#OTP: Love Is A Flame – Neither Timid Nor Tame ( Saoirse x Cai )

[forsakenmyths]

💏 - Cai and Saoirse

…out of envy or jealousy.

( @erasethestars )

Pregnancy was interesting and frustrating.

Saoirse was having to adjust to her body not being herown.  She naturally ran a higher temperaturebetween being a wolf and having fire magic.  That, combined with pregnancy, was leading toher feeling like she was roasting in most outfits.  So, now, her typical outfit was a pair of cutoffs and a tank top.  Bras were out forthe moment, because her breasts were too fucking tender.  Not that Caiden seemed to complain.

That night, she had been sitting at the bar.  She needed a change of space, taking a breakfrom the program she had been coding all day. Cai brought her food, and he kept her juice topped off all night.  They stole conversations when he wasn’t toobusy.  It was usually her showing himsomething hilarious she found on her phone, or a meme that her brother had senther.  

The evening rush came in, which meant Caiden was busier, butthat was okay.  Saoirse worked onfinishing her fries, thankful that her stomach seemed to be accepting the meal.  Thank the gods.  She was already over being unable toeat.  She loved food too damned much, andshe felt as it she was always burning through energy.

After about an hour of groups of people cycling in and outof the bar top to their tables, Saoirse looked up, trying to get Caiden’sattention.  Some woman was talking to himnon-stop, keeping him from moving on to other customers.  Saoirse could see him tensing his jaw as hecleaned glasses as he pulled them from the skin to put away.  She never understood how people couldn’t tellwhen they were annoying someone so badly. Now, Saoirse was a horrible flirt, but she knew it.  She admitted it.  She also knew when she was pissing someoneoff.

“Leave him alone,” she muttered under her breath, goldeneyes finding the woman.  Jealousy hadnever been a large part of the wolf’s personality, but she was starting tolearn that hormones could bring about new things.

When the woman continued to annoy Cai, Saoirse stood, walkingaround to stand in front of where her husband was.  One of the regulars was there, letting her inso she was next to the aggravating flirt. Now, Saoirse was naturally tall – almost even with Caiden’s height, butshe still stood on the bottom of the bar so that she could lean over it.  Caiden looked up, eyes bright when he sawher.  Saoirse’s long fingers wrappedaround the front of his shirt, pulling him into a rather deep kiss – right infront of the eyes of the other woman, and the entire bar.  She drew that kiss out with a playful tug athis lip with her teeth, turning to look at the woman then.

There were, of course, murmurs, and a huff from thewoman.  “He is married.  He is here to serve you drinks, not to flirtwith you.  Not to go home with you.  Not to kiss you.  Get the point, and leave him the fuckalone.  Okay?  He is more than some pretty bartender.”  

Yes, she knew she had probably over spoke.  But, she was tired of people only seeingCaiden for his looks.  He was a lotmore than that, and well, pregnancy hormones were apparently the rush ofcourage she needed to make a point about it.

Looking back a Caiden, her cheeks were burning, highlightingher freckles.  “I love you.”  And she giggled, letting her head fall downinto her hands.

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They spent time with family, but they also made time for themselves that holiday season.  Saoirse enjoyed the hunt through the house for her pikachu things, loving everyone one of them.  For the first time, she wanted to get Caiden a gift she knew he would love -- something he would adore for years to come.  Torin had helped her in the search for the perfect guitar, and it had taken her months to settle on the right one.  She had written a note, tucked it into the lid of the guitar’s case: “You help me more than you will ever knew.  You and your love has been the missing piece, the thing I never knew I needed.  I will be your wife.  Your wife.  I love the sound of that.  Yours.  I love that.  I love you.  Thank you.”

Saoirse and Cai - Musical Holidays

( For @indissoluta )

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Closer to the Edge (Closed Verse)

Saoirse stumbled across Caiden on her travels.  She had never intended to make roots -- not yet; but no matter what, she seemed to always returned to him.  Friendship began, and that, over time, grew into more.  To Saoirse, Caiden was her family, her world, in many senses.  She had lost so much, and she was terrified to lose him or his sister.  Saoirse mad an effort to settle as much of her life as she could, making a home with Caiden, and eventually, an engagement.

Grady had a history of never being in the right place at the right time, if you asked him.  He had not been in time to save his family.  He had not been able to save the woman he had grown to love nearly a century later, or her son.  Those were situations that left a permanent mark on Grady’s mind, shaping him to become the fighter that he is now, the firefighter.  He had little idea that meeting Caidence would lead him to the sister he had long thought had been lost, the sister is pained him to speak about, along with his three brothers.

This is a closed verse with @indissoluta since she and I love pain and feels.  The ships are set in this verse, and Saoirse and Grady’s back story is intact.  They are both wolves, both O’Riley family.  Grady dropped the surname, using his middle name as his last name to protect any of those searching for any survivors of that day back in the 1700′s, unknowing that his family lived.

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Icon thingy for Saoirse about Caiden

Anonymously or not, send my muse another muse’s name and they can only reply with an icon summing up their feelings about them! ( @indissoluta )

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Send “&” for a LOVING text. - Saoirse to Caiden

( @indissoluta )

[ Text: Rockruff ] You are at work.  Which means you won’t get this for a bit.

[ Text: Rockruff ] I love you.  I also made you pizza, no tomato sauce.

[ Text: Rockruff ] I also baked cookies.  I got bored.

[ Text: Rockruff ] I also missed you.  

[ Text: Rockruff ] I should get back to work.  

[ Text: Rockruff ] I promise I will sleep soon.

[ Text: Rockruff ] I will at least be in bed when you get home.

[ Text: Rockruff ] Come snuggle with me?  I’ll be in just one of your shirts.

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Mood Board: Life with Firecracker

( Saoirse and Caiden - @indissoluta )

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✆ - Caiden to Saoirse

Send ✆ for my muse to reveal how they’d describe yours to their friends when they aren’t around.

( @indissoluta - a taste inside Firecracker’s life)

Saoirse had gone out to Simon’s ranch for the weekend.  All the boys were there, so she could finallyspend time with them.  The four of themhadn’t been in the same spot in years, so it was a welcomed chance to catchthem up on the happenings of her life. Eoghan had always been closest to Saoirse, so he had already heard hergushing about Caiden.  Simon had heard,in passing, and he gave a grin each time the red head spoke.  That was Simon for you – quiet andcaring.  He had softened some in his age,and he was not as cold as he seemed at first glance.

It was Torin that caught her alone that night, pulling herlaptop away from her.  Saoirse, ofcourse, growled at him.  “I’m working,Air Boy.”  

He sat the laptop on the coffee table, screen still open sothat her work wasn’t lost.  “I want totalk to you, Swish.”  She turned,shooting him a glare.  “Nothing bad.  Swear it. I want to know more Caiden.  Inever pictured you the type to get engaged to a guy.  You always seemed…against marriage.”

The wolf sighed, leaning back on the couch.  “You know I was…back when we grew up.  I knew being the only O’Riley daughter, Icould have been pushed into a marriage. I didn’t want that..”  She ran herfingers through her hair, tucking it behind her ear, moving so that she wascurled up beside Torin.  “Caiden came outof left field, Tor.  I ended up leavinghim for a bit, all in the name to keep him safe, but – “

“You couldn’t stay away?” He asked with a grin that was full of mischief and care.  A combination that Torin was known for.

“No.  He got into sometrouble, and I came to bail him out. Neither of us are perfect, but he has a good heart.  He does everything he can to protect his twinsister.  He is loving, funny, goofy – he makesme laugh.  He also makes sure I don’twork too much.  He is really good, Torin,and I love him.  A lot.  I want to make that promise to him, to be hisforever.  All the storybook happily everafter stuff…”  She giggled at herselfthen, feeling the way she was blushing.  “Willyou by my maid of honor?”  Saoirsequestioned with a smirk.

Torin grinned, laying his head down in her lap.  “I would love to be.  You know I never miss a party.  You know, your dad would be happy for you,Swish.  I know it.”  His voice softened with those words, but heknew she needed to know that.

“I wish he could be there. Tristan said he would stand in if we did the typical wedding stuff.  I don’t even know what we are doing just yet.”  

Torin took her hand, kissing her.  “I’m happy for you, Swish.”

“Thank you, Air Boy. You should come back with me…meet him. Just…no flirting with him,” she teased, sniffling softly.  Her fingers tugged playfully at his curls,and he just laughed.  

“I promise, I’ll behave.”

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" She has a boyfriend. He came to the bar." Caiden muttered to Saoirse before flopping against her, a bottle of rootbeer in his hand and a pout on her face. " I don't like it, Firecracker. I don't like it one little bit."

( @indissoluta )

She grinned, doing her best to not giggle at Caiden’s reaction to his twin’s new love interest.  “She can date, Cai, and why don’t you like him?  Did you get a bad vibe from him?”  The humor in her expression faded then, because Caidence was like a sister to her, in every sense.  Who cared about blood?  “I know how to hide a body if we need to…”  She added, brow raised.

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✿ Saoirse to Caiden

Nose Kiss

( @indissoluta )

Caiden loved to work out.  Saoirse had told him more than once that he didn’t need to, but she understood that it was something that he loved to do.  Just like she loved to go on runs as a human.  

He was laid on the floor, doing sit ups.  Saoirse had placed herself on his feet, providing a counter weight for each of his motions upwards.  Her chin was resting against his knees, while her arms wrapped around his calves.  She might not have understood how he could love working out as much as he did, but it didn’t stop the support that she had for him.

“You are unnatural,” she teased, with a mischief smirk as he came up for another completed sit up.  “Please, never, ever change.”  The firestarter added, placing a kiss to the very tip of Caiden’s nose, smiling at him.  One of those smiles that lit up her golden brown eyes, and every feature of her freckled face.  

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“I think I wanna marry you” - Caiden to Saiorse

( @indissoluta )

She looked at him, stunned.  It wasn’t that she didn’t like the idea of marriage; especially marriage with Caiden.  She loved Caiden more than she had ever thought possible.  He had found her, locked away from the world, because it was the only way that she could protect herself from being hurt again.  Caiden had found his way into her heart, and there was no way that Saoirse would want their lives to change.

Saoirse had been born into a time where marriages were arrange, and they were rarely sought out from love alone.  It had been something that had soured her to the idea of marriage.  Life and time had changed her view point, but who would ever want to be with a wolf like her?  Mortals would die -- withering before her eyes; and she had a distrust of other supernaturals.

That was until Caiden.

He had changed everything.  He had done so much for her life, for opening her eyes, and she failed at telling him just how important he was to her.  “Do you mean that?  Lifetime with me?  A red head that isn’t as together as she seems...”  Her voice threatened to crack, but not in a bad way.  “Because, I love you, and I’m terrified sometimes that I’m too much...that I will scare you off, or that I will frustrate you, and all I know...if you are the one person that’s taught me how to live again....to live for me...for love.  I’m bloody rambling, but you know that I’m your girl.  No matter what.”

She walked over to him, resting her forehead against his own.  “I love you, Caiden Remus.  In all the nonsense of my life, you are one of the few things that has made sense.”

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Ѡ - to Saoirse from Caiden

Send an “Ѡ” for my muse’s reaction to being sent accidental nudes.

( @burymeinprettylies )

Saoirse had gone into the city to turn in some work that she had done.  She found herself missing Caiden.  It wasn’t surprising, given that she hadn’t been away from him in months.  Work had to be done, which meant the two day trip into the city for meetings.  

She had her phone in hand, checking on her Neko Atsume cats when the text from Caiden came through.  It surprised her -- the images that she had seen were some of what she had seen before, but some that she had only imagined.  It was Caiden, and it made her miss him even more.

[ Text: Rockruff ] Hot damn...uhm...missing me?  Because, I miss you.

[ Text: Rockruff ] This train home needs to go faster.  You..wow.  

[ Text: Rockruff ] Speechless.  The good kind, that is.

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Merry Christmas, Caiden!

( @burymeinprettylies )

Saoirse had enjoyed every moment that she had been by Caiden’s side.  There was no more time apart.  They traveled about, hotel to hotel -- wherever the road had taken them.  It was different -- being with him.  A good different.  A needed different.

She had waited until he stepped into the bathroom to shower so that she could bring out his presents.  There was a plush toaster that she couldn’t resist buying him.  It was a joke, but an adorable one.  The other, more meaningful gift was a simple jar with the word Home written on the front in paint pen.  

Cai,

Thank you for bringing this year to close on one of the happiest notes that I’ve known in awhile.  Now, you might be wondering what the jar is for.  I thought that, together, we could work to save up money for a place.  For us.  Together.  Somewhere that we could make ours.  

No matter what, thank you for giving this wolf one of the happiest years of her life.  Thank you for accepting my quirks, no matter what.  

Love,

Firecracker

Yes, Saoirse had money, but that was simply a good backup.  There was something to earning, to saving, and doing that together.

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Cai and Saoirse do the "Boyfriend/Girlfriend buys my costume" challenge because they saw it on youtube and thought it'd be fun. But when Cai pulls out a sexy costume he quickly tosses it aside and says "Not for public just for bedroom" and goes back to showing Saoirse what he got her.

//Completely accepted!

( @indissoluta )

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You know, if it's true what they say that you'll never love someone until you love yourself, Saoirse, then odds are Caiden is never going to love you. You should just move on.

( @indissoluta )

Her eyes narrowed at the warning from the grey face.  In that light, Caiden should have the same worry, because Saoirse had never loved herself very much.  “I will say this, and only this -- stay out of things that you do not know or understand.”

She loved Caiden, and she knew that he cared for her in the same way.  Even if they didn’t always say those three very common words.  Actions spoke a lot louder than words when you had lived lives such as Saoirse and Caiden had.