#creedance:dimitri008

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@lungsandlips sent: ❛  i love you. i'm in love with you.  ❜ - Dimitri & Cree (cause dimitri hasn't had the balls to actually say it yet)

It took a moment for the words to register, his heart trying to beat its way out of his chest while he simply stared at his boyfriend for maybe a few seconds too long. The words "thank gods" were all he could manage as he pulled Dimitri into a kiss, needing that extra time to let the words really sink in.

"I love you too," he murmured when the kiss broke. "So fucking much."

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"You say that like we know how to behave in the current one," he pointed out, a playful smirk tugging on the corners of his lips. "Or the counter, for that matter."

He touched his face tenderly, entirely relaxed in the moment. "On this, it's pretty safe to assume." Cree wanted Dimitri to believe that they could and would have this whole life to spend together, even if Creedance did end up being on the less than immortal side of the spectrum. He couldn't imagine going through the time he had without Dimitri with him.

"Thank Khaos. I was worried I was coming off a little corny there."

"Oh we are not going to know how to behave in a bigger bed," he chuckled, very fond of the idea of making a home together with Cree. And that smile? Dimitri would do anything to see it every single day.

"I just didn't want to assume I'm ever guaranteed another day, y'know? Makes each one I do get a gift. But you're not just building us a cabin you're putting down real roots for us. You're choosing here, you're choosing me and I know that isn't easy." Both of them still had a lot of baggage to unpack but they weren't letting it get in the way of what they had together. That meant the world to Dimitri.

"That's the most romantic thing anyone has ever said to me."

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"Good thing because I've grown very attached to you and I would hate to get a bigger bed and then be alone in it," he teased, nose crinkling a little as he gave a big, cheesy smile.

The cabin was just the start of everything he wanted to do and knowing that Dimitri loved it, loved him made it all worth it. It made every hard choice he had made over the years worth it because it had gotten him here, to this point, with this man in his arms.

Creedance wouldn't trade this for anything.

"I love you and I every future I picture has you in it. How could I possibly not plan for that?"

"You don't have to find out," he assured. Dimitri had no intention of going anywhere and would do his best to make this work. A stark difference between this relationship and the last as he didn't expect fate to just be kind to him. He would earn Cree's love every day. Wanted to. There was no expectation that this would just be easy.

But damn if it didn't feel amazing.

"I love you," he whispered again simply because he wanted to, because he'd been holding it in, before leaning in to kiss Creedance once more.

"You're out there planning this future for us, showing me that you really want me in your life. Putting me back together without even trying. It was time you knew how I really feel."

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"I don't think I would have known what to do had you ever left," he admitted, relieved to know that Dimitri had felt it so quickly too, whatever that spark had been.

It had made him understand what some of the others in the family had meant when they said sometimes things like that just happen. Hell, even his mom had admitted there had been something about his dad that she had been drawn to the day they had met, even if she had tried to fight it at first. Creedance had just never thought it would happen to him.

And then Dimitri just wandered into his life and it was like the world had exploded in colors he hadn't been able to see before.

Having given his heart away once only to have it thrown back at him unexpectedly, Dimitri had been wary of ever saying those words again. Part of him thought he might not. Then he met Creedance and things changed.

"I know," he whispered, afraid to break the magic of this moment. "Just wanted to protect it for as long as I could." Cree's attempts to show him how he felt had not gone unnoticed and played a huge part in making him comfortable enough to finally say the words.

"I found home the night I met you. Why do you think I never left? This is where I'm supposed to be."

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"Darlin', you never have to be afraid to tell me anything," he murmured sweetly, hands still cradling Dimitri's face.

He understood though, his own fear of rejection having him show his love without ever saying the words. The cabin, the stars, all of it had been his way of expressing that emotion while being too afraid to name it. But he didn't want there to be any fear between them, not when they had reached this point.

"I think I started fallin' in love with you the night we met."

He'd been terrified of saying it out loud even though it was always on the tip of his tongue. Saying it made it real, made it something he couldn't protect anymore. But every time Cree looked at him he found it harder and harder not to say until finally it just burst out of him. Now he just had to trust that the other would take that precious little something and truly protect it.

For a moment he didn't think his words were heard but before he had a chance to run through all the potential negative possibilities he was being pulled into a kiss and suddenly everything felt right. Cree said it back, said those words he longed to hear and damnit he believed him.

"I was so scared to tell you."