#feat: kiera & flora.

[lucidsolar]

starter for: flora lewis.

“when did you know you were gay...for sure?” / @lucidlunar​

[lovecharged]

starter for @tkachukmatthew

"...do you have anything you've never told anyone? even marsh..." the words trail off playfully, no malice behind them. just pure, unadulterated curiosity and an urgent need to know everything and anything about the woman she's just so happened to fall madly in love with.

[lovecharged]

kiera kisses her back, arms coiling around her waist, tugging her closer as she deepens the kiss. self-restraint is all she'd known for months now, and it had been painful. although she was well aware it was all her fault, her choice, she'd convinced herself it was the right one. she didn't want flora to settle for her, and she didn't want to be someone that flora settled for. that's what she'd convinced herself she'd been, even if she desperately desired being proved wrong. "i've missed you too," she murmurs breathlessly into her mouth, fingers clinging at her hip; the urgency, the longing all evident in every touch, in every kiss, in every word, in everything. "missed you too fucking much, flo. everything about you."

she definitely hadn't known for certain what she was going to do or say once she got here but it's going well right now. kiera isn't telling her to get lost, which is the most important thing. flora chokes out a breathless laugh and presses a kiss to kiera's mouth. "thank god," she whispers, nudging their noses together. it's been a painful amount of time, the months they've been apart. she has no idea how to even summarise how painful they've been except to say it felt like a hot knife twisting in her gut each time they saw each other and flora was reminded that she lost the best person in her life. the love of her life. she strokes her fingers across her cheeks and gazes at her for a long moment. "i've missed you so much."

[lovecharged]

"you have no idea how much you mean to people, flo." the words fall breathlessly, and with a dash more intensity than she'd had in mind. still, she meant them and kiera wouldn't dare take them back. sighing softly, her arms wrap around the other woman's frame, tugging her closer to her own, practically into it as fingers tangled within her hair. "nobody can be happy if you shut yourself off. you're sitting there, thinking everyone's doing fine without you but all they're doing is trying to…find a way to get you back, in one way or another." she's speaking from experience, fingers slipping to stroke along her cheek once their foreheads meet. "it's okay. i took your silence as..indifference when i shouldn't have done that. i never stopped being in love with you, either. even if i did…try, because i thought…" you didn't love me back. it goes without being said, so she refuses to make the woman feel worse. "i couldn't stop thinking about you though. hoping you'd…arrive at my door, or come to marsh and alec's when me and q were there…that you wouldn't stop thinking about me after you'd seen me peform in something." it's a lot to expose, but she figures if she expects flora to do that, the least she can do is the same.

"in fairness, you are creative with everything you do." when kiera gets herself cosy, flora can't help but reach out to stroke her fingers across her cheek and down to her neck. just touching her at all feels like something that she shouldn't ever take for granted again. and she certainly will not. "i think it helps that we were there for so much of what happened, you know? like, my family don't know barely anything about the things i got up to. but marshall was always there." and she doesn't think she would still be here now if he wasn't, so she would never be able to regret that. "god, i don't know. me either! well, that might not be true. he didn't approve of me letting you go. or not taking care of myself properly after." she pulls a face and shifts closer to tuck her face into kiera's neck, hands wriggling under the blanket to wrap her arms around her waist. "so that might be the only thing he's ever shaken at his head at me for. letting go of the one person who has made me happier than anyone else. not taking care of her properly. not showing her that she is my entire world, the person i want to be with more than anything and anyone else." flora lifts her head to look at kiera, resting their foreheads together. "i didn't stop being in love with you for one second. i wish i had allowed myself a second to do something about it sooner. i'm sorry i didn't come back to you sooner, baby."

[lovecharged]

"what can i say? i'm very creative with my line of questioning..." brows waggle, and she shifts to get a little more comfortable, tugging the blanket over her frame. the sun is disappearing into the horizon and there's a comfortable chill in the air now, and she harbours no desire to take their conversation inside. "i can't imagine it, having someone know every, tiny thing about me. even q doesn't." she chews at her bottom lip, throwing the other woman a thoughtful smile. "you never did anything even he wouldn't approve of? even if right now i'm struggling to imagine what the hell that'd be."

"huh." her head tilts and she considers the question, not at all knowing the answer to that. there isn't really much she hasn't told marshall so she shifts a little, watching kiera as she tries to figure out the answer. "you know, i really don't know. i've never even thought about that before."

[lovecharged]

eyes widen as she watches her ex closely, and she hadn't really known what to expect -- hadn't set herself up for even the slight possibility of disappointment. of course, she isn't disappointed. leaning into the other woman's touch and allowing her eyes to close to a gentle close as she breathes her in. "of course i'll have you. i don't want to spend my life without you, either." hands raise to cradle flora's hands, thumbs stroking against her skin, pressing a kiss on her palm. "i love you so much."

"i love you. and spending the rest of my life without you would be such a miserable existence and i don't want to do that. i want to be with you now and forever." and so she takes a chance and reaches out to cradle kiera's face, leaning closer to rest their foreheads together. "if you'll have me, i want to be yours for the rest of our lives."

[lovecharged]

up in the air feels like an understatement, but kiera chooes not to remark upon it. far too curious about the next few words that escape flora's lips. that seems like the important part, and she'll be damned if she beats around the bush about it. "oh...what realisation did you have?"

starter for: kiera riley.

"hi. i know we are a bit up in the air right now. i just... i had a realisation last night and i couldn't really... i couldn't ignore it." / @racylove