#And I know that this life isn’t safe but it's wild and it's free...Rose Dewitt Bukater {Muse}

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What Kind of Love Are You?

Love as the Dawn

Pastel, saccharine and hopeful, your love rises slow to greet the day. It tiptoes on doe feet and blossoms bit by bit, petal by petal. Love is new to you, isn’t it? A fresh discovery in a world you do not quite understand. Your love loves with bated breaths. Your love swoons and sighs and lingers under awnings. Your love romanticizes. Your love aches as tenderly as a bruise. You’re swollen with desire and idealizations. The perfect kiss, the perfect touch, the perfect partner in life. Your love is wide-eyed and innocent, naive and pristine and oh, so very easily breakable. Being loved by you is to be loved by a child, by a lamb, wooly-eyed and helpless. Oh. I really hope it lasts.

Tagging: You - please steal it Tagged by: @sirensought

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His laugh is as if music fills the air, and Rose can't even begin to try and help the way her painted lips beam up into a smile. It had been a tune she'd loved so much, ever since she first heard it as a child and as he got older it only became more fitting and easy to listen to. Even more than that, rarely did the socialite ever hear that laughter now- unless he was with her. His duties had become more demanding, the weight of his title becoming heavier. She despised it for him, because she knew all too well how easy it was to stop laughing now. While she didn't have the title of a princess nor the responsibilities that came with it, there were still far too many expectations and rules. Too much pressure. And it was suffocating.

"You and your mermaid tales," Rose scoffs, her tone teasing, but her smile remains. The truth was she loved to hear his stories. "Why would one want to live under the sea anyways? No, I would much rather have wings. To soar to wherever it is I please, just like a bird." Her arm slips from his for just a moment as she demonstrates the motion. "I would fly so far and so fast no one would be able to catch me." Her grin remains as she takes his arm again.

"Besides, don't mermaids lure sailors to the water then drag them down into the depths of the ocean? I wouldn't dare touch any 'mermaid treasures' in case it would upset them. Might I remind you that you're out at sea quite a bit?"

"i think you've even used it against me before." he teases playfully, letting out a chuckle. "ah well, if i could trade my strength and knowledge for just an ounce of that kind of confidence, i wouldn't even hesitate. but perhaps with your confidence and my strength we make a better team than we would individually."

another laugh escapes from him as she tugs at his arm. "alright, alright! you're right, i do not want to face the wrath of either of our mothers." he slides the arms she'd been holding around hers, linking them as they begin down the cliffs en route to the beach. "i wonder if we'll find anything interesting along the shore. maybe some mermaid treasures." he grins, turning to glance over at rose. 

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[ rainfall ] sender finds receiver out alone in the rain ( for rose! )

@sirensought

Blue eyes look out over vast blue of the ocean, a sight so unforeign to her and yet she could hardly stomach it anymore. Not when she'd been surrounded on that sinking ship by that same vast nothingness. Screams of men, women, and children all out into the air with nothing around. No one to save them, no one to even hear it. No one but those lifeboats just a couple hundred yards away.

Yet Jack, Jack had saved her. He'd saved her life over and over again, and she couldn't return the favor. He'd refused to get on the floating piece of wood and she hadn't tried hard enough to get him on it...and she hadn't even seen him take his last breath. She hadn't even known.

She couldn't save him. And she would never forgive herself for it.

The rain brought no chill to her bones. The chill was already there, a permanent marking from the sinking of the Titanic. And she'd been so lost in her thoughts that Rose hadn't even heard Eric approach behind her, not until he said her name for the second time.

"....Forgive me....I'm sorry. I was just....I was just distracted with my thoughts. Do you...do you need something?"

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There's a heat to her cheeks, surely mimicking the color of her name, but Rose gives a small laugh and a shake of her head, fiery curls bobbing around her features at the motion. "My mother always said I had a stubbornness that she could never bring me from. But of course....you've seen all that." Her head shakes once again.

"You may not be good at confrontations, but believe me, your strength and knowledge are enough of a courageousness that, truthfully, I envy it."

Rose grins then reaches for the Prince's arm, tugging at it. "Come on. You are supposed to be taking me to the beach before our mothers discover we're not on the grounds."

@inn0cencestrained said — ; i wanted to be brave. i wanted to be more like you. (From Rose)

his eyes widen at her admission. from what he'd just witnessed, there was no need for her to be like him. sure, he was brave— but his bravery came from a different place; if and when it was needed he could spring into action. but this had been different, she stood her ground, demanded the respect she deserved. he never would have imagined she'd been trying to muster up bravery, every word spoken was said with confidence. like it had just come naturally. 

"like me?" he questions with a scoff. "i don't think i could have done anything like that— i'm not good at confrontation." a sheepish laugh escaping him. "but that— that was truly inspiring! i might need to take a lesson or two from you!"