

“Fuck you!” “After breakfast, ma.”

--

The rest of the day played out like a movie. After breakfast the pair went to the arcade and then shopping, spending copious amounts of money on one another. That was one of the traits about Erik that she loved and hated. He had been through so much in his life that he never wanted to be the center of attention. He would always find a way to do or buy something for her on his birthday. Just a token of his appreciation, he would say.

“Where we headed princess?” he asked as she drove near the outskirts of town.

“You’ll find out soon,” she replied as she gripped the steering wheel tighter. She was nervous about how he would react when they reached their destination and could only hope the she was doing the right thing. They drove for about 30 minutes before they reached St. Augustine Cemetery.

“A cemetery?” he asked in confusion. It’s now or never Shy.

“Y-Yeah,” she stuttered. “I did a little research and found somethings I figured you’d want to see. If you don’t want to, tell me now and we can go home.” He searched her face, noting the seriousness of her tone. They sat in silence before he spoke again.

“What’s that?” he asked, gesturing to the black box in her bag. She hesitated before pulling it out and sitting it in his lap. She watched as his fingers slowly traced the box before he removed the lid and peered inside.

“How did you..”

“It wasn’t easy, but I called every prison in California to see if any of them had any records of a Sylvia Stevens. I finally found one just outside of Oakland. I went by and picked up everything she had in her possession when she died.” A lone tear fell down his cheek as he pulled out various items. There were photos of him as a baby, pictures of them when he and N’Jobu would come to visit, and a necklace with a ring, similar to the one that he wore around his neck in honor of his late father. They sat in silence as he immersed himself in the memories of his late mother.

“These were there too,” she said as she pulled out the stack of envelopes. His hands trembled as he held the letters, each one addressed to him.

“S-She responded,” he said in a whisper. “I was so angry because I wrote her every chance I got, but never received a response. I thought she forgot about me, but she responded to every one.”

“Do you want to get out?”

“Yeah.”

The pair made the short journey up the hill before stopping at a large oak tree.

“She didn’t have a headstone, so I bought one,” Hennessy confessed. Erik was silent as he gazed over the sight when his mother laid. His hand shakily reached out and touched the granite headstone.

“I miss you Mama,” was all he said before he fell to his knees, tears falling down his cheeks in streams. “I hope you can see me up there. I hope I’m making you proud. I’ve been so lost without you, yet you’ve been here this whole time. I wish you were here to see your grandchildren. They’re the most precious little things ever. Your daughter-in-laws are amazing too. I swear I don’t know where I would be without them.” Hennessy walked up behind him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

“Thank you, Shy. This means more to me than you’ll ever know,” he said as he wiped his tears on his shirt.

“I was nervous about bringing you here. I didn’t know how you would feel having to relive that pain again.” “Thank you, Princess. Now that I know where she is, I can finally get some closure. This was the best birthday gift ever.” The two shared a passionate kiss before sitting down under the oak tree. They sat for hours as Erik told the story of how he went to Wakanda and how he came to have 9 wives to the headstone as though her mother-in-law was right there. They finally headed back to the car when night fell, not wanting to be caught in a cemetery after dark. They spent the rest of the night in her greenhouse, getting high and reading the letters that Sylvia wrote to her son while she was incarcerated.

“I love you, Princess.” “I love you too, Daka. Happy birthday.”

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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. —Anaïs Nin

All great and precious things are lonely. —John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. —Tom Wolfe

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. —Mother Teresa

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. —Joss Whedon

If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company. —Jean-Paul Sartre

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. —Thomas Wolfe

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Yes, there is joy, fulfillment, and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. —Sylvia Plath

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning. —Haruki Murakami

Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain….There was never a place for me in the scheme of things….I had become a living fantasy on a theme in dark, endless dirges… However, I made another world, and real men would enter it and they would never really get hurt at all in the vivid, unreal laws of the dream. I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime. —Dennis Nilsen

Online communities are an expression of loneliness. —Joanne Harris

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over. —Audrey Hepburn

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Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. —Anne Hathaway

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. —Dag Hammarskjold

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. —Jodi Picoult

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves, it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. —Joseph Conrad

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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony. —Douglas Coupland

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication—it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness—it is all that I have—and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. —Franz Kafka

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. —Maya Angelou

Love is something far more than a desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. —Bertrand Russell

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. —Kurt Vonnegut

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. —F. Scott Fitzgerald

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. —Lois Lowry

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. —Albert Schweitzer

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. —Norman Cousins

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. —Arthur C. Clarke

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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. —Pauline Phillips

Loneliness is never crueler than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. —Germaine Greer

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one or two may still leave you feeling lonely. —Gretchen Rubin

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. —Charlotte Brontë

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. —Alexander Theroux

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. —Edna St. Vincent Millay

I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. —Augusten Burroughs

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. —Waylon Jennings

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Sometimes, I think the pain I feel is a big reminder that I am still alive.

Keep on telling yourself to always be kind because you do not know what each people are going through, they might be fighting battles even worse than you.

I hate it most when some people tell me that they miss me but they do not even do anything to get in touch with you, they just like to feel guilty about it.

And then suddenly, my whole world crumbled to pieces and you were not there to help me pick it up.

I feel so broken and I do not know what I should do about it.

I do not see the point in screaming as I know that no one will listen anyway.

If you plan on making me cry, then you better be responsible enough to wipe my tears away.

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The past will only keep on making me sad so I plan on never bringing it again with me.

I can’t let you go because without you, I just hate everything about being lonely.

I personally think that there is no point in crying especially since the moment you left me alone.

However, I never gave up, I just want to rest a bit and see if you even care about me just a bit.

I keep my smile on all the time so that no one will figure out just how sad and lonely I really am on the inside.

Listen, I hate to let go of the people that are important to me but they always seem to be one step ahead and leave me without notice.

Sometimes, I just want to know that I am at least important to someone.

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True enough, it seems that being lonely is one of the hardest things a person can go through in life.

The loneliest people in the world are those with kind hearts and those who always seem to smile and pretend that they are fine.

Is it too much to ask to be happy without expecting a moment of sadness to follow it?

Being lonely is not being alone, you can be in a big crowd of people and still feel lonely despite it.

If you really did love me why does it feel like you did not?

It is way easier to tell myself that I do not care than admit to people that leaving you killed me.

I wish that someday, you realize the importance of what you have let go.

The worst feeling in this world is being ignored by the person you treasure the most in this world.

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Don’t you dare judge me from how you see me because you do not know the real me and you never will?

It feels so sad to see the people you know become the people you used to know.

And then there are times when you will see that life is bound to end anyway so why not make it earlier.

It hurts, my heart does but I guess I must be thankful to it for you. Because it has made me stronger.

One day someone will come to prove to you that all that came before him are just boys whereas he is a man.

I want you to know that I am still here waiting for the day that you will come back and tell me that you still do love me even after all the years we were far apart from each other.

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If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

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Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

I love to be alone. However, I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.”

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands to knock on the doorsteps of our hearts.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

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The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.

Don’t go away. I don’t want to be alone. I can’t stand being alone.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self, but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

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I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

Don’t feel alone, because there is always someone out there who loves you more than you can imagine.

Sometimes it’s better to be alone, no one can hurt you that way.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

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[getsuruito]

you are the sun and i am just the planets, spinning around you, spinning around you.

[getsuruito]

and i’m yours, til the earth starts to crumble, and the heavens roll away